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Features I Wednesday, April 20,1988 THE GAMECOCK 5 M Student Orieni preparing to g By GAIL BUCHANAN Staff writer USC's Student Orientation Leaders say they want to give something back to the people who helped them adapt to college. "A lot of people have helped mc out, and I want to reciprocate as much as possible before I graduate," said Terrence Manigault, a marketing/management junior and 1988 Student Orientation Leader. Manigault and 16 other USC Student Orientation Leaders will do just that this summer by leading incominR freshmen during orientation. To get a jump on the fun, the student orientation leaders participated in the Southern Regional Orientation Workshop held April 8 through 10 and hosted by Mississippi State University at Starkville, Miss. Under the leadership of Harrison Greenlaw, director of orientation, and Sam McDadi and Jeff Takac, graduate coordinators, the 16 students embarked on the 10-hour trip to the Mississippi State workshop. The workshop consisted of competitions in song, spirit, skit, College Bowl and overall performance. The USC team received awards in four of the five iC5. USC placed second among some 60 schools in overall performance throughout the workshop. USC's Student Orientation Leaders placed second in Brainstrain (College Bowl), fourth in spirit and fourth in skit. Names in the news What's new with ti flb U. Tltn A 1_? 1 ? ^ ?j mm; naauimtcu rrcss FATERSON, ANNAPOLIS, Md. ? Pulitzer principal Joe Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn fame for his n< Brooks has three words of advice for his habit of cai aspiring bards: Write the truth. around school < "Poetry is life distilled," said his message acrt Brooks, who gave a talk Sunday in inspired a movi Annapolis. "I just write about the Clark is popu things that excite me, or interest me, cuit and has b< or just make me." said James Wa In six decades of writing, Brooks ecutive with K has turned her works to hard-hitting Washington-bai topics such as Winnie Mandela's "The guy is i struggle in South Africa. But she has hundreds of not ignored images and meanings of Walker said Mi life's simpler things. "I deliver i Brooks, the 70-year-old Poet wants to hear Laureate of Illinois, spoke as part of Hispanics," st the Langston Hughes Lecture Series Eastside ^iigh ! A " " sponsored by Mount Moriah African the doldrums o Methddist Church. tion, especially In addition to winning the 1955 what blacks m Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Annie image of ours< Allen," Ms. Brooks has published 17 participate in books of verse. country." Howtor i m <*** ifiliirt #^ IHHBHk. Wim** i(p| ^bssis * ji; - y ' UEUm ' HIHBPpffiBB? J ..,' / . . ,- ~z.~_.--i\aa tation Leaders uide freshmen Former USC leader John Herron received the 1987 Student Leadership Award for the Southeastern Region. "We went into the conference with energy and all Carolina's spirit," Manigault said. The orientation leaders begin work early this summer ? with parents and students armed with every possible question. But the orientation leaders arm themselves with every possible answer. "We basically know everything about this campus," said Buffy Schwegler, a psychology sophomore and orientation leader. Student Orientation Leaders are required to take a class in which they learn everything from all the undergraduate and graduate colleges and what degrees they offer to what every office is in the Russell House, Schwegler said. The Mississippi State workshop included about six sessions per hour on such topics as "Student Orientation Leader recruitment" and "how to be a better leader," said Kim Sousa, an advertising junior. Peer advising is another program. During the fall semester, the leaders will advise new freshmen who have questions or problems. "We will be working office hours next semester, and if a freshman has a problem or a question, they can come 1 in," Sousa said. When the students get their full of being "beaten to i death" with USC facts and trivia, they just remember the Konafitc nf >U. ~-l ??~ ? *- *' 1 " i uvuviiva ui nit UMtnittUUll piUgltUIl lO II1CITI5CIVCS auQ to the incoming freshmen. he rich and famous N.J. ? High school LOS ANGELES ? 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