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University Press
Friday, April 19,2002 A Four-Time Associated Press Texas Managing Editors Award Winner Vol. 78, No. 43
The Newspaper of Lamar University
NOTICE
Wednesday’s issue of the
UP is the last of the semes-
ter. All deadlines are noon
Monday.
Lamar company advances to nationals
Dancers earn
rare honor,
will perform
two pieces
Nakita Miles
UP staff writer
It is unusual for a dance program
to perform two pieces at the
American College Dance Festival
Nationals, but that is what the Lamar
Dance Company will be doing when
members attend the festival May 12
in the nation’s capital.
The group will leave for its first
appearance at Nationals in Washing-
ton.
At the American College Dance
Regionals held in Austin March 13
through March 16, the Lamar group
performed two pieces, “Acao de
Gracas,” choreographed by Alice
Howes, a first-year dance instructor
here at Lamar, and “Kali Ma,” chore-
ographed and performed by Heather
Ruff, a junior dance major.
Twenty-five schools attended
Regionals and 48 pieces were en-
tered, Howes said. The pieces were
judged by dance professionals. They
narrowed the numbers to five and
chose two to be performed at
Nationals. Lamar was chosen to do
the two.
It is very rare for a school who
takes two pieces to Regionals to get
both chosen to take to Nationals and
perform them in the final concert,
Howes said.
At Nationals, five students will
represent Lamar at the Kennedy
Center. They are Wakelyn Malitz,
Yatara McGrew, Tushunya Peacock,
Lori Rachal and Shani Sterling.
“It is exciting,” Malitz said. “You
can never tell at these things how the
judges’ takes are going to be. So you
need to be prepared for whatever
response you get. This time, we got a
very positive one, which always feels
good.
“The best thing about it is to
have another opportunity to be
working toward another opportunity
to perform.”
Howes said that the dancers
have two evening rehearsals now and
usually begin to have daily rehearsals
closer to the performance.
“It takes a while to really get the
dance where you want it to be when
you go,” Malitz said.
Peacock, a sophomore, said, “It
is an honor. It will put Lamar on the
map because a lot of people are not
aware of Lamar.”
She said that at this moment she
feels confident in their performance
as ^ group.
Sterling, a senior, who has been
dancing for 20 years, feels excited
about the opportunity to perform at
Nationals.
“I think it is a ground-breaking
See DANCE, page 2
Shani Sterling, left, and Wakelyn Malitz practice for Lamar’s perform-
ance at Nationals in Washington on May 12.
Campus: It is a-changing
1 W W OPHolly Westbrook
§§
The old, broken concrete patio outside of the ground. The space will be replaced
Mirabeau’s, above, was demolished by a with a new concrete patio covered by an
hired contractor Wednesday and Thursday, awning, Gerald McCaig, physical plant
An employee is shown here using machin- director, said. The aged patio, which has
ery to break up the concrete and pull it out been there since 1952, was in bad shape
and needed to be replaced, he said. Work
also is progressing on the new parking lot,
not shown, being built west of the
McFaddin-Ward Health Sciences Building
on East Lavaca Street, he said.
Bill aimed
at ‘virtual’
child porn
struck down
by court
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
government went too far in trying
to ban/computer simulations and
other fool-the-eye depictions of
teen-agers or children having sex,
the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Youthful sexuality is an old
theme in art, from Shakespeare to
Academy Award-winning movies,
the court found in striking down
key provisions of a 1996 child
pornography law on free speech
grounds.
The law would call into ques-
tion legitimate educational, scien-
tific or artistic depictions of youth-
ful sex, Justice Anthony M. Ken-
nedy wrote for a 6-3 majority.
“The statute proscribes the
visual depiction of an idea — that
of teen-agers engaging in sexual
activity — that is a fact of modern
society and has been a theme in art
and literature throughout the
ages,” Kennedy wrote in a decision
joined by four other justices.
Clarence Thomas, one of the
court’s most conservative justices,
wrote a separate opinion agreeing
with the outcome.
The court invalidated two pro-
visions of the Child Pornography
Prevention Act as overly broad
and unconstitutional. Free speech
advocates and pornographers had
challenged the law’s ban on mate-
rial that “appears to be” a child in
a sexually explicit situation or that
is advertised to convey the impres-
sion that someone under 18 is
involved.
Attorney General John
Ashcroft said the ruling makes
prosecution of child pornographers
“immeasurably more difficult.” He
offered to work with Congress on
new legislation that could with-
stand the court’s scrutiny.
It is not clear how many peo-
ple have been prosecuted under
the stricken provisions, nor what
might become of convictions. Ash-
croft said prosecutors will retool
some indictments to rely on ob-
scenity law that was unaffected by
Tuesday’s ruling.
Another section of the 1996
law was not challenged, and re-
mains in force. It bans prurient
computer alteration of innocent
images of children, such as the
grafting of a child’s school picture
onto a naked body.
Justices John Paul Stevens,
David H. Souter, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer
signed Kennedy’s opinion. Thomas,
in a separate concurring opinion,
said the court’s ruling appropriate-
ly strikes down a ban that was too
See COURT, page 2
LIT’s Cooper named president of Texas USAVICA
Lam arissimo !
Veronica Cooper of
Beaumont, a second-year stu-
dent at Lamar Institute of
Technology, won three gold
medals and was elected presi-
dent of the Texas Postsecon-
dary Skills USAVICA at its
recent convention at LIT in
Beaumont.
Cooper, a second-year
business computer informa-
tion systems major, is one of
13 students from LIT who
won gold medals at the state
competition and will compete
in the national Skills USAVI-
CA the last week of June in
Kansas City, Mo.
Cooper who was a silver
medalist at the national con-
vention last year in customer
service again won a gold
medal in that category. She
was a member of the gold
medal winning knowledge
bowl team and won the other
gold for customer service-
technical, which is the writing
portion of the contest.
Students at the institute
won a total of 20 gold medals,
six silver and seven bronzes.
Only the gold medal winners
of skills events advance to the
national competition.
Delegates to the state
conference also elected Chan-
telle Brian of Kirbyville state
chaplain and Jacie Jordan and
Ali Hashmi voting delegates
to the national convention.
The institute students also
won gold medals in both
health knowledge and general
knowledge quiz bowls. The
health knowledge bowl win-
ners were Joy Cole, Rika
Mantis and Julie Moth all of
Veronica Cooper
Beaumont, and Stacy Taylor of
Silsbee. The general knowl-
edge bowl winners were Coo-
per, Hashmi, Jordan and
Broderick Wilson, all of
Beaumont, and David
See COOPER, page 4
Season-ending concert dedicated to John Gray
Tuesday evening will bring a tribute
and a debut as the Cardinal Singers and
Lamar Dance Company conclude the 2001-
2002 season of Lamarissimo!
The concert marks David Lawrence’s
debut as director of the Cardinal Singers,
Lamar’s singing-and-dancing show choir,
Louise Wood, media specialist, said.
The university is dedicating the per-
formance to the memory of President
Emeritus John Gray, who died March 20 at
the age of 95.
The final performance of the concert
series’ 12th season will begin at 7:30 p.m. in
the Julie Rogers Theatre.
Lou Arrington is director/choreogra-
pher of the Lamar Dance Company and
also choreographs the Singers’ dance num-
bers.
“In selecting the music for this year’s
Lamarissimo! performance by the Cardinal
Singers, I wanted to find both a variety of
music, including show tunes and some vocal
jazz, that would entertain the audience as
well as music that would be challenging to
the students,” Lawrence said. “The music
we’ll be performing met both needs, and I
think the concert will be very exciting and a
lot of fun — for the students and
Lamarissimo! patrons.”
Members of the Cardinal Singers are
Alyssa Bonnette of Port Neches; Bryan
Brassard, Beaumont; Erin Burneston and
Richie Reeves, Hamshire-Fannett; Sherrie
Ellis and Kymberly Guidry, Nederland;
Robert Gossett and Matthew Ravey,
Groves; Casey Johnson, Houston; and
Rachel Kraus, Bridge City.
Featured in the Lamar Dance Company
are Andrea Clawson, Nichole Daigle,
See LAMARISSIMO!, page 2
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Chand, Daniel. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 2002, newspaper, April 19, 2002; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500723/m1/1/?q=%22Daniel%22: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.