Left, Rick Settoon; right, Cheryl Settoon Settoon to head Southeastern Channel Rick Settoon, an international award-winning producer, writer and director of prime time network television programming, has been named general manager of the Southeastern Channel, Southeastern’s educational access cable channel.       Settoon, a 1980 Southeastern graduate and Hammond native, brings 23 years of television experience to the channel, which debuted last summer on Charter Communications Channel 18.        “The potential of the Southeastern Channel is enormous,” Settoon said. “We’re excited about the quality and variety of programs we’re going to bring area viewers in the coming years -- shows they’ll enjoy and benefit from. We want the channel to be a beacon of education and culture for the university, community and entire southeast region of Louisiana.”       Settoon’s more than 250 productions have aired on the Fox Family Network and ABC Family Network and were viewed by a national audience of more than one million daily in the United States and 90 foreign countries. As director of the special products division and producer for a live daily news magazine/talk show for The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), he wrote and directed prime time specials, documentary programs and series, dramatic programs, feature segments and commercials in 35 states and overseas.       Settoon also was project coordinator and documentary producer for Coastal Video Productions, the world’s largest producer of safety and training productions. His productions included Ground Zero: After the Fall, which aired internationally during the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks and is slated for rebroadcast this year.       Settoon has been honored with a national Emmy Award nomination and George Foster Peabody Award recognition. His work has also been recognized with national Telly Awards and multiple first place awards at the New York Festivals, the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, and the WorldFest International Film and Video Festival.       Settoon and his wife, Cheryl, have a son, Elisha, and daughter, Holly.       Cheryl Settoon has also joined the Southeastern staff as writer/producer in the Public Information Office and instructor in the Communication Department. She has 16 years experience producing programs for a cable network. Her programs have aired primetime before a daily audience of more than one million viewers in the United States and in 90 foreign countries. From Kiev to Beijing to Buenos Aires, she has produced long form and segments on location. She wrote the docudrama 1000 Years in the Killing Fields, which was taped on location in Cambodia.       For the past eight years, she has managed producers and supervised their productions. She has also produced highly effective promotional videos that showcase the worldwide humanitarian outreach of Operation Blessing and the Christian Broadcasting Network.       Most recently, she has concentrated on live television while line producing The 700 Club, a news magazine program with an arrage of diverse guests such as Senator Bill Frist, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Lyn Cheney, Curt Warner, Charlie Daniels, Michael W. Smith and others.

Upcoming on the Southeastern Channel National Signing Day live special The Southeastern Channel will air a live, one-hour special on Southeastern’s 2003 football recruiting class on National Signing Day. The show will air on Charter Communications Channel 18 at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 5. It will immediately follow the 7 p.m. broadcast of “The Hal Mumme Show,” a pilot of the Lion coach’s show focusing on the process of bringing football back to Southeastern.       The recruiting program will feature studio interviews with Mumme and his assistants discussing the new crop of Lion signees. Video highlights of the new players and footage from the Lions’ first-ever recruiting bash will be included. President Randy Moffett, left, and Athletic Director Frank Pergolizzi, right, congratulate Southeastern Lady Lions basketball legend Queen Brumfield Nard, whose Southeastern jersey was retired at halftime of the Lady Lions vs. Southwest Texas basketball game last Saturday night. African American Heritage Month coverage The Southeastern Channel will broadcast the first episode of a series on Southeastern’s celebration of African American Heritage Month at 7 p.m., Thursday, February 6.       The series will feature interviews and profiles of guest speakers, performers and lecturers appearing on campus during February, African American Heritage Month.       The first episode features speaker Leonard Moore, author of Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power in America, and Queen Brumfield Nard, the greatest women’s basketball player in Southeastern history.

Gospel Choir concert features special guest  One of the month’s highlights of African American Heritage Month will be the February 15 concert at the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts by the acclaimed Southeastern Gospel Choir, featuring Gospel great Karen Clark Sheard.       As a member of the legendary Clark Sisters and daughter of gospel pioneer Mattie Moss-Clark, Clark Sheard has carved a niche in the gospel music industry as an untouchable songstress and award-winning solo performer. With her  powerful soprano, she has provided lead vocals on such classics as "Hallelujah," "Endow Me," "Take Me Higher," and "Praying Spirit." Her musical ministry has inspired legions of followers, including recording artists Kenny Lattimore, Faith Evans, Mariah Carey, and Nancey Jackson. Reviewers have touted Clark Sheard’s latest album, “2nd Chance,” as “one of the best records of 2002.”       Tickets for the Gospel Choir concert are $10 in advance and $15 at the door, and are available in the Multicultural and International Affairs office, War Memorial Student Union  room 112, 985-549-3850.       Visit this link for more about African American Heritage Month.

Better Than Ezra wows fans at Columbia Better Than Ezra took the stage of the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts last week, to the delight to hundreds of excited fans Members are, left, Kevin Griffin, Travis Aaron McNabb (drums), and Tom Drummond.	Kevin Griffin croons the popular favorite "At The Stars" from Better Than Ezra's third CD release How Does Your Garden Grow.

Green and Gold pride! On Thursday, January 30, Southeastern Green and Gold was front and center at Southeastern as the Pride Day committeee handed out pennants in the Student Union, left, and students jammed the "Jungle" -- the University Center -- to cheer on the men's and women's basketball teams.

Students to design “safety ideas” for Project Safe Campus
Although Southeastern is a public university and wants everyone to feel welcome on our campus, the university has an obligation to our students, faculty, and staff to provide a safe environment. In an effort to raise awareness regarding issues of safety, the Division of Student Affairs is initiating "Project Safe Campus." To kickoff the campaign, yard signs, posters, newspaper and radio ads, and other notices will be prominent across campus.
    The campaign will feature "Southeastern Safety Awareness Week" during which time students and student organizations will be invited to participate in the design of posters, ads, and other creative safety ideas. The winning ad will be run in the Lion's Roar and its creator(s) will receive a prize. In keeping with the theme of the campaign, the ads will focus on campus safety, encouraging students to carry their Southeastern ID cards with them at all times and to be aware of their surroundings.
     Project Safe Campus is our way of asking the Southeastern community to join together to create a safe environment for everyone.

Southeastern's Deborah Andrus, left, and Delta State's Lois Hobbs will share the Pottle Music Building Auditorium stage for a special recital Tuesday. Clarinetist, pianist present Encore! recital tomorrow Encore! 2003, the Southeastern Louisiana University Department of Music and Dramatic Art’s spring performing arts series, opens February 4 with a recital by clarinetist Deborah Andrus and pianist Lois Hobbs.       The free recital is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Pottle Music Building Auditorium.       Andrus, assistant professor of clarinet at Southeastern, and Hobbs, a member of the faculty at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss., will perform two pieces for clarinet and piano, a sonatina by Joseph Horovitz and the Brahm’ s "Sonata No. 1 in F Minor.".       Hobbs will also perform Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit" and a sonatina by Maria Hester Park.       Hobbs, staff accompanist at Delta State, has performed extensively in recitals, competitions, and festivals as a collaborative artist for such venues as the Mid-South Flute Festival; Delta State Clarinet Symposium; Oberlin College-Conservatory Summer Flute Festival; Cleveland Chamber Music Society (Ohio); the Tucson Chamber Music Society; the Art Song Festival and Kent-Blossom Music Festivals in Ohio. With flutist Keith Pettway, she recorded works by Mississippi composers on a CD entitled “Mississippi Classic,” which was used by Public Radio Mississippi as a gift to donors for their 2000 fundraising campaign.       She is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and is concurrently enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Arizona. She has worked as staff accompanist at the Cleveland Institute, the Oberlin-College Conservatory of Music, and the Encore School for Strings in Ohio, where she specialized in assisting young violinists and violists for competitions and recitals from Chicago to Moscow. She also has been the official accompanist for the District Metropolitan Opera competition in Mississippi and Delta State University's Opera Theatre performances.       As a solo artist, Hobbs has given numerous solo recitals, and has competed successfully in national and regional solo piano competitions such as the Johanna Hodges International Piano Competition.        Andrus, who joined the Southeastern music faculty in August 2001,  teaches clarinet, woodwind chamber music and music appreciation. She holds degrees in clarinet performance from State University of New York-Potsdam and Michigan State University and received a doctoral degree in clarinet performance from Ohio State University. Her teachers include Alan Woy, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, James Pyne and Theodore Oien.       Before coming to Southeastern, Andrus was on the faculty at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. In summer 2000 and 2001, she  was the featured soloist with the Ringgold Band in Reading, Penn. She recently was appointed to teach clarinet at the New England Music Camp in Oakland, Maine, in summer 2002.       She is coordinating the Encore! 2003 Southeastern Clarinet Symposium, a day-long series of master classes and workshops for clarinetists of all ages, on May 5.       Upcoming Encore! 2003 events include a faculty recital by guitarist Patrick Kerber at 7:30 p.m., February 10, in the Music Recital Hall; a concert at the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts by the Southeastern Chamber Orchestra on February 17, and the second annual Bill Evans Jazz Festival, February 20-22, featuring pianist George Winston on February 20. For more information on Winston's concert, visit www.selu.edu/columbia.       For additional information about the recital and an Encore! brochure, contact the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, 985-549-2184.

Gamma Beta Phi earns national award
The Southeastern chapter of Gamma Beta Phi brought home its 19th “Distinguished Chapter Award,” the highest award given by the national organization to an individual chapter, from the national GBP convention in Nashville, Tenn. The chapter’s scrapbook also was a winner, taking second place on the national level.
      Jackie Dale Thomas, director of Leadership Development/ Student Activities, Terry Passman, assistant director of the Physical Plant, and Brian Verberne, coordinator of the Campus Activities Board, accompanied students and alumni to the conference. Thomas presented a program entitled “When your Sizzle Fizzles,” and Verberne presented “How To Get Elected.”  Passman served as a National Scrapbook Judge. 
      Verberne and Southeastern alumnus Amy Verberne  served on the national Governing Board.  Amy Verberne was re-elected for a second term and received the McCauley Certificate of Merit, the highest award given to an individual by the national organization.

Spanish Club/Colombian ESL program sponsor events 
The Southeastern Spanish Club and the 35 students from the Colombian English as a Second Language Program got together on January 29 at Hammond Hall dormitory to practice conversing in both English and  Spanish, cook a unique combination of international foods, and practice Latin dance moves to prepare for next week's activity, which will feature Latin dance instruction by the Colombian ESL students.
      The Spanish Club/Colombian ESL groups will host one event per week for the next four weeks. All students interested in participating in cultural exchange are invited. Spanish Club members attend free and admission is $2 for non-members. Membership in the Spanish Club is $5.
      The next activity is Thursday, Feb.6, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Hammond Hall. For information, visit the Language Resource Center (DVIC 211) or send an email to the Spanish Club: clubhispo@selu.edu.

Phi Kappa Phi Quiz Bowl makes headlines
The first annual Homecoming Intramural Quiz Bowl Tournament, sponsored by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi last November, is featured in the January 2003 Phi Kappa Phi Focus, a national publication distributed to Phi Kappa Phi members across the country. Included in the article is a picture of the first place winning quiz bowl team from the English Department, the Gramminators.

Louisiana Writing Project Network members who met recently at Southeastern are, from left, Linda Traweek, co-director, University of Louisiana Writing Project, ULM; Jo Galle, director,University of Louisiana Writing Project, ULM; Ann Dobie, state coordinator, LAWP; Richard Louth, director, Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project; Elizabeth Willis, co-director, LSU Writing Project; Jane Haspel, director, Greater New Orleans Writing Project, UNO); Kathleen O'Shaughnessy, co-director, Acadiana Writing Project, ULL; Kilian McCurrie, director, LSU Writing Project. SLWP hosts state colleagues The Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project, under the direction of Dr. Richard Louth, hosted a meeting of the Louisiana Writing Project Network (LAWP) at Southeastern's  Writing Center on January 25.        The LAWP, a coalition of National Writing Project sites at Louisiana universities, was one of five state networks in the nation selected for the National Writing Project's "State Network Action Project (SNAP)." SNAP is a nationally-funded three-year initiative to improve the teaching of writing in the nation's schools.        As part of the SNAP initiative, teachers from  the Louisiana Writing Project Network will receive funding to work on statewide writing initiatives and on projects with teachers from Massachussetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.        Directors from LAWP met at Southeastern to plan a presentation on writing in Louisiana schools to be delivered at the first State Network Retreat in Tucson, Feb. 26-28.

Condolences
The Southeastern family extends its sympathy to the Beverly Costanza (Student Publications), whose mother, Dovie Picou, passed away on Saturday, January 25. 
     We are also saddened by the death on February 1 of Dr. Fred Arthur Guillott, director of distance learning at Southeastern. Dr. Guillott, 60, was a resident of Hammond and native of Port Allen. A retired major with the U.S. Air Force, his service from 1965 to 1985 included two tours in Vietnam and earned him  the Silver Star. Dr. Guillott also received the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals for his achievements as an F-111 fighter-bomber weapons system officer in Southeast Asia. He had a total of 15 Air Medals.
     Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday  at West Baton Rouge Presbyterian Church, 640 Florida Ave., Port Allen, and from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the church. Religious services will follow.
     Southeastern extends its sympathy of Dr. Guillott's family and friends. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Southeastern Athletic Association.

This week in athletics
The Southeastern baseball team hosts an alumni weekend and the softball team opens up regular season play to highlight This Week in Southeastern Athletics.
      On Saturday, the Lions baseball team will hold a pair of alumni games at Alumni Field. The games wil begin at 11 a.m. with an "Old Timers'" game, followed by the alumni facing the 2003 squad at 1 p.m.
      The softball team opens up regular season play this week, making a weekend trip to Tallahassee, Fla. to compete in the Seminole Classic. The tournament runs Friday through Sunday.
      The men's and women's basketball teams close out their five-game homestand with a pair of doubleheaders. On Thursday, Sam Houston State comes to town, with the women's game set for 5:30 p.m. and the men's scheduled to tip-off at 7:45 p.m.
      On Saturday, the teams host Lamar. The action begins at 4 p.m. with the women's game, followed by the men's game at 7 p.m.
      The men's and women's tennis teams will be in Lorman, Miss., on Tuesday for a 2 p.m. match with Alcorn State. The men's team will open up Southland Conference play on Friday, when they play host to Lamar at 2 p.m. On Sunday, the Lions will be in Baton Rouge for a 5 p.m. match at LSU.
      The indoor track and field team continues its season competing in the Houston Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
Tuesday, February 4
      Men's and Women's Tennis, at Alcorn State, Lorman, Miss., 2 p.m.
Thursday, February 6
      Women's Basketball, vs. Sam Houston State, University Center, 5:30 p.m.
      Men's Basketball, vs. Sam Houston State, University Center, 7:45 p.m.
Friday, February 7
      Softball, at Seminole Classic, Talahassee, Fla., TBA
      Men's Tennis, vs. Lamar, Southeastern Tennis Courts, 2 p.m.
      Track & Field, at Houston Invitational, Houston, Texas, TBA
Saturday, February 8
      Baseball, "Old Timers" Alumni Game, Alumni Field, 11 a.m.
      Baseball, Alumni vs. 2003 Lions, Alumni Field, 1 p.m.
      Women's Basketball, vs. Lamar, University Center, 4 p.m.
      Men's Basketball, vs. Lamar, University Center, 7 p.m.
      Softball, at Seminole Classic, Talahassee, Fla., TBA
      Track & Field, at Houston Invitational, Houston, Texas, TBA
Sunday, February 9
      Softball, at Seminole Classic, Talahassee, Fla., TBA
      Track & Field, at Houston Invitational, Houston, Texas, TBA

Professional activities
Dr. Katherine Kolb (Foreign Languages) presented a paper entitled "Tenor Seductions" at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in New York, December 27-30, where she and Dr. Stuart Stewart (Foreign Languages) also interviewed candidates for the position of department head in Foreign Languages.
      Mr. Anthony Blakeney (Industrial Technology) received the 2002 District Educator of the Year from the American Welding Society. The AWS District 9 includes the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida. Mr. Blakeney is faculty advisor to the AWS student chapter at Southeastern.
     Daniel McCarthy (Chemistry and Physics) presented two papers at the 44th Annual American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Meeting in Orlando, Fla., in November. The papers were entitled "Edge Harmonic Oscillations Produced by Toroidal Velocity Shear," and  "Conservation Laws for Wave Actions in Four-Wave Interactions of Drift Waves and Zonal Flows." The latter was written in collaboration with physicists from the U.K. Atomic Energy Agency, and Raghuveer Dodda, an undergraduate student at Southeastern. This work is currently supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fusion Science.
      Six members of the Department of Mathematics recently attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings held in Baltimore, Md. Drs. Elizabeth Gray, Randall Wills, Kent Neuerburg, Danny Acosta, Lucy Kabza, and Shane Redmond attended the conference. Dr. Neuerburg presented a papers entitled "Bezier Curves" and "Structure of the Zero-Divisor Graph of a Non-Commutative Ring."  Dr. Redmond also had a paper with the same title accepted by The Houston Journal of Mathematics.
      Dr. Brian O'Callaghan (Mathematics, is the author of a chapter in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) newest publication, Lessons Learned from Research. He received a letter and a certificate of appreciation for his "significant professional contribution" to the Mathematics Education community from the president of the NCTM.