Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after working as a laundress for 75 years, she donated $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi for scholarships for black students...
...fifth straight season, the Crimson went 0-4 against the southern juggernauts. Two of the games were close--in the first Princeton game, the Tigers needed a last-minute three-pointer by Sydney Johnson to ice it, while Hill's last-second shot rattled in and out at Penn--but the Crimson couldn't prevail...
...Rodney King riots broke out in Los Angeles, John A. Capello '96 was one of the only white students at Southern University, a historically black college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was standing outside the music building when a group of students approached him and yelled "Kill him!" The group laughed it off, but for Capello the incident sparked a concern with social identity that took him on an interesting detour from his goal of becoming a professional musician...
...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...