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Students get ready
for final-exam stress
BY MARY PINCKNEY WATERS
THE UAMECOfiK
For first-year business student
Micheal Munafo, exam week is
more than just a spring headache
— the weight of his scholarship
is in the balance.
“If I don’t da well, I know I’ll
lose my LIFE scholarship, so that
definitely pushes me,” he said.
^ With exams starting Friday,
Pltudents are gearing up to ex
hibit a semester’s worth of work
on a few final exams. Surviving
the tests doesn’t have to be a
punishing experience, though;
there are many steps students
can take to minimize stress and
maximize their chances of a
good grade.
“The best advice is don’t wait
until the day before the exam to
start studying," said Mary Stuart
Hunter, director of the National
Resource Center for the First
Year Experience and Students in
Transition. “Definitely avoid pro
crastination.”
Not only should students begin
studying in advance, but they
should plan their study sessions
beforehand, taking into consid
eration the amount of time each
“The best advice is
don’t wait until the
day before the exam
to start studying.”
MARY STUART HUNTER
DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL RESOURCE
CENTER FOR THE FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE
AND STUDENTS IN TRANSITION
subject will require, the environ
ment with the least distractions
and the benefit of consulting
classmates.
“I study for each class a certain
amount each day. I like to plan
what I want to study,” Munafo
said.
Taking frequent breaks dur
ing study periods also helps
maintain a high level of alert
ness. “I would recommend walk
ing around and stretching your
legs at least every hour,” Hunter
said.
She thinks cooperative learn
ing can be very beneficial, as
long as groups remain small
enough to keep focus. “Group
studying can be especially help
ful when one person explains the
♦ EXAMS, SEE PAGE 3
Throwing for par
PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK
Lindsey Dupree, a second-year accounting student, learns how to play disc golf on the Horseshoe yesterday. The sport Is
surprisingly popular; its governing body, the Professional Disc Golf Association, has more than 16,000 members.
USO student to vie for pageant crown
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PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK
Stephanie Horton, a self-professed tomboy, was
crowned Miss South Carolina Teen USA.
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in Miss Teen USA competition in August
BY JULIA KNETZER
THK (iAMECOCK
USC cheerleader Stephanie Horton
calls herself “kind of a tomboy,” but be
ing crowned Miss South Carolina Teen
USA in November might just be the best
thing that has ever happened to her, she
said.
“Winning this was really cool,” she
said.
Now, the first-year biology student
will represent the state in the Miss Teen
USA pageant. The exact date and loca
tion of the pageant have not been re
leased yet, but the contest will be some
time in August.
During her reign as Miss Teen South
Carolina, Horton, 18, has visited schools
to speak against drugs, alcohol and vio
lence. “I just want to talk about making
good decisions,” she said.
Horton said she has not been able to
do as much with her title as she wants
because she has been busy with school.
She said she hopes that, with school end
ing soon, she will be able to do more.
“I just really want to get more in
volved in the community,” she said.
Horton, who was crowned Miss
Sumter Teen USA last year and Miss
Lexington Teen USA this year, said she
became interested in pageants by watch
ing them on television.
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“I just saw a pageant on TV and
asked my mom if I could do it,” she said.
Her mother told her she could start com
peting when she got her braces off, said
Horton, who has been competing for two
and a half years.
Horton isn’t the only one in her fam
ily with ties to beauty pageants. Her
twin sister, Stacey, a student at Wofford
College, entered and won the Miss
South Carolina National Teenager
pageant, her first competition. She will
compete in the national competition
this summer. Horton said that when her
sister won, it was the “happiest day of
my life.”
Because Horton and her sister will
both be competing nationally this sum
mer, Horton said, she hopes the
pageants do not conflict so they can sup
port each other.
Horton doesn’t totally conform to ei
ther the tomboy or the beauty-queen im
age. Pink is “such a girl color,” she said,
but the color has become her favorite
after she’s worn it in so many pageants.
“I just try to be me all the time,” she
said. “I’m just pretty stuck to my morals
and my values,” she said.
She said she identifies with a partic
ular passage from “The Scarlet Letter,”
by Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Be true. Be
♦ PAGEANT, SEE PAGE 3
This summer
at Carolina
MCKISSICK MUSEUM
BY JESSICA FOSTER
THE GAMECOCK
USC’s McKissick Museum will play host to a variety of col
lections, exhibitions and events this sunyner, varying in topic
from folk art to Gullah dolls to family silver.
This summer, the museum will have a permanent collec
tion of the Baruch family silver, a collection of more than 450
pieces of British silver from the 18th and early 19th centuries.
The collection was donated to USC in 1965 by the Bernard
Mannes Baruch estate and was assembled in the early 20th
century by Baruch’s wife, Annie Griffen Baruch.
The museum will also have on permanent display the
Lawrence L. Smith Mineral Collection, including hundreds of
minerals from throughout the world. Gold from South Carolina,
amethyst from Brazil, malachite from Namibia, fluorite from
England and skutterudite from Morocco will be among the
minerals on display.
The faculty art exhibition will run through July 13 and will
feature recent works in two- and three-dimensional media by
members of USC’s Art Department studio.
An exhibition of hand-drawn lithographs by Jonathan Green
called “Sharing the Chores: Works on Paper” will also be shown
♦ MCKISSICK, SEE PAGE 2
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK
BY JESSICA CLANTON
THE GAMECOCK
As the school year comes to an end, the School of Music
looks to showcase its students, faculty and alumni in various
free or inexpensive recitals and concerts to entertain students
around exam time.
“I want to remind students that there are a variety of art
events throughout every month and a part of their education
should include watching live art, whether it be theater, mu
sic, visual, or dance. All of which are offered throughout cam
pus for free or nominal charges,” said Andrew Gowan, asso
ciate dean and associate professor of saxophone in the School of
Music.
Events for next month will begin Thursday with a violin
and viola studio recital. Students of music faculty member
William Terwilliger will perform works of Bach, DeBeriot,
Beethoven, Falla, Viotti, Haydn and Kreisler at 7 p.m.
Friends of the School of Music will hold the fund-raiser
“Swing into Spring" on Sunday. The event, which will feature
swing music, will begin at 6 p.m. and has a $25 admission
charge. All proceeds will benefit the Friend’s Scholarship fund.
For more information, call 576-5763.
♦ MUSIC, SEE PAGE 2
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