Dash for Disabled Veterans

They gave for us. Let’s give back.

Registering and check-in starts at 8am and starting at 9am on Saturday, Nov 22 at Starcke Park people from all walks of life will gather to walk, or run, a 5K to help raise funds for the Disabled American Veterans’ Chapter 61 in Seguin, Texas.

It is not too late to participate in this event. By paying $30 the day of, one can still help the Disabled American Veterans.

·         Awards will be given in the following age groups: 1-18, 19-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50+

·         Register your dog for $5.00. Registered dogs will receive a bandana.

·         The first registered dog to cross the finish line wins a prize.

·         Dogs on leashes, registered or not, are welcome to participate.

This event was organized by the TLU Honors FREX 134 students, in partnership with Disabled American Veterans’ Chapter 61.

More information can be found at SEGUINRESPECT.ORG/DASH or call 830.372.8160

Empty Bowls Fill Empty Stomachs

Sunday afternoon on Nov 9 various campus organizations and local restaurants brought gallons of soup to the Party Barn to take part in a localized international event to combat hunger. From 11am to 2pm people came to the location and purchased soup from a wide array of options.

The funds raised at Empty Bowls fund a mobile pantry. It fights hunger not only in Seguin but in surrounding areas. The food bank serves 16 counties in south Texas. This is the 4th year TLU has hosted this event. So far TLU has raised more than $25,000 since 2011. To date, more than 200,000 pounds of food has been handed out to families, children, and seniors because of this event.

Ashlie Ford, TLU marketing department, media relations, and senior staff writer, stated: “The whole message of empty bowls is to be reminded of all of the empty bowls in the world. I am very proud to be a part of it. I think it is definitely something that represents TLU and our mission. It goes with our tag line to learn boldly and live to inspire.”

Empty bowls is an international project to fight hunger. TLU has localized it and partnered with the San Antonio food bank and Walt Glass pottery in San Antonio to make the bowls. The local artisans and ceramicists make the bowls, people buy the bowls and soup, and the funds feed the hungry. The heart of the whole event is the hunger relief project. People made a difference by purchasing a simple bowl of soup and bread. This community event brought people together for a common cause to relieve hunger and share in the feeling of thankfulness for food.

Miranda Taylor, Reporter

Fun with Physics

Thursday, November 6^th, 2014 was an exciting night for the Physics department at TLU. The evening’s festivities began at five with a lecture by Christopher Rogan, a particle physicist from Harvard University. He is ranked in the top 30 under the age of 30 innovators, and has worked on the ATLAS project at the CERN supercollider for several years. He covered how new particles were being discovered using the high-powered supercollider and the ATLAS detector. He also talked about the discovery of the Higgs-Boson using the amazing detectors in Switzerland. Dr. Rogan was a great speaker and gave a wonderful lecture that was very well thought out and easy for everyone, even the non-particle physicists, to understand. If you are interested in learning more, the lecture is available to stream on the portal.

After the lecture, the Society of Physics students hosted Family Physics night in the Jackson party barn. This event was designed to show kids, and the inner kid in us, how fun physics can be. Experiments included a Rube Goldberg machine, explanations of why the sky is blue, a cloud chamber, and a splash pool of non-Newtonian fluid, which have properties of both solids and liquids.  They also showed a cool wave-pendulum device of simple oscillators, as wells as ferro-fluids, which are fun to play with!

They also hosted lessons to teach students about the physics of sound, polarizing vs. ordinary light, and induced electromagnetic fields. SPS also hosted large demonstrations at different times during the evening. They threw boiling water into liquid nitrogen, making a big boom, and put shaving cream in a vacuum chamber. The audience was constantly amazed, and it was fun to see the looks of delight on the children’s faces.

Erin Scanlon, physics instructor at TLU, said, “We are really excited about the turnout at this event. It is a great opportunity to bring together TLU and the surrounding community.”

The President of SPS, Stephen Bratz, a senior physics major, also talked about how important the community involvement was, to making this event successful. He states, “This is a great opportunity for the community to come together and gain knowledge about physics. It is also a great opportunity to highlight the talents of the TLU students.

Overall, the events were a great success, and the students of SPS hope to see an even bigger crowd at next year’s events