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Chick-fil-A has also offered to
pay the organization for their
services and allow them to hold
fundraisers at the restaurants.
Weisgerber said she has been
trying to create a PRSSA chap-
ter since September 2006.
Both Weisgerber and Fox said
members of the chapter at
the University of Texas helped
the St. Edward’s chapter get
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es and networking are a really
important part of the job,”
she said. “By joining PRSSA,
the members will learn how to
interact with professionals and
begin to form these necessary
relationships.”
Fox also talked about the
value of this organization on
campus.
“This club will offer a great
insight to the world of pub-
lic relations and to those who
are communication majors and
are unsure of what route they
want to take in communica-
tion,” Fox said.
Weisgerber said she would like
to see the organization develop
into a small student-run public
relations firm. The organiza-
tion is currently searching for
local non-profit organizations
and small businesses which
need public relations help but
may not have the money to
hire professionals.
The organization has already
partnered with the local Chick-
fil-A restaurant, Fox said.
Students will help Chick-fil-A
expand its market to more col-
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(the spammers) will change
the way they’re doing things
to get past these filters,”
Chavez said
The technology department
is working to fight spammers,
but students and faculty can
also help contain the prob-
lem. E-mail users should
never open e-mails from users
they don’t know They also
should be cautious when giv-
ing people they don’t know
their e-mail address.
Students and technology
staff believe the struggle with
spam will continue because
spammers keep finding new
ways of infiltrating e-mail
accounts. The tug-of-war
between spammers and peo-
ple like Chavez is inevitable.
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once.
In the past, some e-mails
were falsely identified as spam
and the e-mails were never
received. In order to limit
this, the university’s technol-
ogy department allows cer-
tain e-mails to be sent with a
warning.
Chavez said when students
receive a message with the
word spam in it, it is because
the university’s filter has ana-
lyzed the message and deter-
mined that it is most likely
spam.
“Ninety-nine percent of the
time those are spam.” Chavez
said.
E-mails that are believed to
have a virus are never allowed
into the e-mail server.
Although the software pre-
vents many e-mails from
entering e-mail accounts,
students and faculty A
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The Public Relations Student
Society of America now has an
active chapter on campus.
Founded in 1968, the orga-
nization is a student society
that helps create relationships
between students and public
relations professionals. More
than 284 chapters of PRSSA
operate at universities and col-
leges around the country.
While waiting for official
approval from Student Life,
students are recruiting mem-
bers and planning events for
next semester.
Sophomore Hilary Fox, the
president of the organiza-
tion, said speakers slated to
attend the Nov 27 meeting
were expected to discuss their
experience in the public rela-
tions field.
“This will help us see how
we can, collectively, become a
great public relations organiza-
tion,” Fox said.
Corinne Weisgerber, an assis-
tant professor of communica-
tions and faculty advisor to the
university’s PRSSA, said the
organization will help students
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Edward’s has done some
events with them in the past
and many St. Edward’s stu-
dents volunteer at the home.
“For many of these resi-
dents, this could be their only
time out for the holidays and
it could be a memory they
keep forever,” Elsey said. “It
is our chance to give to oth-
ers, and help them have a
wonderful time at our uni-
versity We hope to continue
our relationship with them
in coming years and in future
events.”
Service has long been a
part of the St. Edward’s tra-
dition. One of the reasons
for hosting the Monte Siesta
Christmas Fiesta is to try to
get more students involved
with service during the holi-
day season.
“There has always been a
service project during the
week of Festival of Lights,
but many students have not
known about it,” Elsey said.
“We are trying to make it
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“UT has had an established
PRSSA club for over 50 years
and their work and experience
will be of great use to the
birth of the St. Ed’s chapter of
PRSSA,” Fox said.
For more information, con-
tact Weisgerber at corinnew@
stedwards.edu.
still were embraced,” Larkin
said.
Larkin said that information
about St. Edward’s spread by
word of mouth through stu-
dents, and that 10 or 15 stu-
dents started coming every
year.
“Most of our alum from that
part of the world came to St.
Edward’s between the mid 70s
up to f)lss,n Larkin said. “We
still have some that come, but
not as many because immi-
gration requirements have
become more difficult.”
Larkin said he hopes this
second visit will encourage
stronger ties with the alumni
chapter.
“Different things happened
kids.”
Larkin said a
small group of
Bahraini stu-
dents found
their way to
central Texas.
“They found
that it was a
welcoming
place, and the
fact that they
were Muslim
and this was a
Catholic insti-
tution didn’t
matter; they
easier for students to give to
the community during the
holidays and figured bringing
a service project to campus
would be a great way to do
so.”
Elsey said she believes that
the Festival of Lights is a time
when students can appreciate
a semester coming to an end
and look back on the good
times they had.
“It is a celebration and all
should join together in these
events, meet new people and
say goodbye before going
home for the Christmas
break,” she said.
The Monte Siesta Christmas
Fiesta will be held in the
Ragsdale Mabee Ballrooms.
For more information about
the event or other Festival of
Lights events contact UPB at
448-8432.
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were observance of weekends
-- in the Middle East, the
Sabbath is observed on Friday
Distances and time differences
were other obstacles.
Adbulmalik and Abdulla had
attended St. Edward’s in the
late 80s and were part of a
large population of students at
St. Edward’s from the Middle
East. According to Larkin, the
first large Middle Eastern stu-
dent population came to St.
Edward’s in the late 70s.
Griffith said St. Edward’s set
up a room in Holy Cross Hall
for the Muslim students to
pray during the day Muslims
are required to pray at regular
intervals. She said it was an
example of how the university
worked to find ways to accom-
modate students from differ-
ent parts of the world.
Larkin said the civil war in
Lebanon contributed to the
influx of Middle Eastern stu-
dents at St. Edward’s.
“We learned over the course
of our trips that families in
Bahrain, at one time, used
to send young men to the
American University in Beirut,”
Larkin said. “In the 70s, there
was a civil war in Beirut and it
was a pretty dangerous place.
So the families looked for
somewhere else to send their
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During that visit, he was
accompanied by both Larkin
and School of Management
and Business Professor Mark
Poulos.
This first visit took place
after two St. Edward’s alums,
AtifAbdulmalik, ’88 and Yasser
Abdul Rahman Abdulla, ’88
visited St. Edward’s University
in 2003. According to Kippi
Griffith, director of Alumni
and Parent Programs, the two
men were impressed with the
vision and progress of the uni-
versity They invited Martin to
visit Bahrain the following year
and to attend a reception in his
honor.
After the 2004 visit, the
conversation between the
Middle Eastern alumni and St.
Edward’s went quiet. In late
May or early June this year,
however, Martin was invited
back to Bahrain for a recep-
tion. Although Martin fre-
quently attends alumni events,
it had been three years since
he had traveled to the Middle
East.
Griffith said many cultural
and geographic obstacles had
to be overcome before the
event could take place. She
said among the differences
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that prevented us from getting
back before now,” Larkin said.
“We’d like to have a regular
presence in that part of the
world. We don’t think that we
should treat this group any dif-
ferently than we should treat
any big group in the United
States. It just takes a little lon-
ger to get there.”
The meeting was attended
by prestigious alumni, includ-
ing Foreign Minister Khalid
Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, ’84
and Undersecretary for the
Ministry of Education Hisham
Al-Khalifa.
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