For all the information about Southeastern Homecoming events, visit the Remember the Lions Homecoming link or contact the Alumni Association at 985-549-2150 or 1-800-SLU-ALUM. It’s Homecoming Week! Homecoming at Southeastern is a whole new ball game. For the first time in 18 years, the university’s annual week-long celebration of green-and-gold spirit will be centered around football.        “The spirit on our campus and among our alumni and community friends has been strong in the past and continues to grow even stronger with the return of football," said Kathy Pittman, director of Alumni Relations. "The tradition of football and Homecoming went together at Southeastern for 50 years, so it is really exciting to be returning to that tradition. We look forward to the many alumni and friends who will be returning to campus to share the weekend with us."       The Dream Team, Southeastern’s student Homecoming committee, has chosen “Remember the Lions” as the 2003 theme. Special features of the week include the dedication on Homecoming Day, Oct. 18, of “Walls of Honor” in each of the university’s academic college recognizing the donors of endowed scholarships, professorships and chairs, and the Alumni Awards banquet on Homecoming Eve.        Homecoming fun begins with a kick-off pep rally at noon on Oct. 13 in the War Memorial Student Union, featuring the introduction of the 2003 Homecoming court, coaches and athletes, and performances by the cheerleaders and Lionettes dance team. Student activities during the week include a “Fear Factor” style games night on Tuesday, Oct. 14, the Gumbo Ya Ya fest on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and the annual “Tons of Fun” food drive on Thursday, Oct. 16.       Also throughout the week, the College of Business and Technology will celebrate its annual “Business and Technology Week,” bringing business and industry leaders into classrooms as guest speakers. University faculty will also compete to create the best “Lion Lesson,” a classroom activity that both promotes their excitement about Homecoming. On Tuesday, faculty and student teams will flex their intellectual muscles in Phi Kappa Phi’s Homecoming Quiz Bowl.        Homecoming activity will be turned up a notch on Thursday, when judges will decide which downtown Hammond businesses have created the best green and gold decorations, the FE-Lions women’s luncheon takes place at noon at the Alumni Center, and a special exhibit of artworks by alumni opens with a 5-7:30 p.m. reception at Sims Memorial Library.       Then, on Friday, October 17 – Homecoming Eve – the action really heats up. Campus tours will be offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., starting at the Admissions office in Building A on North Campus. For $100 per player, participants can also sign up as individuals or by teams for the Homecoming Golf Scramble at Carter Plantation. Lunch, prizes and refreshments will be provided. For more information or to register, contact Associate Athletic Director Duane Shafer, at (985) 549-5091 or rshafer@selu.edu.       Also on Friday, the Gridiron Club will meet at noon at the Holiday Inn, and the Lyceum Lights faculty lecture series, scheduled for noon at Twelve Oaks, will feature the reminiscences of three retired faculty members: Ellienne Tate, Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of Nursing; James H. Wilcox, Professor Emeritus of Music and Dean Emeritus of the College of Humanities; and Patrick D. Settoon, former Provost and Dean of College of Science and Technology.       Friday evening will feature the Alumni Awards Evening, beginning at 7 p.m. at Twelve Oaks. The major honoree is 1962 graduate Paul Candies, president of Otto Candies Industries, who has been named 2003 Alumnus of the Year. Ken Kenelly (Class of ‘75) will receive the Distinguished Service Award, while Duane Donald (Class of ‘90) will be presented with the L.E. Chandler Award.        Tickets for cocktail buffet event are $15 per person or $120 for a table for eight. Tickets can be ordered online at www.selu.edu/alumni or by calling the Alumni Center, 985-549-2150 or 1-800-SLU-ALUM.       Immediately following the Awards Evening, at 9:15 p.m., the Homecoming bonfire and pep rally will light up the action and the Student Government Association will sponsor a “street dance.” The evening’s activities will all take place on the Alumni Center grounds and will end with a fireworks display, compliments of the Campus Activities Board.       The action begins early on Homecoming Day, Saturday, Oct. 18. Fun things scheduled for the day include free fitness workouts and performances by fitness instructors from 7 a.m. to noon at the Pennington Student Activity Center; campus tours leaving from North Campus Building A from 9 a.m. to noon; live music in the Performance Circle adjacent to the Pottle Music Building; and a variety of games and activities for children from noon to 3 p.m. on Galloway Drive.       Southeastern’s four academic colleges will host open houses on Homecoming morning and will dedicate “Walls of Honor,” special plaques that recognize the donors who have endowed scholarships, professorships and chairs. The open house/dedication schedule is: College of Education and Human Development (Cate Teacher Education Center) -- open house 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., dedication 9:30 a.m.; College of Business and Technology (Garrett Hall) -- open house 10 a.m.-noon, dedication 10:15 a.m.; College of Nursing and Health Sciences (Mims Hall) – open house 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., dedication 11 a.m.; and College of Arts and Sciences (Fayard Hall) – open house 11 a.m.-1 p.m., dedication 11:30 a.m.       A number of groups have planned Homecoming Day reunions, including the Students of the States and music alumni; the Southeastern High School Class of 1953; former Homecoming Queens; members of the undefeated football teams of 1936, 1946, and 1954; fraternities and sororities; members of Gamma Beta Phi; and former residents of Cardinal Newman Hall.       As the excitement builds toward the 4 p.m. Southeastern-Webber International Homecoming game in Strawberry Stadium, the Homecoming parade will roll at 1:30 p.m., and the football team will walk through Friendship Circle to the Student Union at 1:45 p.m. A spirited “second line” will lead fans into Strawberry Stadium at 3:20 p.m. and pre-game festivities will begin at 3:40 p.m.       Those festivities will include performances by the Spirit of the Southland band and band alumni, the Lionettes and cheerleaders, and former members of the Students of the States, who will sing the Southeastern alma mater and the national anthem. Lions gridiron players from 1936, 1946 and 1954 will also be recognized as will the members of the 2003 Homecoming queen and beau courts. The queen and king will be announced and crowned at halftime.       Alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends can cap off Homecoming fun by attending “A Night to Remember,” the African American Alumni Chapter’s Homecoming ball, scheduled for 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., in the War Memorial Student Union ballroom. Tickets for the ball are $25, and the event will begin with a short program followed by dinner, dancing and socializing. Tickets can be purchased at the door or at the the Multicultural and International Student Affairs office, 985-549-3850. Decorating contest winners! Homecoming Building Contest (for academic buildings)      1st Place - CBUS      2nd Place - Southeastern Lab School Homecoming Door Decoration Contest      1st Place - Junior Division      2nd Place - Continuing Education Homecoming Sheet Painting Contest      1st Place - Sigma Sigma Sigma/Sigma Tau Gamma      2nd Place - Alpha Sigma Tau/Theta Chi      3rd Place - Campus Activities Board Homecoming Student Display Contest      1st Place - Sigma Sigma Sigma/Sigma Tau Gamma      2nd Place - Gamma Beta Phi      3rd Place - Baptist Collegiate Ministries Candies named Alumnus of the Year Paul Candies, who heads a Louisiana-based marine transportation and offshore services company, has been named Southeastern Louisiana University’s Alumnus of the Year.       President and Chief Operating Officer of Otto Candies, LLC of Des Allemands, Candies is a 1962 graduate of Southeastern with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He will be formally recognized at Southeastern’s Alumni Awards Banquet on Friday, Oct. 17. The following day, he has been invited to reign as Grand Marshall of the university’s Homecoming Parade, which rolls in Hammond at 1:30 p.m.       Earlier this year Candies endowed the Paul Candies Family Endowed Professorship in Business in Southeastern’s College of Business and Technology. The Candies family has also funded the Otto Candies Endowed Chair in Information Systems at Nicholls State University.       As head of Otto Candies – a firm started in 1942 by his father, the late Otto Candies – he oversees a fleet of more than 100 vessels serving the offshore oil and gas industry worldwide. The company, with offices in Mexico and Argentina, is known as the first to transport an oil production platform from Houston to the United Kingdom drilling area in the North Sea and for its emergency response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.        He joined the company shortly after graduating from Southeastern in 1962, holding a number of positions before being named president in 1991. His two brothers and a number of their children also work in the family business.       Candies served on the board of directors of ArgentBank for 30 years. ArgentBank merged with Hiberna National Bank in 1998 and Candies then served on Hibernia’s Thibodaux city board of directors. In 2002, Candies was elected to Hibernia’s board of directors.       A drag racing enthusiast for many years, Candies’ team became the first two-car team to race each other in the final round at the National Hot Rod Association’s U.S. Nationals in 1976. For their accomplishments over 25 years, the team – composed of Paul Candies and Leonard Hughes –  in 1999 was inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Homecoming fun facts The Homecoming Parade, scheduled for 1:30 p.m., on Homecoming Day, October 18, will begin and end at the Alumni Center. Here’s the route: the parade will pull out of the Alumni Center parking lot onto North General Pershing and turn left on University Ave., right on North Oak, left on East Charles St, right on Cypress, right on Thomas, right on Magnolia,, right on Dakota, left on North Oak, left on University Ave., right on North General Pershing and back into the Alumni Center parking lot. At the Alumni Awards Evening, Ken Kenelly (Class of ‘75), a State Farm Insurance agent from Baton Rouge, will receive the Distinguished Service Award, while Duane Donald (Class of ‘90), a Southeastern marketing instructor, will be presented with the L.E. Chandler Award, which recognizes service to Southeastern students. Kenelly and Donald are both former Southeastern athletes who have been instrumental in the success of Alumni Association and chapter activities. Both have served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. More than two dozen women who reigned over past Southeastern Homecomings will be fetted at a reunion luncheon and will ride in the Homecoming parade. The queens include 1946 Queen Jane McClendon Core and her daughter, 1970 Queen Susan Core Willie. Southeastern’s three undefeated football teams – 1936, 1946 and 1954 – will be honored during pre-game activities in Strawberry Stadium. The honorees will include at least two members of the 1936 team, Walter “Winks” Vinyard of Ponchatoula and Lokey Faller of Hammond. Southeastern’s Spirit of the Southland band is back on the march!. Led by director Trent Davis, it will be joined in the Homecoming parade by  bands from Hammond High School,  Ponchatoula High School, and Loranger High School and the U.S. Marine Corps band. In addition to the bands, the parade will include approximately 50 cars, floats and other units, making it the biggest Homecoming caravan ever. The Students of the States and Southeastern band alumni are reuniting at Homecoming. The Students of the States, a popular Southeastern singing group during the 1960s and 1970s, will perform the Alma Mater and National Anthem at the Homecoming game, while the alumni musicians will join with the Spirit of the Southland band for pre-game and halftime entertainment. Golden mum corsages are a Homecoming tradition! Order yours through the FE-Lions for $7 each. Place your order by Tuesday, Oct. 14 by calling the Alumni Center, 985-549-2150 or 1-800-SLUALUM or Veda Abene at 985-549-2301. A special Homecoming Day activity area has been set aside for kids on Galloway Drive from noon to 3 p.m. Kids can follow a pathway of fun, moving from station to station to jump in a space walk; get their face painted, paint mini-megaphones, make lion puppets, chip golf balls, meet clowns and Yogi the Bear, do a “lion’s roar” imitation, and get their picture taking with Roomie, Southeastern’s mascot. The Pennington Center will be open from 7 a.m.-noon for free fitness workouts: Step/Circuit/Jam, 9 a.m.; Yoga/pilates or spin, 10:15 a.m.; and Abs/Back, 11:45 a.m. At 11:30 a.m., the Recreational Sports and Wellness group fitness instructors will perform, including coordinator Pam Drury, who recently placed second in the Ms. Fitness Louisiana Competition. Homecoming exhibit showcases alumni artists The works of a selection of Southeastern alumni artists will be on display Oct. 16-31 at Sims Memorial Library.       Roy Blackwood, coordinator of Southeastern Education Initiatives at the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum and former head of the Visual Arts Department, said the Homecoming Alumni Art Exhibit will open with a reception from 5-7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 16.       “We plan this to be an annual event during Homecoming,” Blackwood said. “Each year, the exhibit will feature a different group of our talented alumni artists.” He said the current show features more than two dozen works by the 16 artists. Southeastern is celebrating Homecoming October 13-18.        Artists selected for the first exhibit are Carl J. Accardo, Terry Bahm, Lola Jeanette Gregory, Michael A. Gureasko, Suzette M. Lipford, Rebecca A. Lorio, Luz Maria Lopez, Susan Patenotte, Ann M. Stohl, Kim Howes Zabbia, Linda Vise, Patti Pitzer, Dennis Ruiz, Lisa Green, Martin Needum and Toni Tausin.       Blackwood said Lopez’s works, a suite of paintings of Mesoamerican culture illustrating various Mayan, Aztec, Incan and native American myths and stories, will be on display in the lobby of D Vickers Hall. The paintings were commissioned by the university through a Division of the Arts grant and will be permanently exhibited in the recently renovated lobby of the classroom building, which is located across from Sims library.

Kathy Mattea	Phoenix Boys Choir	Roberts Batson

Left, the Capitol Steps; right, Wind Symphony guest Eric Ruske

Tangi Alumni host raffle
The Tangi Alumni Chapter is raffling a “Treasure Crate” ($200) of official Southeastern Athletics goodies, including a Southeastern afghan, two folding chairs, two deluxe stadium cushions, mini football, soft-sided cooler, cups, coffee mugs, umbrella, and other miscellaneous treasures.
      The drawing will be held on Oct. 15. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Tickets can be purchased on campus at the Campus Activities Board Office, Student Union, Room 110
or from Mary Lou Coats in Southeastern Development Office, located at the Alumni Center.

Sponsored Research workshops scheduled for fall 2003
These workshops are provided free of charge. To reserve a place, please register with the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs at 985-549-5312 or e-mail madelmann@selu.edu.
     Wednesday, October 15 – Advice from PIs & Looking At Compliance Issues, 3-4:00 p.m., Tinsley Hall, Room 103. Join us for an informal discussion with current PIs – share their experiences, learn helpful hints, and find out what mistakes to avoid.  Also, this session will address compliance issues. 

From left, Daveda Karanas, Kenya Lawrence, Amanda Tarver Trio of Southeastern singers present arias tonight Fifteen arias and a trio of singers comprise the program for a special recital October 13 at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium.      The free 7:30 p.m. recital is a preview for soprano Kenya Lawrence of Hammond and mezzo-sopranos Daveda Karanas of Mandeville and Amanda Tarver of Prairieville, who will perform the operatic works at the New Orleans-Mobile-Shreveport district auditions of the Gulf Coast Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council at Tulane University on October 18. The singers are all students of Southeastern voice professor Scharmal Schrock.      The singers will perform arias from operas such as Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and “Il Trovatore,” Mozart’s “Cosi fan tuti,” Bizet’s “Carmen,” Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment,” and Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.”      The auditions are a nationwide competition beginning at the National Council's district level and culminating in the National Council Grand Finals Concert at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. More than 2,000 singers audition for the program in 16 regions encompassing the United States, Canada, Australia, and Puerto Rico.

SLWP to showcase best practices Oct. 25
The Southeast Louisiana Writing Project will showcase "Best Practices in Teaching Writing" from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 25 at the University Center.
      The annual event will feature workshops and poster sessions on teaching writing by experienced classroom teachers who are also SLWP consultants, said SLWP Director Richard Louth, a member of Southeastern's English faculty. 
     The Showcase is designed for K-12 teachers who want new, classroom-tested ideas and methods for teaching writing.  Participants will be able to pick up handouts and assignments and to talk one-on-one with Teacher Consultants as well as take part in discussion circles and a writing workshop designed for teachers of all grade levels. 
      Registration will start at 8 a.m.  Poster sessions will last from 8:30- 9:30 a.m., and grade level discussions of teaching writing as well as a writing workshop will follow. 
      Workshop registration is $10 in advanced (by October 23) or $15 at the door. Southeastern education majors get in with $5 and ID. 
      To pre-register, mail a $10 check made payable to Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project to Dr. Richard Louth, Director SLWP, SLU 10327, Hammond, LA 70402. Please include your name, school, grade/subject, address/phone/email.
      For additional information contact Louth  at rlouth@selu.edu or 549-2100/2102.

This week in athletics 
During this week in Southeastern Athletics, the university celebrates Homecoming, culminating with Saturday's football game with Webber International at 4 p.m. in Strawberry Stadium.
      The Lions (2-5) have faced tough competiton over the past several weeks and are hoping to end their five-game losing skid on Saturday. Saturday's opponent, Webber International (2-4), lost to Kentucky Wesleyan, 33-30 in overtime in its last outing.
      The Southeastern volleyball team will return home after splitting two Southland Conference matches on a north Louisiana road swing over the weekend. The Lady Lions (9-9, 3-6 SLC) are entering a crucial stretch in their schedule, as they attempt to advance to the SLC Tournament for the third straight season. Southeastern will play host to Lamar on Friday at 7 p.m and McNeese State on Saturday at 2 p.m.
      The Southeastern women's soccer team is in the midst of its most successful regular season in the program's nine-year history. Southeastern (12-1-1, 7-0 SLC) has won a school-record seven straight matches and has already clinched a spot in the SLC Tournament with five matches to play. The Lady Lions will look to protect their first place standing in the conference standings when they travel to McNeese State for a 4 p.m. match on Friday. On Sunday, Southeastern will head to Nacogdoches, Texas for a 2 p.m. match with second-place Stephen F. Austin, who finished the weekend with a 6-1 record in SLC play.
      The men's golf team returns to action this week, competing in the SMU Invitational on Monday and Tuesday in McKinney, Texas. The Lions have posted top-five finishes in all three of their fall tournaments.
     The Southeastern cross country team will compete in the Sam Houston State Invitational on Friday in the final competition before the Southland Conference Championships on Nov. 3. The meet will provide a good indication of where the Lions and Lady Lions stand in the SLC, as eight of the conference's 11 teams will compete in the meet.
      The men's tennis team will compete in the Omni Regional South in Memphis, Tenn. this week. The tournament runs from Thursday-Monday. The women's team will be at the Omni Regional Southwest in Fort Worth, Texas from Friday-Monday.
Monday, October 13
      Men's Golf, at SMU Invitaional, McKinney, Texas, All Day
Tuesday, October 14
      Men's Golf, at SMU Invitational , McKinney, Texas, All Day
Thursday, October 16
      Men's Tennis, at Omni Regional South, Memphis, Tenn., All Day
Friday, October 17
      Women's Volleyball, vs. Lamar, University Center, 7 p.m.
      Women's Soccer, at McNeese State, Lake Charles, 4 p.m.
      Men's & Women's Cross Country, at Sam Houston Invitational, Huntsville, Texas, TBA
      Men's Tennis, at Omni Regional South, Memphis, Tenn., All Day
      Women's Tennis, at Omni Regional Southwest, Fort Worth, Texas, All Day
Saturday, October 18
      Women's Volleyball, vs. McNeese State, University Center, 2 p.m.
      Men's Tennis, at Omni Regional South, Memphis, Tenn., All Day
      Women's Tennis, at Omni Regional Southwest, Fort Worth, Texas, All Day 
      Football, vs. Webber International (Homecoming), Strawberry Stadium, 4 p.m.
Sunday, October 19
      Women's Soccer, at Stephen F. Austin, Nacogdoches, Texas, 2 p.m.
      Men's Tennis, at Omni Regional South, Memphis, Tenn., All Day
      Women's Tennis, at Omni Regional Southwest, Fort Worth, Texas, All Day

The Importance of Diversity at Discovery-Southeastern Family Resource Project
Discovery-Southeastern Family Resource Project is proud that it has created a multicultural workplace that addresses the issues of racism. Discovery is a community-based agency operated by the Southeastern Social Work Program in the Department of Human Development.
      “When we were putting Discovery together a little more than four years ago,” said Discovery Directory Jerry Patton, “I recognized that we had an obligation to create a model multicultural agency.  As a university-based program it was important that we not only talked the talk, but walked the walk.” 
      Discovery’s staff at present is not only multi-cultural, it is multi-national. It consists of an equal number of people of color and whites and includes two foreign-born master level social workers, an Asian American and an African from Zimbabwe. 
      Patton points out that the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics leaves no question that social workers must be at the forefront of addressing issues of oppression. The Code states: “Social workers are sensitive to cultural and ethnic diversity and strive to end discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice.”
      To meet this ethical mandate, the program has always scheduled monthly in-house discussions on racism. Approximately three years ago, the program joined with several other agencies in Baton Rouge to form CURES (Collaborative for Undoing Racist Effects in Society).
      “If nothing else,” Patton said, “the in-house and community forums put our social workers and interns in situations where the issues of discrimination and institutional racism are openly discussed. You can’t begin to address change if you can’t talk about a subject, and in America, there is a great deal of pressure not to discuss racism outside your own racial group.” 
      Patton said, “All of our staff members have gone through trainings on diversity and undoing racism.  The program has sponsored or co-sponsored free community based educational workshops featuring nationally known therapists such as Nancy Boyd Franklin and Ken Hardy. About a year ago,” Patton added, “I addressed the need for multicultural training with the heads of a major state agency.”
     Patton believes that the program’s emphasis on diversity training is equally important to the futures of the program’s social workers and interns. “Discovery is a generalist social work agency,” Patton said.  “We expect our participants to become leaders. America is changing; the world is shrinking. The leaders of tomorrow must be trained and comfortable interacting within a multi-cultural context.” 

Professional activities
Dr. Debbie Johnson, Dr. Peggy Rolling (Family and Consumer Sciences), and Dr. Michael Burnett from LSU published "Comparison of Internet and Traditional Classroom Instruction in a Consumer Economics Course" in the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Vol, 20, No. 2. 
      Dr. James Hu and Mrs. Grace Hu (Computer Science), and Dr. Edward Chen of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell presented a paper entitled “Prototyping a Web-Based Learning Aid” at the 2003 International Association for Computing Information Systems (IACIS) Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct. 1-4. 
      Dr. Barbara Forrest (History and Political Science) participated in a panel presentation at the sixth annual conference of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law at Indiana University School of Law. The session was entitled "Intelligent Design Creationism: An Establishment of Religion." Other panel members were biologist John Lynch of Arizona State University, Dennis Hirsch, professor of law at Capital Law School in Ohio, and Steve Gey, professor of law at Florida State University.
      Dr. Jeff Totten (Marketing & Finance) presented his paper "Teaching Retailing: Challenges and Experiences," on Thursday, Oct. 2, at the Atlantic Marketing Association conference in Portland, Maine. Also at the conference, Dr. Mike Jones (Marketing & Finance) presented his co-authored paper "The Status of Baseball Among African-American Middle School Students: A Marketing Challenge for the Sport." Co-authors are Dr. Totten and Dr. Sandra McKay (Marketing & Finance). Dr. Jones and  Lisa Jones (Marketing & Finance) presented two other co-authored papers at the same conference -- "Physician Advertising and Marketing--A Preliminary Investigation" and "The Business of Dentistry--The Marketing and Advertising of a Profession." Co-authors of both papers are Dr. Roger McKinney and Dr. Leo Upchurch of Tuskegee University.
      Dr. Evelyne M. Bornier and Mrs. Aileen Mootoo (Foreign Languages and Literatures) were awarded a $650 Teaching Enhancement Grant to purchase French DVDs for the Foreign Language Resource Center.
      KSLU general manager Wayne Cain and program director Todd Delaney spoke  to three periods of teacher Monica Sullivan's Survey of Fine Arts class on Thursday, Oct. 2 at Hammond High School. The class is adapting three children's stories for radio broadcast on KSLU. Cain and Delaney's presentation covered script structure, use of sound effects, FCC guidelines, and story  development. Cain and Delaney also gave critiques of scripts in progress  and are to return to give feedback when scripts are completed. 
      KSLU's Rusty Gregoire (aka DJ Feenix) interviewed Name Records recording artist Troy Johnson live in the KSLU studios Tuesday, Sept. 30. Johnson, whose new single "Fingertips" is receiving national airplay, stopped by the studios while traveling between concerts in Beaumont, Texas, and Nashville, Tenn. Johnson, who performed several songs from his latest CD, spoke about the songwriting process and the thrill of having a song that he wrote ("Some Days You Gotta Dance") appear on the Dixie Chicks multi-platinum CD "Fly." He said an even bigger moment was seeing James Taylor join them in a performance of his song. KSLU  was one of the first stations in the country to air the record. Program Director Todd Delaney, who prepared questions for the interview, said the station is looking to do more live performances by artists in the future and categorized this one as "one of the best I've ever heard. We were right up there with World Cafe (a syndicated interview/performance show produced  by WXPN in Philadelphia) today." In the recent past KSLU has featured live performances and interviews by James Bass, winner of the  KSLU/SugaCane's Hot August Blues contest,  Jonathan Long, first runner-up  in the contest, and Driftwood, a local band featuring former Southeastern instructor Robert Calmes.
      90.9 KSLU broadcast live from the Brown Bag in the Park concert in Cate Square Friday, Sept. 26 from 11-1 p.m. to help kick off Fanfare 2003. Todd Delaney, Liz Black, and Wayne Cain were on hand for the event and interviewed Fanfare director Donna Gay Anderson; Kathy Stuart, interim president of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce; and  Julie Stahly, program director of the International House of Blues Foundation.