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By Allison PercivalCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Every college student fantasizes about landing that dream job after graduation; however, for a couple of SFA students that dream is already becoming a reality.

Hospitality majors Shayna Borhaug of Lake Dallas and Cordero Chavira of Jacksonville have both scored their first jobs in the industry helping to coordinate this year’s Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

Borhaug is working for Dallas Fan Fares, a global event coordinating company that also is the official corporate hospitality group for the NFL. She will be stationed at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, NFL’s official hotel, and will be helping give two of Fan Fares’ special clients the ultimate Super Bowl experience.

She said besides attending the big game the clients have chosen to spend some time golfing, relaxing at a spa and dining at various Dallas restaurants.

“Their happiness is my ultimate goal, and myself and the staff of Dallas Fan Fares are working around the clock all day, every day to ensure this,” Borhaug said.

Borhaug said she started her career by interning at Dallas Fan Fares in the summer of 2010. A friend of her mother’s worked for the company, and because it sounded interesting, Borhaug applied for an interview, which lead to her internship.

“Without the experience of my event-planning and customer-service classes at SFA, I could easily find myself lost in this environment,” Borhaug said. “But because I have this knowledge, I am confident, and my company is confident in me as well.”

Borhaug will graduate in December 2011 and go to work full time for Dallas Fan Fares.

Chavira will be volunteering at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport as a concierge and will be giving Super Bowl attend-ees “the skinny” on all of North Texas hotels, VIP parties and tourist areas.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be able to say I helped out at the Super Bowl,” Chavira said. “I want to gain as much experience as possible and enjoy the moment.”

Chavira applied online after first hearing about the oppor-

tunity from Dr. Carl Pfaffenberg, associate professor of human sciences, in August. He will be one of the more than 10,000 volunteers helping Super Bowl Sunday run smoothly.

“I was told to expect anywhere up to 100 private jets and several commercial lines filled with Super Bowl at-tendees,” Chavira said. “I had to do a lot of the searching for a hotel since nearly all of them have been booked for months.”

Gaining work experience, meeting new people and taking hundreds of pictures are only a few items on Chavira’s to-do list for the Super Bowl. He’s hoping to get his name out there and acquire more knowledge to open his own chain of hotels after graduation in May 2012.

“I want to turn the hotel industry around, and hope-fully, from this experience I can make that happen,” said Chavira.

While these two students are just getting started in the corporate world, 2010 hospitality graduate Phillip Mitchell is already working in the industry.

Mitchell is working for Legends Hospitality in Dallas and will be providing meals to both the Pittsburg Steelers and Green Bay Packers players before the game. He also will be serving food to the media and broadcast companies who will be working inside the stadium. He said he will be in charge of taking care of nearly 500 people.

“I’m very excited that the game is finally here,” Mitchell said. “I’ll get to actually watch the game while I’m working with the media.”

Mitchell originally was an intern for Legends Hospitality in June before he graduated in August. After he received his diploma, they offered him a full-time job. On a day-to-day basis, he gets to serve the Dallas Cowboys and cheerleaders, and coordinate everything from communicating with the press to working in the locker rooms.

Mitchell said all of his classes helped prepare him for his first job, and he’s always referencing the knowledge he learned as a student at SFA.

“If it weren’t for my classes and professors at SFA, I wouldn’t be where I am now,” Mitchell said. “Being able

to intern before graduation also gave me some experience to understand what I was in for.”

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SFA students go behind the scenes at the Super Bowl

By Moises HernandezSTAFF WRITER

With Super Bowl Weekend coming up SAA is bringing its yearly Super Bowl XLV party to SFA students once again.

Victoria Hogan, coordinator of this year’s event, described the party’s relocation to a newer and much roomier environment: “This semester is going to be a little different than the past couple of years. It’s no longer going to be in the movie theater. It’s going to be at the Campus Rec Center, and the atmo-sphere is going to be a lot different.”

Hogan said the change resulted from the recent partnership between SAA and the Campus Rec Center.

“We were originally going to do this at the movie theatre, but Campus Rec wanted to get involved, and they wanted to do stuff with us, too. They’re going to do Football

Trivia Questions.” The event will start at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Student Rec Center in the basketball courts.

“There’s going to be a Half-Time Football Skills Test,” Hogan said. “People who want to be involved will participate in throwing the football and running through tires. It’s a good way to get people hyped up for the second half of the game. We’re also doing a Pool Buy-In where you buy a square for a dollar. You can buy up to three and at the end of each quarter we’ll look at the score and whoever has that square will get a portion of the money that it’s in.”

The previous Super Bowl was projected in the Movie Theatre in the BPSC, but with new technology and more room, SAA has designed a view system unlike anything seen yet.

“The flat-screen TV in front of the Rec

Center is going to be inside the basketball court, and a projector will project the game on the wall,” Hogan said. “The TV is going to be used to show the two most spirited fans, one from the Packers and one from the Steelers. Whoever is most spirited will sit in front of the HD TV. The projector will then show the game on the wall. It’s going to be a tailgating atmosphere. Bring your chair and blankets and pillows.”

Students are encouraged to bring their tailgating equipment and attitudes when entering the Campus Rec grounds. Food and festivities will be provided.

“We’re going to be seeing a lot of rivalry and chats. We’re splitting up the gym, half and half, so there can be some competition going on. There will be food available, finger food and barbeque from SAA.”

Hogan predicts a great number of students

will enjoy this year’s event and is confident in the success of the putting the party in a new location.

“It’s a good way to get a lot of people on cam-pus together with their rivalry of football,” she said. “A lot of people come out for the food and the fun and they know SAA events are always a good time.”

Hogan explains her outlook on her own posi-tion in SAA.

“Being a second semester coordinator feels kind of overwhelming, but then it’s kind of a privilege to set up a huge event for the entire SFA campus. Just knowing that kind of pumps you up and makes you feel excited about putting on a good event and hoping it goes well in order for it to happen again next year.”

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Two hospitality majors will work as event coordinators for Super Bowl XLV events

On February 6, the AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers and NFC champion Green Bay packers will compete in the 45th annual edition of the Super Bowl. The game will be played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX.

By Jamie LivingstonSTAFF WRITER

Two SFA graduate students recently became national finalists in the Garnier Fructis Better Way video contest.

Aaron Harlan and Michael Tubbs are competing for the grand prize of $10,000.

Tubbs, also adjunct faculty, helped Harlan, an advertising design major and first-year graduate student, create a video that fit the contest’s theme.

“Our video is titled ‘The Better Way to Take Photos with Your Phone’”, Tubbs said, “It is a humorous solution for poor quality photos from a mobile phone.”

The idea came after the two stu-dent’s poked fun at the infomercial setting of Tubb’s phone.

Tubbs convinced Harlan to enter the contest, and the two filmed the video on the SFA campus.

“If we win, we will be receiving sev-eral things, but the most important prize will be confidence. The advertis-ing world is one that we are both inter-

ested in making careers in. This video, regardless of its sarcasm or scale, is a step in the right direction,” Harlan said.

Voting ended Jan 31 for the video, but both students plan to continue making videos and entering other con-tests throughout the spring.

Their video can be viewed on the official contest site www.break.com/thebetterway.

The winner of the contest will be an-nounced February 16.

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SAA readies for annual Super Bowl Party at Rec Center

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On 1-27-2011 an officer was dispatched to Steen Hall in reference to assault. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 1-27-2011 she was assaulted by a known person at Steen Hall.

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On 1-28-2011 an officer was dispatched to the Austin Building in reference to criminal mischief. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 1-28-2011 a subject damaged a fire extinguisher box inside the Austin Building. There is one suspect.

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Axes Down to Nacogdoches for hosting tonight’s TLC pro-gram Toddlers and Tiaras at the Hotel Fredonia. The idea of dolling up little girls and boys to put on a fashion show is fairly creepy. Here’s to ex-ploiting children!

Axes Down to the moron (s) who spray painted our brand new entrance sign. Can we not have anything nice without some jackwagon screwing it up for everybody else? Next time let’s just take a bundle of cash and flush it down the toilet. Same difference.

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‘The people highest up got the lowest self-esteem’

Not to sound too presidential, but America is the nation of Washington and Lincoln, Henry Ford and the Roosevelts, Carl Sagan, Welles, Faulkner, Dylan and Zuckerberg. Our history has no shortage of visionaries. These people knew what they wanted, and they went out and got it.

But lately I’m looking around, and I’m wondering, where did that can-do spirit go? Why is everyone so insecure and unsure of themselves? Where did the nation go who elected the big, brash Teddy Roosevelt presi-

dent? When did everything become so…existential?

I could blame it on a few things, but I’ll hone in on one: advertising. “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars,” Brad Pitt said in Fight Club. “But we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

I will say this: I buy Axe shower gel and body spray even though I already have per-fectly good Irish Spring bar soap, antiperspi-rant deodorant and cologne. Why do I buy the extra crap? Because guys think smelling good will get you laid. But honestly, after showering with hot water, soap and sham-poo and then applying post-shower deodor-ant and cologne, do you really think you’re going to stink?

Take these two companies for example: McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. Nobody needs

to see a McDonald’s or a Coke commercial to remind you that they’re still out there. You can’t drive five miles down the street without seeing those big golden arches. And you can’t go out to dinner without seeing Coke on the menu. They are two of the most recognized brands in the world. They’re not going anywhere.

But you want to know the dirty secret that no one wants to talk about? You want to know why commercials interrupt televi-sion every few minutes? Because if people are happy and don’t need anything, they’re not buying anything. And if we’re not buy-ing anything, the economy is stagnant. And if the economy is stagnant, then the whole machine goes down (as we’ve seen in the past couple of years.)

I hate to go back to Fight Club as it seems it has become the go-to film for every angry, disillusioned guy under the age of 25, but

damned if it doesn’t make some good points. You are not your job, you are not your car, you are not your apartment, and you are not your khakis. You are what you do, and you do what you are. You don’t need a new car to be happy, and your happiness shouldn’t depend on what you have compared to oth-ers. Some of the happiest people I’ve known didn’t have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. Sometimes it’s enough just to be free and alive.

Or to quote one of my favorite artists, Devin the Dude, “Anything is plenty, man, and is better than nothing at all.”

Garrett is an English senior from Mt. Pleasant, TX.

With the Packers vs. Steelers showdown fast approaching, football seems to be the theme of the week. For some, Super Bowl Sunday tends to be more about the food, friends and drinks than about the game itself. And foot-ball in general appears to be hot, sweaty guys running around in tight pants who seem to attract more attention from most men than long legs and a miniskirt.

So, let’s get real. For some of us, our inter-est in football only goes so far as Victoria’s Secret’s new NFL clothing line and watching Hank Baskett move Kendra and Baby Hank

all around the country on E!. Disclaimer: Not to say that some girls don’t

enjoy the game just as much as the male population, but there is an obvious disad-vantage because females did not grow up playing the sport as a child like most males.

So, just in case you find yourself on a date with Cowboys receiver Miles Austin, it might be helpful to know some of the basics.

One of the most basic of football terms is the “down.” One down refers to the time be-tween when the football is snapped (tossed back) to the quarterback (think Matt Schaub, Drew Brees and Brett Favre) and when the whistle is blown by the official.

Ever noticed those yellow lines that are constantly moving across the field when you are watching a game on TV? Well, those yel-low lines represent 10 yards toward the other team’s end zone (the place where all the celebration dances occur). A team has four chances, or four downs, to get to this 10-yard

mark. When watching the game in a stadium, the yellow lines are instead marked with two orange cones.

If a team does not move the football at least 10 yards in four downs, then the other team gets the ball. But if they do, then they have just accomplished what is known as a ‘first down,’ and they get four more chances to go another 10 yards. Dig it?

Let’s say SFA is playing Sam Houston, and the Lumberjacks have just received posses-sion of the ball. The Jacks are at first-and-10 because they are about to make their first attempt at gaining 10 yards.

If Jeremy Moses, Lumberjack quarterback, throws a short pass to Cordell Roberson, Lumberjack wide receiver, gaining them four yards, then SFA is now at second-and-6. The first number refers to what down the offense is on, and the second number is how many yards the team needs to get the 10 yards and start fresh with a new set of downs.

If SFA does not get past the original 10 yards in four plays, then Sam Houston will get possession of the ball — as if!

It’s simple to remember: The team on offense has four chances (downs) to get 10 yards toward the other team’s end zone. We can reference this by first stating which down the team is on and then the number of yards left until the 10-yard mark (or next first down).

By breaking down the basics, you can see that there is a method amidst the chaos and more to the Super Bowl than food and hilari-ous commercials. Until next time- “Keep yo’ hands off my momma, and keep yo’ hands off my Doritos!”

Bria is a senior from Nacogdoches major-ing in journalism/PR.

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By Stephanie SlabaughSPORTS EDITOR

Don’t let her size deceive you. Danielle Burchett, a 5-foot junior from Arlington, runs circles around her competition. Literally.

Saturday, Burchett broke the 12-year-old SFA women’s 800-meter record with a time of 2:13.41 to finish fourth at the Houston Indoor Invitational.

“I knew I broke the record instantly, because I had it memorized to the nearest hundredth sec-ond,” Burchett said with a big smile.

A two-time All-Southland-Conference runner, Burchett expects good results to be the common denominator at her races this season.

Her next mission is to conquer the 800-meter outdoor record.

“It’s not about being known. It’s a personal goal. I know I work hard, and when I break re-cords it shows,” Burchett said.

She credits her former teammate, SFA track and field coach, Brian Wall, for helping her un-derstand what she needs to do to get her time down.

“I asked her to do some things that she had never done before in her training,” Wall said. “Things that she probably didn’t think she could

do. She worked over the summer and on breaks. It wasn’t easy but it’s just a testament to her dedi-cation to being a champion. She’s number one in the SLC right now. It doesn’t mean we’re gonna win it, but it means we have a good chance if she continues to work hard.”

Burchett has been running the 800-meter since her junior high coach asked her to specialize. Over the years she has learned how to be a leader on her team and how deal with pre-race-jitters.

“Good positioning is important,” she said. “You have to start the race by getting out of the pack fast otherwise you’re stuck in a big group of girls. I fell once and it’s not fun. I didn’t know what to do. B Wall had to tell me to get up! My shoe and sock came off, but I finished the race.”

Off the track Bruchett couldn’t be happier at SFA and is majoring in accounting.

“I love numbers,” she said. “I want to be some-one’s personal accountant.”

Burchett plans on pursuing two master’s de-grees: the first in accounting at SFA and the second a master’s of business administration at another university.

Above all, Burchett thanks God, her parents and her boyfriend for being such a strong sup-port system.

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Small but mighty, Burchett breaks SFA record

By Mandy BowlingASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The SFA Ladyjack Tennis team opened its spring season with two dominant 7-0 wins over Trinity and St. Mary’s Saturday in San Antonio.

After a slow start in the morn-ing match, the girls got right back to action and took control of the game. The team came out winning sweeping all 12 singles matches and recording 10 shut-out sets.

Going into the 2010 Ladyjack season, two players received pre-season recognition under first-

year head coach Patrick Sullivan. As they prepare for the upcom-ing 2011 spring season, senior Andreea Enica received a #106 ranking nationally, while junior Alina Shazhko received a ranking for 12th in the Texas Region.

“This is the first time to have two girls in the rankings in pro-gram history, and it’s a good sign that things are heading in the right direction,” Sullivan said.

Enica’s ranking is the first na-tional ranking for SFA history and is one of the highest individual rankings for any Ladyjack tennis player. After her 2009-2010 play, she came off her junior campaign

with a recorded 10 wins.Shazhko received a regional

ranking at 12, the highest ranking ever to be achieved by a Ladyjack player. She finished her season last year playing No. 2 singles with 18 total wins.

“Just to have one of our players ranked in the top 15 is an award,” Sullivan said. “It is a huge boost for the girls and a great one for SFA.”

According to Sullivan, the Ladyjacks have the best fall sea-son ever, and even with the pres-sure, he, along with the girls, are ready for the spring season.

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Ladyjack Tennis dominates, receives recognition

Track star shares her keys to success

Junior Alina Shazhko is the SLC Women’s Tennis Player of the Week after leading the Ladyjacks to back-to-back season-opening shutout wins.

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Two-time All-Southland-Conference junior Danielle Burchett broke the 12-year-old women’s indoor 800-meter record Saturday with a time of 2:13.41.

Shazhko named SLC Player of the Week