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I would suggest the same for you my friend. If you don't like the free speech laws of the USA I am sure that Saddam could accomodate you. Seeya, Shane

Thats great! Man all this construction! You'd think we were a school of 30k+ or something!!!! Keep us informed on the recruits and the stadium info. 1500-2000 would make a nice little place for regional tourneys and stuff heh? Nice way to show HS kids the facilities!! Seeya, Shane

Great to hear good things about the program coach! So are they building a totally new stadium? Hopefully it will be more than the soccer "stadium" is now? any clues as to what it will look like? How many seats etc? Thanks! ShaneB

Shane Bevel, 2000 grad of the NT Journalism dept. Currently living and working on Shreveport. I make every game I can, but I often end up shooting college football on Saturdays in my neck of the woods. Will be at Baylor for sure and hopefully OU this year, not to mention, of course, the NO Bowl. Last year made homecoming, NMSU and NO bowl. Seeya, ShaneB

96, I gotta diagree with you on this one. The football players know what they come here to do. They are here to play football in exchange for a scholarship. That is it nothing more. They don't deserve a reserved parking space anymrore than an acadmic scholar or a music major that goes on to recieve 5 grammy nominations. If they practiced at a place that required an ADDITIONAL parking pass, then I might agree with you. But the fact is that they are required to buy the same pass that all other students buy. If they got to park for free during practice, then they would still have to buy a pass to drive to school. I can't see this issue from any other angle excet that they should be required to buy the same pass as everyone else. Seeya, ShaneB

I am sure they are, I would be too. Ask the people in the astronomy school how the city of denton lights have made the observatory all but useless. But green lights carry much shorter distance. It should be fine. Seeya, Shane

CMJ, you can keep the tower, but I bet the only people there will be the Talons. That really is a long trek, and considering how long it took the Talons to get off their butts and get to the tower at the NMSU game (i paraded around the track twice, carried a goalpost upright and still beat them by 10 mins and they were in the bell carrier!) I think moving it might be a good idea. But how about this. Just put giant green flood lights (I mean giant!!!! light the kind to light huge buildings) in 12 places around the outside of the stadium! Lite the whole big bastard up for the world to see!! Light the tower too, but there should be something across the interstate for all to enjoy. Seeya, Shane

Thats just silly IronMan. Athletes are students first and if the NCAA won't let the U buy them a parking pass, then they should buy it. I feel sure that academic and music scholarship as well as finacial need students have to pay for their passes. If they can't pay the cost of a permit then how are they paying for gas, ins and a car? If they really can't afford it they can take a bus. Thats a silly comment. Seeya, Shane

What a jackass. You gotta be pretty dense to use a stolen parking pass. And even denser to park illegally when you are using a stolen parking pass. Seeya, ShaneB

You get Nora Jones to come back and play in Denton and I will drive all the way from Shreveport and pay $100 a seat. But it better be in the Murchison not in the superpit Seeya, Shane

Contact the music school. They play a major concert every year in Nov. in the Murchison. It is fairly high priced and difficult to get tickets to. They very rarely play for the university events anymore (I think because it cost so much to hire them!) Usually the University uses the 3-4 oclock groups. They used to play at the begining of every semester at Ricks on Fry St. They and the 2 o'clock played the first Monday night of every semester. Cover to get in was $1 and of course it was standing room only. The next week was the 3&4 o'clock followed by the 5&6 the next week and so on until the end of the groups and then they started having small combos play and groups like the Zebras and the Jazz Singers. Then at the begining of the next semester they started over with the lab bands again. Does anyone know if they still do this at another location? What a great way to see the best jazz in the nation! Seeya, ShaneB

Pearl Jam, Harry Connick Jr and Pat Green have all played there. the first two sold out best I remember. I think you would get great midsize acts to play in a huge college town. It just is the thing about getting the university off their ass to do it. UPC (isnt that what it is called?) would be great for booking shows like this, but it takes more effort than showing second run movies at the Lyceum. Everclear just played in Shreveport. The show was booked by LSUS in Shreveport and the students got half priced tickets. Seeya, Shane

Misses deadlines, breaks team policy, quits at halftime....... Are these problems that we want to inherit. I admit to knowing nothing about bball or bball stats, but this guy better be pretty good to make up for all that crap. In addition, LSU isn't doing too shabby without him. I made the road trip down to Red Stick to shoot the LSU/Centenary game this week. The final score was 112-63. Looks like he went to HS here. I will ask around. Seeya, Shane

Both Rick Yeatts and the Daily (on occasion) have strobes hung permenantly in the ceiling. I hate to be blunt, but you just gotta get used to it if you are going to watch college (or pro) basketball. BTW, They have been there for a good amount of time. I think Rick hung his like 5 years ago. For pro or high level college games it is not uncommon for there to be 5-6 sets (at least two most times four) of lights hung for the game. In Shreveport we even have portable lights that we mount in the upper corners of high school gyms for games. Seeya, Shane

Thats a hard loss for the girls. They really played hard and overcame some stuff (player shortage etc) to get there. Seeya Next Year Chicks, Shaneb

Probably a space issue Eric, I don't know what else was in the paper. But I would hope they will use the photogs stuff for a feature story later. Seeya, Shane

How sweet would it be to have two conference champs? Plus track and maybe bball? SunBelt Sweep! Good Luck to the Chicks! Seeya, Shane

Have you worked for the Daily? What is your sequence? And congrats on graduation. Got a job lined up? Seeya, Shane

Love it. Working with kids that is. Fearmongering? I guess I don't see that in that quote. Agree to disagree on politics (I am sure you do that a lot in class I know I did.) Now, lets fight about football or something else important. Seeya, Shane

Awesome! LOve em! Seeya, Shaneb

I like it CMJ, check out this link. It is a searchable database of Ed's most famous quotes. He was one of the greatest, most under read authors of our time. He was also more than a bit crazy at times and a perverted old man to boot. I love him! http://www.abbeyweb.net/quotes.htx Here is a another just for fun. "We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in. Even the maddest murderer of the sweetest wife should get a chance for a run to the sanctuary of the hills. If only for the sport of it. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails." --- Edward Abbey, Defender of the American West. Seeya, Shane

His daughter Jessica Burgess is an alum of *gasp* the journalism department. I am sure she is part of the "liberal media conspiracy" that will give him hell. Seeya, Shane

I am always here Bhud. Just trying to let an ill horse die. Last night and the day before I was in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette covering the Mary Landrieu/Suzie Terrell runoff situation. If that gets you irked I am sorry. It was just a jab. You'll have those from time to time. I have had my fair share. I mistook your homepage for something else (still not sure what it is?). I apologize. And as far as what I have been doing since the nation lost its mind? I have been planning a trip to the Alaskan wilderness to see it before the "GOP" covers it in oil. "We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men." --- Edward Abbey, Desert Anarchist. Seeya, Shane

Standard response for a Teasipper. In any case, I am a poly sci minor and yes I have read the federalist papers and yes I remember the 2k Election. (I think you are talking about the one where the electoral college didn't elect the candidate with the majority of the votes, right?) If you are as smart as you come across I am sure that you can see the conceptual comparison here. "Don't worry your pretty little head about the government, just pay your taxes and we will take care of the rest." "Don't worry your pretty little head about the university, just pay your tuition/alumni dues and we will take care of the rest." Seeya, Shane

Rick, I happen to know the Dallas staff very well and was wondering which one you know who doesn't have a degree. I know of three, out of about 35 staffers that don't have a degree of one kind or another. Not all are in photojournalism. Not sure what you wanted to say in this post. But if you ask around, most newer photojournalists will tell you that it is a very difficult field to break into without a degree and an internship or two. The world of photojournalism is quickly changing and UNT, WKU, Mizzou, Fla and a few others are leading the way. But you are right. You have to do something with your degree and (in the case of a photojournalist) your vison to get anywhere in life. There are many journalists who do not have degrees in journalism, but there are many more who do. Seeya, Shane