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University Press • Friday, October 23,1998 • Page 2
Young matador catches eye of nation, press
MADRID, Spain — In the bullring, “El
Juli” has all the moves: His thick red cape
flows like liquid. He curls his lip in an icy
sneer, right in the snorting face of 1,100
pounds of pure animal rage. After a razor-
close pass, he turns his back and walks off
with a slow, toe-dragging strut,...
Outside the ring, Julian.'Lopez, is .just
another tongue-tied 16-yearmold. The . only
clue to his status as Spanish bullfighting's lat-
est sensation is the crescent-shaped scar ori
his baby face. T'TT"r'!'T
Julian only graduated from ‘“hovillefQ,’T.a
novice who fights younger hulls, at the end.of
the summer. And although he’s the country’s;
youngest-full-fledged matador, he’s not the
first to achieve, that at his age.
His youth and his skill have made a’sub-
stantial impression in the serious arid danger*
ous world of bullfighting — so' much so that
El Juli has caught the attentton‘of a national
press that usually doesn’t pay rriuch attention
to new matadors. 'ZZZHT
Aficionados, meanwhile, are drooling.- El
Juli’s a natural, and the-world is fiis4oxoh-
quer, they say. And he still isn-told eriougfi’to
drive. • i - -i- - r
“He’s -phenomenal. - He-’s -Seen a child
prodigy from the very beginning,”'s"aid Aha
Fernandez, who writes for 6-Tores 6; aleadi
ing bullfighting magazine.— • H « -
Bill Lyon, an American- who has lived in
Spain since 1962 and worked; as a bullfight
critic for several Spanish newspapers, agrees.
“He is definitely the most interesting
novillero in decades,” Lyon said. “He’s got-
ten off to a brilliant start.”
El Juli was carried out of the ring more
than 30 times in a row during the season end-
ing this month — not because he’d been
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Bullfighters are also honored by being
.. awarded one or both of the bqll’s, ears pr, for
‘ a truly exceptional performance, the. tail. El
,o Husselbee -
Continued from page 1
; al of her columns. Six mon-ths'later anbth-
Js er reporter for the Boston Globe was found
i to be a fabricator and a plagiarist.
“In that particular vain, it’s been a bad
- 'year-for•journalism,” •Hussefbhe'said. •■
Fabrication and- plagiarism' -arerih-: the
i only ways ethics applies to journalism,
j: There is also the matter of what is consid-
1 ered to be right or wrong to print.
gg“‘Jl ‘Husselbee feels'that'rif«jouriialists,‘&|ie
2- more open and accountable they would be
Juli has earned 160 ears and nine tails as a
novillero and matador. ■
Julian lives, eats and breathes bullfighting.
And he has done it from the tenderest of
ages, stabbing his first calf at 10 and quitting
school in eighth grade to do nothing but train.
Now, after a stint in .Latin America, to skirt
Spain’s minimum age of 16 for bullfighters,
he is a matador in a World of men twice his
age.
At 5-foot-8, a bull’s horns can reach as
high as his neck.. The bull can
weigh nine times his “132
pounds. Is he afraid? '
“During a bullfight you
feel a lot of .things, not just
fear,” he saidl .“ATdT'of the’
time they’re nice. You feel jit-
ters and responsibility ”
He was at"a “loss".when
asked about the bull itself, the
smell of its blood' on his face'
hands and clothes. “I wouldn’t
know how to, describe.’ it. It
doesn’t smell bad, though.” \
What about the sound'of
the animal dying? He’ doesn’t
know. “It snorts. It breathes,”
he said when pressed, answer-
ing much like a child fending
off parents who ask what he
learned in school that day.
Despite the excitement
over his start, experts say it’s
too soon to say if El Juli has
the stuff of history.
Once the next ^season
begins in March, he wiH be-
scrutinized more closely than
when he was as a novillero.
He’ll face bulls that' aye big-
ger, older and smarter. He’ll
have to fight in the Plaza de
las Ventas jn. Madrid, where
the crowd is famously demanding.
There or anywhere else, if he gets gored
badly it could spook him and hamper his style
for the rest of his career. “A lot can go
wrong,” Lyon said.
For the time being, El Juli is hot. His only
problem is getting used to fame, which makes
him a lot more nervous than bulls do.
“If I had to stand in the arena with a
microphone and say something, I’d be scared
to death,” he said.
Julian Lopez, a 16-year-old bullfighter from
Madrid, is considered one of the sport’s most
promising prodigies.
able to resolve a majority of the problems-
“If we decide to run a front-page picture
of a bloody automobile accident and we’re
going to show dead bodies on the front
page, there- has: to be. a. reason,” Husselbee
said. “We don’t..show..'dead. bodies- on the
front page just to show dead bodies. That
picture has to contain what I call instruc-
tional matter. It has to teach somebody a
lesson, such as< ^Tbisris -whafehappens when
you drive druqls gnjf dqp’t w^ar a.^pgtbelt.’”
The problem, he says, isn’t that newspa-
pers run pictures like that, but they don’t
disclose why they ran the pictures.
“You might not like seeing dead.bodies
with your cornflakes.,L’Jhesaid.,..
- . “But our belief isithat if you show.qjeo-i
pie these types of images without causing
undue harm and you teach them a lesson,
people won’t be as angry or feel we’re run-
ning those pictures just to seJTnewspa-
pers.” ... ,
these make-up cleanups to give
Texas trash the boot,” Maurri said.
“We really need your help, espe-
cially since the storms on the upper
coast were so ferocious.”
A second special cleanup will be
at the O’Quinn 1-45 Esturial
Corridor, beginning at 9 a.m. on
Nov. 7.
To reach the check-in location,
take the Bayou Vista exit of 1-45
South and stay on the feeder road
until you see the Scenic Galveston
canopies. For reservations, call
Evangeline Whorton at 409-762-
3363. Z SZZll
“Co-sponsor Brita Products
Company will provide free pitchers
to everyone who registers to clean
the beach on that Saturday7 while
Southwest Airlines will be giving
some lucky volunteer two round-
trip tickets anywhere Southwest
flies,” Mauro said.
Adopt-a-Beach was started- by
Mauro, who founded the program
and is finishing out his fourth term
in office.
The continuation of the beach
cleanup program will be up to the
next land commissioner, he said.
“Trash on the beach comes from
those people who go to the beach,
from ships sailing in the Gulf of
Mexico, and from inland sources. It
“We really need your
help, especially since the
storms on the upper
coast were so fero-
cious.”
— Gary Mauro
comes down the rivers and into the
Gulf from towns and cities like
Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio
and Houston,” Mauro said. “Then
-that trash washes up on the beach,
endangering not only fish and
wildlife, but the industries that
depend on a clean Gulf of Mexico
and clean beaches for their liveli-
hood.”
One reason for the success of
the program, Mauro said, is the
sponsors, the hundreds of local
businesses and the individuals who
make the cleanups a big success,
and hotels that give volunteers
room discounts.
Mauro said another reason for
the program’s popularity is the
media that cooperates with pro-
moting the planned events.
Anyone interested in joining the
cleanup may contact the SGA
office at 880-8891.
Search-——-
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mont about noon Monday; where he will be given a tour of the city. He
will spend all day Tuesday and Wednesday morning getting acquaint-
ed.with the housing office and the campus entities'that work closely
with the housing office. These include rather lengthy meetings with
Gerald McCaig, physical plant director, and Dale Fontenot, campus
police chief, Perkins said.
Hefner will also meet with other personnel in the division of student
affairs and will tour the residence halls on-campus.'
" Hfe will meet with students;‘faculty and staff at Tp:m. Wednesday in
206 Setzer Student Gbhtet tO'give them'his philosophy of campus hous-
ing and to answer questions raised by the audience.
“This meeting is open to the public,” Perkins said.
...“After the three candidates have visited campus, those making the
nt^ptdpgs will be aslsedijar .thqjf yjpu^:”13Ij
The committee, he said, reviewed, and rated the candidates. It, in
turn, made its recommendations to Kurt Czupryn, vice president for
student affairs. Czupryn will study the responses to the candidates and
make a final decision concerning filling the position.
If all goes well, it is the aim of the university to have a new housing
director on campu’s’bfiginhlhg Jahl.'PCrkm's said.’
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Every cent counts
The University Press staff is aware of Lamar’s place in
the community and our place in history. We know the
Lamar community is aware of this, too.
We would like to thank you for the donations we have
received during the past week. With that in mind, we are
still calling on you to help with the campaign to raise
money for the restoration of the Jefferson Theater.
Remember, every cent counts, so, before you close up
your wallet, please drop your change in the box in front
of the registers in the Lamar University Bookstore.
When restored, the Jefferson will once again be able to
hold musicals, concerts and movies. It will also be able to
be the home of plays, dance recitals and comedies.
Restoring the Jefferson will give Lamar another place
to hold functions such as dance, music and theatrical
performances.
The restoration project is expected to cost about $4
million, and the campaign needs every cent our commu-
nity can spare.
As Beaumonter Dr. Lena Milam used to say, “Giving
and service are the prices one pays for the privilege of
being born.” j
Our change will soon amount to dollars for a cause
that will help us all.
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