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I am woman. Hear me roar!
Quote of the day
March is Women’s History Month. During the coufse of the month, a
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make
series of articles will run celebrating women and their accomplishments.
us love one another.”
— Jonathan Swift
University Press
Friday, March 2, 2001 A Three-Time Associated Press Texas Managing Editors Award Winner Vol. 77, No. 35
Born on the Bayou
Dueling exhibits transform AMSET
Enter into a transformed world of wonder
tonight at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas
during its grand opening of two new exhibits.
The first exhibit features a magical, fanta-
sy land of dream-like paintings by artist Robert
Jessup, an associate professor at the University
of North Texas in Denton.
Jessup will begin this evening’s show with
a lecture at 7 p.m. at the museum located at 500
Main St. in downtown Beaumont.
He uses vividly colored paints to create
surreal images, capturing a precise pause in his
own childlike imagination, Janna Fulbright,
museum director of public relations, said.
The surfaces of his paintings are thickly
covered with rich blends of color composed in
an array that deceivingly convinces the viewer
that different colors were used.
“I mean it’s pretty much every color in the
rainbow taken care of there,” Fulbright said, as
she pointed out one of Jessup’s paintings. “I
thought for certain this was a brown log until I
came up to it, (but) it’s green. A little kid actu-
ally said it looked like melted crayons.”
“Each of the 15 colorful paintings in the
exhibition depicts mysterious, playful and curi-
ous activities,” she said.
Beyond the walls of Jessup’s visual play-
ground is an indoor bayou that serves as the
backdrop for a folk-art display titled “By the
Bayou,” featuring the works of a number of
self-taught artists.
White museum walls were dramatically
transformed into a swampy bayou in one week
by local artist Clint Ray.
“Given the time limitation that I’ve had on
this, basically a week to put it up, I see it as a
backdrop to the real art,” Ray said. “I’m trying
to keep it a little subtle; I’m not trying to put a
whole lot of detail into it.
See AMSET, page 2
Local artist Clint Ray transforms the Art Museum of Southeast Texas into a folk art fantasy land of
Cyprus knees and hanging moss. Ray’s mural serves as the background for “By the Bayou,” an ex-
hibit featuring the works of regional artists. The show opens this evening and runs through June 3.
Text and photo by Kasey A. Jordan
Max Mitchell
Text and photo by Margarito Cervantez III
Mitchell
Good food, good image
new director’s focus
Students on campus need that
extra energy to make those good
grades in classes, and eating well is
an essential part of it. Also, image is
an important facet in the food ser-
vice industry, and Lamar Universi-
ty's new dining hall director Max
Mitchell knows it. In fact, his
Virginia license plate reads * "4
Food."
Mitchell came to Lamar from
Virginia at the beginning of this
semester.
He has come to the campus
through Chartwells Compass
Group, the food service with which
LU has contracted to provide food
services on campus.
Mitchell, who has-been in the
food service business for 15 years,
See CHARTWELLS, page 2
Peacecycle,
CLU to host
discussion of
death penalty
Jenny Achilles
UP staff writer
Amnesty International, “The Peace-
cycle” at Lamar University, and the Sabine
Area Civil Liberties Union will co-host a
panel debate on the death penalty
Wednesday, Vachara “Udi” Pathamo, Am-
nesty International Peacecycle president,
said.
The debate will begin at 6:30 p.m. on the
eighth floor of Gray Library.
The ACLU approached the Peacecycle
and proposed the idea of a debate, Pathamo
said, because of the similar viewpoints of the
two groups on this issue.
The death penalty is a big topic among
Amnesty International groups, he said.
Pathamo said that when he meets members
from other states and they hear he is from
Texas, they immediately ask about the Texas
group’s approach to the death penalty.
They see Texas as more pro-death
penalty than other states, he said.
This may change, however, said Bruce
Drury, professor of political science at
Lamar.
“Basically, the death penalty is under
challenge,” he said.
The Texas Legislature is currently con-
sidering abolishing the death penalty, Drury
said.
DNA is being used more and more in
criminal cases to find that previous convic-
tions were incorrect, he said.
The death penalty is “terribly final,” he
said. •
The debate will be held to enable Lamar
students to learn more about this issue,
Pathamo said.
“I want people to understand why we
have the death penalty in the U.S.,”
Pathamo said.
See PEACE, page 2
Weekend homecoming happenings
FRIDAY
All Day
Red & White Day
(Everyone! Wear LU colors)
1 p.m.
Mud Bowl/Volleyball
Tournament
Morris/Combs
Volleyball Court
SATURDAY
9:30 a.m.
Cardinal Country 5k Fun Run
McDonald Gym
1 p.m.
Men’s Basketball Game
3:45 p.m.
Women’s Basketball Game
Chapter 11
to keep
bookstore
operating
Joshua Cobb
UP editor
Wallace’s Bookstores' Inc. and Wallace
Book Co. Inc. filed petitions for reorganization
under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
on Wednesday, and a financing commitment has
been made that should allow the company to
continue operations during the reorganization.
Wallace’s, based in Lexington, Ky., oper-
ates 92 college and university bookstores,
including those on the campuses of Lamar
University, Lamar State College-Port Arthur
and Lamar State College-Orange.
“This is a very positive step for our stores
here,” Don Weekley, manager of the three local
Wallace’s, said. “Beginning next week, we will
have the funding to offer complete services to
the area campuses and to their students. In fact,
we will have the means to offer better services
than we have had in the past. I want to empha-
size that this is a positive thing for the Lamar
bookstores and for Lamar students. It is also a
positive step for our employees.”
In a press release Wednesday, Wallace’s
also announced the appointment of Clisby M.
Jennelle III as chairman of the board of direc-
tors. Jennelle will continue to serve as chief
executive officer.
The companies have received a financial
commitment of up to $400 million from IBJ
Whitehall Business Credit Corp.
See BOOKSTORE, page 2
Awareness week
to highlight
Islamic culture,
traditions
Catherine Wright
UP staff writer
Islam Awareness Week is taking place
through March 9, an event observed across the
nation and in Canada during the spring semester
in order to educate students and faculty on uni-
versity campuses about Islam.
Mahdi Mekic, president of the Muslim
Student Association, said that, according to the
documentation of the association, there has not
been an awareness week on the Lamar campus
since 1995.
He said that he thinks it is important that
students be aware of the common misrepresen-
See ISLAM, page 2
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