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By Kem Carter
A Greenville native was crowned Miss Black USC
i 1985 Sunday after receiving a standing ovation for
her talent performance.
J Linda Spearman, a freshman electrical engincer:
? ing major, entertained the crowd of more than 700
i : with her presentation of an original monologue en:
j titled "Granny goes to the Movies."
Spearman said she has always enjoyed making
people laugh, and the monologue was her way of in:
spiring laughter.
; "1 want to get involved with everybody and find
: . out what they want Miss Black USC to do for
them," Spearman said.
; The opening ceremony for Black History Month
: preceded the pageant. A welcome, prayer and a
: brief history of the Association of Afro-American
Students, the event's sponsor, was presented. Perry
Stradford, treasurer, summed up the importance of
observing Black History Month.
"rm noping lor tne day when Black History
Month can be incorporated into American
history," Stradford said.
After the opening ceremony, the audience was
welcomed to "An Evening in Paradise." As the
house lights dimmed, the eight contestants danced
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Miss Black USC;
standing ovation
onto the stage in black Danskins to Stevie Wonder's
"Make Me Feel like Paradise." The dance was
choreographed by Harold Odom, a USC graduate
student.
The contestants were l.atanya McDowell, Tracey
Douglas, Melodye Clark, Harriet Joyner, Patricia
Speaks, Stephanie Taylor, Marsha Gordon and
Linda Spearman. The hosts for the pageant were
L.ydia Garrett, Miss Biack America, and Btoderick
Samuel, WLTX-TV anchorman.
Harriet Joyner was first runner-up, and
Stephanie Taylor was second runner-up. Melodye
Clark won the spirit award, Latanya McDowell
won the congeniality award, and Linda Spearman
won the talent competition.
Talent ranged from songs to jaz/.y tap dancing
and monologues. Additional performers were
special guests Carketa Mickle, former Miss Black
Columbia, Cheryl Pittman, the 1984 first runner-up
to Miss Black USC, and Eleanor Jenkins, Miss
Black USC 1984.
In the evening gown competition, the contestants
sauntered on stage to "Almost Paradise."
The reigning queen, Eleanor Jenkins, thanked
friends and supporters for a wonderful year.
"The memory of it will last," she said, blowing a
soft kiss into the audience.
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the Russell House Theatre at 4:30, 7 and 9:30.
Trivialists pursue Col
By Andy Duncan
Do you know the name of the college in "Animal
House?"
Or the only two U.S. presidents to score holes-inone?
Or the singing group responsible for the top five
singles in America on April 4, 1964?
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ii yuu miuw, ui warn 10 Know, any 01 me aDOvc,
you should be in USC's College Bowl competition.
Individuals, groups and campus organizations
that want to play "the varsity sport of the mind"
can sign up in the Carolina Program Union office
on the second floor of the Russell House this week.
The competition will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 11-13 in
The Golden Spur, and the winning team of four
players will go on to represent USC at the College
Bowl rcgionals at East Tennessee State University.
Officials say "Atlanta CI
By Associated Press Cater and Payne
ATLANTA ? Officials involv- young blacks, n
cH in the two-year investigation of children, whose d
the widely publicized series of 22-month period <
murders of young Atlanta^lacks 1981 were investiga
"I say a private screening x)f i con,- * *np'?cc ta^K force* . j
j ' trovefsial moVie abouf the* killing c'Orfvittlon, the "tl
r-l convinced them the city not disbanded, and aui
treated fairly. v,/ ly blamed William
I was very disappointed that it killings, although
portrayed the local media, the charged in any of I
. police and the prosecutors as being The movie, "Th
a bunch or burglars and hatchet Murders," will be
j men, and that couldn't be further segments Feb. 10 i
from the truth," Assistant Cobb It makes the case
County District Attorney Jack was wrongly convii
Mallard said. ings of Cater and F
Mallard was a Fulton County with a statement tl
prosecutor in 1982 when he played assigned to the ta<
a key role in the nine-week trial unsolved.
k that led to the conviction of Wayne "It tended to po
B. Williams on two counts of witnesses as being
* murder in the slayings of Nathaniel away when pressed
Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, indications that thi
? 21. while the defense
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lege Bowl contest
Contestants score points by correctly answering
questions on subjects from science, literature and
current events to movies, music and sports. You
need not be a member of any campus organization
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ror mose wno aiuni Know, inc scnooi in
"Animal House" was Faber College, Eisenhower
and Ford are the only presidents with holes-in-one
to their credit, and The Beatles dominated the
singles chart in April 1964.
The USC College Bowl competition is sponsored
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hild Murders" unfair
were among 29 portrayed as being truthful and
lost of them standing up well under crosseaths
during a examination," Mallard said.
ending in May "That was completely at odds with
a special the truth. g\
\Tttr Williams' - VI don'ttrpnk anybody doubled
" Wrc* was " that It WUs Wfitten tq make m6ney. '
[hr ities public- I don't thi("* there would have
isTor 22 other been such a demand to show a
he was never movie in which Wayne Williams
[hose cases. was guilty. Everybody knows he
e Atlanta Child was found guilty. It had to be
shown in two controversial."
md 12 on CBS. State Sen. Arthur Langford,
: that Williams who organized searches for miss- j
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force remain ministration of former Mayor
Maynard Jackson to solve the
rtray the state's killings.
evasive, looking "The movie showed Maynard
, fidgeting ? all more concerned about conventions
ey were lying ? than the lives of innocent
witnesses were children," Langford said.
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