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Wednesday │November 14, 2012 │ Vol. 99, No. 13
Texas Woman’s University | Student run since 1914
Women in Commerce Conference: finding your center
Shannon Quick News Editor
Yesterday students, faculty and staff gathered in the Underground to celebrate Thanksgiving. Students enjoyed turkey, ham, cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole, and classic deserts such as pumpkin, pecan and lemon meringue pies. There were also vegetarian and vegan options including: Quorn, Turk’y Roast, cranberry sauce and creamy butternut–squash soup. The food was not the only thing that drew students to the underground yesterday. Friends of freshman Biochemistry major Emelia Beltran gathered to celebrate her birthday singing and talking about their Thanksgiving plans. Also dining in the Underground yesterday was the Junior Cadet Corps from Leonard Middle School, which posted the colors at the TWU Veterans Symposium earlier in the morning. Many students are planning on going home over the Thanksgiving holiday to destinations as close as Dallas, Ft. Worth and Denison or as far away as San Antonio and Louisiana.
Dennis Barbee Managing Editor
Photography by Shannon Quick
Students enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving buffet in the TWU Student Union Underground.
TWU Veterans Symposium
Laura Hilton Features Editor
“TWU has more female veterans that any other state university in Texas,” declared Director of TWU Commuter and Non-Traditional Student Services Amy O’Keefe. Yesterday in Hubbard Hall, Commuter Services hosted its first Veterans Symposium and Benefits Expo. “We’d eventually like to see it become a full–day conference,” O’Keefe stated, “and so [with] our first project, we wanted to start with something a little more bite–size.” O’Keefe added that the symposium was held because the university has a commitment to “Serving those who served.” The symposium gave TWU the opportunity to attain more information regarding those services available to veterans.
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Photography by Laura Hilton
Left to Right : Members of the Fort Worth Leonard Middle School Junior Cadet Corps Jack Bodenmiller, Trey Vinton, Ana Espinosa, and Tomequa Baker-Hule perform the posting of colors ceremony at the TWU Veterans Symposium.
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The fifth annual Denton Women in Commerce Conference helped students focus on “Finding Your Center.” The annual event, held last Friday, is a program sponsored by the Denton Chamber of Commerce, Texas Woman’s University’s School of Management and Sally Beauty Holdings Inc., and focuses on showcasing and supporting women–owned businesses in Denton County. The event was held in Hubbard Hall with talks scheduled throughout the day and a marketplace for local female business owners to display their products. Guests were invited to have their “passport” (a small booklet handed out for the event) stamped upon entry for door prizes given out at the end of the event. Featured speakers were authors Julie Hersh and Cindy Kleckner as well as author, trainer and speaker Elizabeth Lions. The group focused on balancing work and life, mental health and nutrition. Director of Programs and Membership Development Angelica Del Rosal stated her belief that the event helped women network with other women in business and create a support structure that can be crucial to succeeding. “As a single working parent, I am very fortunate to work for an organization that understands my commitment at home, to my child, and that I also give a hundred percent, at my job, that I balance both of those.” Del Rosal continued, “It can get difficult, but I think having the support from your employer is very important and not all women get that… We want to help women feel that they have that support.” Author Julie Hersh discussed her own experiences with clinical depression, and her thoughts on how to stay mentally well in your everyday life and how a support system can be instrumental in maintaining a healthy balance. “Do some things for yourself so that you’re more prepared to deal with your life,” Hersh advised. Hersh also spoke about the importance of maintaining your mind as you would any other organ because “the brain is an organ that needs maintenance, just as if you had a cavity you would go to the dentist so it would not get worse.” Hersh continued, “If people would start thinking of their brains as an organ that needs care and that would help people treat depression as the
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