CIAA Tickets

Tickets for the 2009 CIAA Tournament in Charlotte are on sale now from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday in Hunter Building, Room 3. For more information, call 516-4279.

2009 CIAA Ticket Prices

Lower Level-Silver Priority (Section 115)                    $225

Lower Level-Gold Priority (Section 116)                     $175

Upper Level-Bronze Club (Sections 227& 229)          $100

Upper Level-Bronze Club Students (Section 220)      $50

 

Episcopal Day of Recognition

The Episcopal Church Office of Black Ministries and the Association of Episcopal Colleges, under the auspices of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, present a Day of Recognition February 18 -19 at Saint Augustine’s College in the Martin Luther King Jr. Conference Center. The two-day conference honors the nation’s three historically black Episcopal schools – Saint Augustine’s College, Saint Paul’s College and Voorhees College. The event features student sessions on leadership and service, a panel discussion featuring the presidents from the three colleges and a performance by the combined college choirs. For more information, call 516-4001.   

 

Senior class upcoming events

Wednesday, February 18 – 12 p.m.

Project Graduation Session

Boyer Building, Room 012

Guest speakers: Crystal Williams and Erica Ray, Office of the Registrar

Topics: Graduation 2009, senior candidacy letters, financial aid clearance forms, and cap and gown fittings 

 

Saturday, February 21 – 6 p.m.

Black History Month Program

"Evolution of a Black Woman"

Seby Jones Auditorium

 

Cultural Expressions

The Collegiate 100 Black Men of America, Falcon Poetry Club and Pi Gamma Mu National Honor Society present Respecting Your Roots: A Cultural Expression on Tuesday, February 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Ballroom. The event will feature poetry reading, musical selections, stepping and miming.

 

UNCF 5K Walk/Run

CIAA Tournament attendees are invited to participate in the 2009 UNCF Walk/Run for Education on Saturday, February 28, in Charlotte. Registration begins at 7 a.m., with the walk/run beginning promptly at 8 a.m. The race will start at the Spectrum Properties parking lot at 3rd and Tryon streets directly across from Wachovia Plaza. Free parking is available at the Transamerica Deck on the corner of 7th and Tryon streets from 7-11 a.m. the day of the walk. The walk benefits the UNCF, which helps fund scholarships at Saint Augustine’s College. Registration is $20 for adults and $10 for students. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cl5x6x to download a registration form.

 

Register for campus chili cook-off (change of date)

Saint Augustine’s College will host its first faculty and staff chili cook-off Friday, March 13, in the Martin Luther King Building conference room. Judging begins at noon. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place. The registration fee is $10, and the fee to sample the chili will be $3. All proceeds will benefit the Charles Edwards Transplant Fund. To sign up for the contest, call 516-4092 or e-mail development@st-aug.edu. No professional entries are permitted.

 

Vote for Miss CIAA

Miss Saint Augustine’s College, Shariah Scott, is vying to be Miss CIAA. Visit http://www.ciaatournament.org/section/miss-ciaa and cast your vote to crown her Miss CIAA. Select Saint Augustine’s College and click the Vote button. Voting ends February 27.

 

Black History Month movie showings

On Wednesdays at 7 p.m. during February, the Prezell R. Robinson Library staff will host special feature films in honor of Black History Month. Prior to the movie, there will be an open discussion on the movie being shown.

 

The featured movies are:

 

February 18 – Four Little Girls: (Spike Lee) This powerful film captures a time in 1963 when four little girls died in a racially motivated church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. This documentary shows a time and a way of life that would be forever altered by the death of four little girls.

 

February 25 – ESPN’s Black Magic – CIAA: The movie features the CIAA basketball tournaments and a look at the most talented African-American basketball players who lived through the civil rights movement and basketball. This film features interviews with Ben Wallace, Willis Reed and Earl “The Pearl” Monroe.

 

CTL workshop: How to Get Better Student Writing Part II

Peer review is a pedagogical technique that is often used in the composition classroom, and can ease the common frustration of professors who must grade hastily written student writing. Current research in composition and rhetoric shows that student writing improves when students have regular feedback during the writing process.

 

The session will be offered from 12:15-1:15 p.m. Tuesday, February 17, in the Martin Luther King Student Union.

 

The workshop will be interactive, so please bring at least one writing assignment and plenty of questions. Professors from all disciplines are encouraged to attend. For more information, call the Center for Teaching and Learning at 516-4695.

 

International Studies to host film festival

The Department of International Studies has been awarded a Tournées Festival Grant to help bring contemporary French cinema to colleges and universities. The department will host a French film festival through March 4. The event is free and open to the public. All showings will be at Seby Jones Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. each Wednesday.

 

Internship opportunities

The Belk Professional Development Center has the following internship opportunities available:

For more information about any of these or other internship programs, contact Ivy Wilcox in the Belk Professional Development Center at 516-4242.

 

Enjoy a late Valentine’s date with the Pointer Sisters

The North Carolina Symphony presents the Pointer Sisters, February 20-21 at 8 p.m. and February 22 at 3 p.m. at the Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are buy one, get one free. For tickets, contact Nicole Warren at nwarren@ncsymphony.org. Use the promo code “excited.” Ticket prices range from $20-$40. The offer expires February 18.

  

Sports

 
 

 


Saint Augustine’s College sweeps CIAA Indoor Track and Field titles

Saint Augustine's College relied on its depth in running and jumping events to capture the 2009 CIAA men's and women’s indoor track and field championships Saturday, February 14, at the Freeman Center on Christopher Newport University's campus in Newport News, Va.

 

Both victories came easily for Saint Augustine's College, which won its 39th CIAA indoor crown in school history, including 24 men's titles and 15 women's championships. In the men's standings, the Falcons scored 228 points followed by Bowie State (65), Virginia Union (43), Virginia State (41), Johnson C. Smith (18), Saint Paul's (12) and Livingstone (6). In the women's events, the Lady Falcons scored 153 points followed by Virginia State, (69), Bowie State (69), Johnson C. Smith (60), Virginia Union (7) and Saint Paul's (4).

 

Middle distance runner Chayce Smith and jumper Joe Kindred paced the Falcon men's team, and jumper Andrea Powell led the Lady Falcons. Smith was named men's track MVP and Kindred was selected men's field MVP while Powell earned women's field MVP. Kindred, last year's Division II national men's outdoor field athlete of the year, won his fourth straight league MVP award.

 

The Falcons claimed wins in 10 of 14 men's events. In addition to Kindred's victory in the high jump, Johnny Shuping won the 800 and one-mile runs, Josh Scott won the 400, Dennis Boone captured the 60, Tim Lovick won the 60 hurdles, Jamal Cumberbatch won the triple jump and Richard Boone won the 200. The foursome of Arthur Lee, Joshua Cleveland, Karym Graves and Joshua Robinson captured the men's distance medley relay and the team of Antonio Abney, Travon Lee, Rashaud Johnston and Scott won the men's 4x400 relay.

 

Scott set a Freeman Center record in thrilling fashion when he edged Ledford Green of Johnson C. Smith at the finish line 47.83 to 47.89 in the men's 400 dash. Both Scott and Green broke the old mark of 48.08 seconds set in 2001 by Charles Shoffner of North Carolina A&T. 

 

Powell won the high jump, placed second in the long jump and finished fourth in the triple jump to score 22 points for the Lady Falcons, who won eight of 13 events. Angelique Smith paced the Lady Falcons with wins in the 200 and 400, Racquel Daly won the one-mile run, Olympic sprinter Barbara Pierre was the 60 dash winner and Kyra Mobley won the 800. The team of Smith, Mobley, Daly and Sharona Brown finished first in the women's distance medley relay and the team of Brown, Sheena Johns, Smith and Mobley won the 4x400 relay. The Lady Falcons claimed the top three places in the 400 and 800.

 

Softball results

Friday, February 13: Anderson College (DH)

Anderson: 11               Saint Augustine’s College: 1

Anderson: 10               Saint Augustine’s College: 0

 

Saturday, February 14: Coker College

Coker: 19                    Saint Augustine’s College: 0

Coker: 9                      Saint Augustine’s College: 0

 

Intramural basketball

Tuesday, February 17 – Emery Gymnasium

9 p.m.: Kings of the Court vs. Showstoppers

10 p.m.: Full Effect vs. Latham Hall Spartans

11 p.m.: Falcon Battalion vs. Original Ballers

12 a.m.: Smokin’ Shootaz vs. Da Family

 

Women’s Basketball

Tuesday, February 17 Livingstone College                             5:30 p.m.

Salisbury, N.C.

 

Thursday, February 19           Claflin University                       6 p.m.

Orangeburg, S.C.

 

Men’s Basketball

Tuesday, February 17 Livingstone College                             7:30 p.m.

Salisbury, N.C.

 

Baseball

Tuesday, February 17 Coker College                                       2 p.m.

Hartsville, S.C.

 

Wednesday, February 18       Columbia College                      1 p.m.

Cary, N.C.

 

Saturday, February 21            Davis and Elkins College           1 p.m.

Cary, N.C.

 

Sunday, February 22              Davis and Elkins College            1 p.m.

Cary, N.C.

 

Indoor Track

February 20-21                       VT Last Chance                    

Blacksburg, Va.

 

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