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Career expo coming up
Quote of the day
Career Fair to give students the opportunity to interview with prospective
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
employers on Tuesday and Wednesday.
— Pages 4 and 5
— Eleanor Roosevelt
University Press
Friday, February 2,2001 A Three-Time Associated Press Texas Managing Editors Award Winner Vol. 77, No. 27
LU Symphonic Band to take top spot at TMEA
Catherine Wright
UP staff writer
The Lamar Symphonic Band will
be performing a concert on Thursday
in San Antonio for the Texas Music
Educators Association, the largest
music educators group in the world.
Barry Johnson, interim vice pres-
ident for student affairs and director
£|. of bands, said that TMEA was creat-
ed more than 50 years ago as an orga-
nization for band directors, and then
it gradually began to include other
musical genres.
It is now an association for band,
vocal music, strings, and both ele-
mentary and college music depart-
ments. It is also-the organization that
hosts All-State band and choir, as
well as the Honor Band program.
Lamar will be performing as part
of TMEA’s college concert. This con-
cert is one that is performed through
invitation only.
Johnson said that in order to be
considered for an invitation, college
bands throughout the state submit a
tape to TMEA of their tentative per-
formance. The tapes are judged by
Jeff Laird, TMEA band chair.
Out of all the tapes submitted,
Laird selects only four to perform for
the concert, Johnson said. Laird then
arranges the bands’ performance
times according to the strength of the
music each has chosen to perform
and the bands’ actual playing abili-
ties.
The TMEA university concerts
begin at 1 p.m., and the last band
begins its performance at 8 p.m. This
final time slot is the premiere perfor-
Free performance Sunday
The Symphonic Band will per-
form its San Antonio TMEA
concert program on Sunday in
the University Theater at 3 p.m.
The performance is free.
mance time and is given to the band
that submitted the strongest tape,
Johnson said.
This year, Lamar will be the
band performing in that “best slot,”
as Johnson puts it, winning over
Texas Tech, Sam Houston and A&M
at Kingsville.
Up against tough competition,
the LU Symphonic Band worked
hard to make sure they came out on
top, members said. The band
remained on campus an extra week
during the winter break and came
back a week early at the beginning of
the spring semester in order to attend
band rehearsals that lasted from 8:30
a.m. until 3:30 in the afternoon.
And many band students experi-
enced the “sunrise services,” as John-
son terms them, otherwise known as
5:30 a.m. sectionals.
Their hard work will be paid in
full when they get to perform in not
only one of the most prestigious con-
certs in the nation but also are given
the opportunity to play with some
outstanding artists.
Allen Vizzutti, widely known
trumpet virtuoso in both jazz and
classical music, is one of the guest
artists at TMEA and will be perform-
ing with the Lamar band.
“He’s a very talented, outstand-
See BAND, page 2
Intramural
basketball
to open
Sunday
Lamar juniors Elizabeth Everett and Bobby Henson work in the
hunting and fishing department at Oshman’s on Stagg Drive in
Beaumont.
Access to firearms at
local store examined
after Irving robbery
The apprehension of the “Texas Seven” was the final chapter
to a tragic story that left two men dead. One was a hero, Irving
police officer Aubrey Hawkins, 29; the other, prison escapee and
villain Larry Harper, 37.
It was Christmas Eve when Harper and his fellow fugitives
shot and killed Hawkins as he responded to a robbery call at an
Oshman's sporting goods store in Irving. Before their capture, cit-
izens of Texas and the country watched and waited as reported
sightings of the seven proved to be false alarms, much to the cha-
grin of law enforcement authorities.
What both men have in common is that, as unsettling as the
entire ordeal is, both became statistics of gun violence in the
United States.
Guns cause more than 30,000 deaths and 60,000 injuries a year
in the United States, estimates the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
That’s almost 12 deaths for every 100,000 people in this coun-
try.
Laws to restrict the sale of firearms have been passed and
vetoed again and again for years. However, most pro-firearm
activists are quick to point out that it’s the very few highly notori-
ous criminals that give gun owners a bad rap.
Sporting goods stores, such as the local Oshman’s Supersports,
do their best to ensure that no gun falls into the hands of those with
evil intentions. The acts of the “Texas Seven” portrayed what can
happen when firearms fall into the wrong
hands, but how is this occurrence prevent-
ed on a day-to-day basis when firearm
transactions take place the legal way?
“The first thing that happens is we
have our customers fill out the ATF 4473.
That’s our standard background check
form,” said Patsy Mahfouz, Oshman’s
assistant store manager. “We check the
form for any errors. Then, after that, we
call NICS Background Operations Center
with the information from the form, and
they process it. The response we get is
either to proceed or to delay. The delay
can take up to three days maximum,
although it can be called back within 30
minutes to 24 hours. Most of the time, cus-
tomers who get a “proceed” will take the
gun home that day, following the back-
ground check.”
In certain instances, a customer will
not have to go through a background
See GUNS, page 2
Black History Month
Motown founder overcame failure
Kasey A. Jordan
UP staff writer
League play for intramural basket-
ball will kick off Sunday in McDonald
Gym. Twenty-two teams have signed up
to play on Tuesday, Thursday and
Sunday nights for about five weeks of
games.
The teams consist of men’s indepen-
dent and greek (fraternities), women’s
independent and greek (sororities), and
a co-rec league composed of men and
women. All Lamar students and LIT stu-
dents are eligible for play, excluding
members of the LU men’s and women’s
basketball teams.
“They (LU basketball team mem-
bers) are eligible to play any other
sport,” said Ryan White, intramurals
coordinator. “They just can’t play the
intramural sport that they play for the
university.”
All Lamar students and LIT
students are eligible for
play, excluding members of
the LU men’s and women’s
basketball teams.
„ Each team is required to pay a $15
forfeit fee upon registration, which is
fully refundable unless the team should
forfeit at some point during the intra-
mural season.
Each league will have a champion at
the end of the season, who will play in a
championship game.
“There’s a champion for each divi-
sion,” White said. “For instance, in flag
football we had the independent league
and we had the,greek league. The inde-
pendent champions out of all the inde-
pendent teams played the greek champi-
ons for the university championship.
That’s how it’s set up.”
Because there is also a co-rec league
for intramural basketball, some changes
may be made in the championship tour-
nament.
The games will have two 20-minute
halves with a five-minute break. Each
game will last approximately 45 minutes.
Seventeen trained student officials will
referee the intramurals.
“Any student who is interested in
officiating or refereeing any sport, all
they have to do is come here (rec sports
office) and sign up. We provide the
training for them,” White said.
For those not interested in basket-
P ball, the department will offer other
|intramural sports this spring.
$| . “We’ve got a pretty full schedule for
the spring,” White said. “We’ve got bas-
ketball, indoor soccer, golf, racquetball,
softball, and we’ve got a three-sport
challenge. We’ve got a mini-triathlon
and then we’ve got the homecoming 5K
run coming up on March 3.”
Berry Gordy Jr.
Text and photos by Mike Tobias
Dennis Kutac
UP staff writer
Success is not always found on the first try. It
often involves failing, learning from mistakes and
undertaking that course again. Such is the story of
Berry Gordy Jr., founder of Motown Records.
Gordy was born in Detroit on Nov. 28,1929.
As a young man he was a prizefighter. However,
after seeing a poster for the “Battle of the Bands”
that depicted young fighters who looked like old
men and old musicians that looked like young
men, he decided fighting was not for him.
After serving in the Army for two years, he
returned home to Detroit in 1953 and began oper-
ating a music store that sold only jazz records.
Unfortunately, this business venture was not suc-
cessful and Gordy ended up working on an as-
sembly line in a car manufacturing plant.
The music never left Gordy and he began
writing songs for Jackie Wilson, an former fight-
er. Gordy believed that business success and large
profits did not come from being a music writer
but rather from being a music producer.
He was finally convinced to take a big step
toward becoming an entrepreneur by a 19-year-
old rhythm & blues singer named Smokey
Robinson. Gordy borrowed the money and in
1959 began Motown Records, which became the
largest independent record company in Detroit.
By 1963 the company was recognized for having
its own distinct sound.
Not only was Gordy producing music but also
making records and distributing them. He
See GORDY, page 2
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