Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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k Man Dobbins will publicize it more and try to draw more girls into the pageant. The Miss LSU pageant is a preliminary pageant for the Miss Louisiana and Miss America pageants. Haynes said, The way society views pageants is changing and the Miss America pageant reflects that. Phoebe Rice Man IXibbms Catherine Lanier, sponsored by Scotch Guard, smiles as she recieves her award for second runner-up. Her evening gown was a lull-length sequined purple dress and she performed a magic routine in the talent competition. .Melissa Roy. sponsored by Sigma Nu fraternity, performs her swimsuit model- ing routine for the panel of judges. She sang Something ' s Coming for the ta lent competition. Miss L.SU 23

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w Michelle Ploue, sponsored by Sigma Chi fraternity, dominated the competition by winning the talent and swimsuit competi- tions on her way to the overall title. She later finished third runner-up in the state pageant. Touch of Royalty ?louc Receives Crown 1988 marked the sixth year that the Miss LSU pageant was sponsored by Phi Mu sorority. The pageant serves as a fund rais- er for their philanthropy. Project HOPE. Campus organizations sponsor girls for the pageant and an organization can sponsor as many girls as it likes. The pageant has a panel of judges, usually consisting of three men and two women. The girls are judged on talent, swim suit, evening gown, and inter- view. Fifty percent of the com- petition is judged on talent and the other fifty percent is divided among swimsuit, evening gown, and the interview. Workshops are held before the pageant to help the girls prepare for each category of competition. Elizabeth Haynes, the director of this year ' s pageant said, The pageant has gained a lot of suc- cess in the past five years, but last year it did not get as much public- ity as I had hoped. This year we Tena Rester, sponsored by Zeta Tau Alpha, performs a mime routine, culmi- nating in this pose with a self-portrait. 22 Miss i su

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Did you notice several fellow students affiliated with the Greek system of L.S.U. staggering into your morning classes late last semester? These were most like- ly not the after-effects of notor- iously wild Greek parties raging throughout the night, but rather those of the ritual of belting out ballads. These were the dedi- cated members of the six groups who participated in Songfest ' 88. The annual event causes numerous late arrivals, late assignments, and late nights. In one sorority member ' s quite adequate words. We were up until two-thirty and three a.m. It got to the point where we didn ' t know what we were singir g. they were making us jump up and down to stay awake! Practices all over campus were rumored to have been running late into the night and beginning to resemble parties the later it got. We all began heading over to Mako ' s af- ter practices to dance. The place was deserted and they were play- ing disco music. It became kind of tradition afterwards. oneTri- Delt confessed. But however Hard Practice and Partying Make ongfest Memorable As if paying homage to the Power of Song they hoped to convey during song- fest, members of Delta Zeta and Sigma Nu try to exhibit the utmost of show- manship for the songfest judges.