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Quote of the day
This is the last issue of the University
“If you have made mistakes..., there is always another chance for you.... You may have a fresh start any
Press for this semester. The first issue
moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
for fall 1999 will be on August 27.
University Press
Wednesday, April 28,1999 A THREE-TlME ASSOCIATED PRESS TEXAS MANAGING EDITORS AWARD WINNER Vol. 75, No. 45
Violence in Colorado; Threat on campus
Little moments tell tragedy’s toll
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — Weeks,
maybe months from now, little moments will
remind them of what two misfit boys armed
with very adult weapons stole from them.
A Kansas farmer won’t' harvest wheat
with his grandson for the first summer in 12
years. A best friend won’t be buying a fish-
ing boat with his buddy.
Empty chairs in Bible study. Lighter gro-
cery sacks and smaller laundry piles.
Unfinished plays and shuttered piano key-
boards.
Remove one person from the fabric of
this world and it leaves a gap. Remove 15,
and the void is enormous. But it is in the dis-
covery of the little absences — the small
holes — that heartbreak awaits the friends
and families of the victims of Dylan Harris
and Eric Klebold.
For Columbine football coach Andy
Lowry, it might be next August when it’s
time to hand lineman Matt Kechter his
extra-large uniform.
For Kechter’s kid brother, it might be this
week, when he steps off the school bus and
finds nobody there to shoot hoops in the drive-
way.
“Matt always waited by the mailbox for
See MOMENTS, page 12
■ Authorities
. find Harris
suicide note
DENVER (AP)
Following is the text of an
apparent suicide note signed by
gunman Eric Harris and dated
April 19, one day before the
rampage at Columbine High
School. Authorities say they
have not confirmed the note’s
authenticity or the identity of
the person who sent the e-mail.
It was obtained by the
Denver Rocky Mountain
News.
“By now it’s over. If you are
reading this my mission is com-
plete. I have finished revolu-
tionizing the neoeuphoric
infliction of my internal terror.
Your children who have ridac-
See NOTE, page 12
Bomb threat evacuates LUIT
Billie Dorman
UP editor
Lamar University Institute of Technology
was evacuated for about one hour Friday
morning because of a bomb threat, Lamar
University Police Chief Dale Fontenot said.
Personnel and students left all six buildings
on the campus as soon as the bomb threat was
received by a LUIT secretary, Fontenot said.
“Obviously and luckily nothing was
found,” he said.
Fontenot said there have been bomb
threats in the past at LUIT, and he did not
know if this one was related to the bombing in
Littleton, Colo., or if it was someone who just
See BOMB, page 12
Police
Chief
Dale
Fontenot
Wilson elected
SGA president
Run-off for vice president
Sylvia Streeter
UP managing editor
Senior Cleve Wilson was elect-
ed 4999*2000 Student -Govern-
ment Association president dur-
ing elections held last week.
“I believe there were close to
500 people who voted...,” Wilson
said. “I don’t have an exact num-
ber, but I was told I had over 300
votes.”
Wilson, an accounting major,
. is from Arlington.
“I originally went to school in
Ohio, but my dad stays in Fort
Worth,” Wilson said. “I graduat-
ed from Aviation High School
and I wanted to go to a university
in Texas to be closer to my
father.”
Wilson said he was accepted at
Baylor University and the
University of Texas, but chose
Lamar because it was not as
expensive.
“I plan to keep my promise
about the changes I have always
said I wanted to implement, and I
also want to keep my ears open to
any new issues that may arise and
are important to students,” Wil-
„ son said. “I’ll be working...over
the summer to get ready for the
new year. I’m very excited...to get
into my new position.”
Cleve Wilson
The 22-year-old president-
elect will be inaugurated at the
Toast to Leadership banquet, set
for Friday at 6 p.m.
Melissa Kasper was re-elected
as SGA secretary/treasurer in the
April 20 SGA meeting.
“I came into office in the mid-
dle of the semester this year after
J.P. Kornegay resigned,” Kasper
See RESULTS, page 12
UPC. Edwards
Cram time
As finals near, Jason Ochsner and other students head to the library to put in extra hours study-
ing for final examinations and preparing term papers.
Contact in Belgrade
• LU student, Serbian exchange views
Belgrade is illuminated by fire and explosions.
Jason Rahmani
UP contributing writer
Newsweek magazine states
that the most potentially danger-
ous military situation facing the
United States at this time is
occurring in the Balkans.
The Balkans have, for some
' time, been a powder keg. After
all, that region was the birthplace
of World War I. Ethnic conflict
has been a major problem in this
part of the world for several hun-
dred years, but many of us in the
United States have no connection
to the area and may not be aware
of it.
* Vladimir Aleksic is a Serb liv-
ing in Belgrade with his wife and
child and has been corresponding
* with me through e-mail. In the
process, I have come to under-
stand more about this conflict
and have gotten a broader point
of view as a result.
Vladimir began writing to
ABC news through e-mail about
this conflict. I read his letters and
they interested me. I decided to
contact the network and asked
for his e-mail address, which
allowed me to contact him. 1 sent
an e-mail to him explaining who 1
was and why I was interested in
knowing more about the view-
point of a person who had first-
hand knowledge of the war going
on there.
See KOSOVO, page 2
Uppugunduri, Ramsey
tapped for top awards
Cynthia Edwards
UP staff writer
Vani Uppugunduri has been named 1999 Bess
Gentry Award recipient and John Ramsey has
been named recipient of the 1999 C. Robert
Kemble Award.
Uppugunduri is a senior from Mozambique,
and Ramsey is a senior from Port Arthur who has
graduated.
The awards program was held on Sunday at 2
p.m. on the eighth floor of Gray Library.
Uppugunduri is currently a member of eight
organizations, while finding time to be a Lamar
Alive! student director. She was a homecoming
princess this year. Uppugunduri also received the
Wall Street award for 1999. She has served as vice
president of the Friends of India, president of the
American Society for Quality, and vice president
of Blue Key. She was a member of Beta Gamma
Sigma, the Student Government Association, and
several other organizations and committees.
Ramsey, who graduated in December, was
Interfraternity Council president, a peer adviser,
served on the SGA, and was a scholarship winner.
He served on the Student Affairs Governing
Board, and was a member of Order of Omega, the
LU LEAD program, and was president of Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Randa Tooke, coordinator for new student
organizations, said recipients are selected on the
basis of exemplary character; leadership as evi-
denced at Lamar University; esteem held by oth-
ers; contribution to community, state and nation;
and scholarship during the candidate’s undergrad-
uate careers.
“The award honors the recipient for outstand-
ing contribution and service to the university com-
munity for scholastic achievement,” Tooke said.
These are the two highest awards that the cam-
pus offers for student leadership.
“It is a honor to be selected as a...recipient,”
Uppugunduri said. “I feel the Lamar community
has truly appreciated what I have done. To be des-
ignated the top female of the university makes me
feel more confident in my potential to succeed....”
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