Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle
By Benjamin Wermund
May 20, 2016 Updated: May 23, 2016 2:36pm
In the late 1980s, Austin Lane, then a high school senior living in Hackensack, N.J., applied to Texas Southern University.
The historically black institution was the only university that accepted Lane. He and his mother drove down for a campus visit, and Lane was blown away by the school that he hadn't even heard of just months before.
The trees - decked out in the Greek letters and colors of various fraternities and sororities at the urban university - stood out to him. The campus reminded him of what he'd seen on "A Different World," the popular TV show at the time about a predominantly black college.
"I thought, 'Wow, this is a campus,' " he remembered.
Ultimately, Lane couldn't afford the out-of-state tuition, and he instead attended Midland Junior College in West Texas on a basketball scholarship before going to Langston University, the only historically black college in Oklahoma.
Three decades later, Lane finally will get his time at Texas Southern when he takes the helm this summer as its president.
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