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...career. At the bidding of a professor of music he had met at a summer jazz program at the Eastman School of Music, he was granted--without a high school diploma--a full scholarship to study for a performance degree in double-bass at Louisiana State University (LSU). His plan was to study music professionally and to teach jazz at the university level...
...Capello felt that LSU's program was too heavily centered around Western art music, to the exclusion of his main interest in jazz. In the second semester of his sophomore year, he enrolled part-time at Southern University, where he played double-bass and studied jazz in a predominantly African-American environment. His experiences there-- playing in all-black ensembles, feeling sometimes that problems of race inhibited the formation of elementary social relationships, and developing technically as a musician--posed more intellectual questions for him than they answered. He had long harbored a more general interest in social theory...
That summer, Capello left LSU and Southern and moved in with his sister, who was then a senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In Washington, Capello held down three jobs: as a bass teacher in a music store, as a waiter in a local restaurant, and as a free-lance bassist playing two to three gigs a week. Simultaneously, he enrolled in Georgetown and George Washington Universities, where he took college courses in Italian, physics, aesthetics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. And he earned straight...
...LSU first-year Samuel T. Singer, who transferred from Vanderbilt University last fall, justified the younger minimum age on pragmatic grounds. An earlier exposure to alcohol teaches people to drink more responsibly, he said...
...Louisiana with the drinking age being lower, you grew up with it being lower so students are a lot more mature about it," Singer said. "Up at Vanderbilt they were out of control. Here [at LSU], whenever we go out we have designated drivers...