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Show FISH HEADS, KIDNEYS SPELL COMIC RELIEF, SUs annual Jubilee Talent DOWNEYS LIFE IS NO BAG OF FEATHERS. SUs JoDee Downey Show featured poetry readings, musical selections, and and night. By day, shes student and cross and by night runner country shes paid to help others sleep. SEE PAGE 10. a impersonations which made for SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE the go day a full evenings entertainment. SEE PAGE 9. 85TH YEAR; NUMBER 6 is on CEDAR CP" T TTAH full-tim- e THURSDAY' n, 1990 Homecoming luau, parade still to come Amidst the activities of Homecoming week, still more to come. Tonight, a major concert by the contemporary country western group Restless Heart will be in the Centrum. The local Virgin River Band will open the show. Tickets, still available, are $12 with student I.D., $14 without. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Library fund. Friday night will be a Rastafari Luau on the Upper Quad. The luau will feature food, games and booths sponsored by SUSC clubs and local businesses, as well as music by Caribbean Superstars. The activities will begin at 7 p.m. and b? followed by a dance on the Quad at 9 p.m. Admission is $2 per person. Saturday events will begin with the Homecoming Parade at 9:30 a.m. Following a campus tradition of honoring a neighboring theres (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) The Homecoming Queen royalty includes from left attendant Candice Giles, a sophomore business major from Cedar City; Queen Michelle Dutson, a senior communication major from Salt Lake; and senior Stacey Reed, a business adminstration major from LaVeme, Calif. The royalty will reign over Homecoming Week activities which last through Saturday. Queen Dutson to reign over Homecoming Week REVIEW BY DEANNA HYMAS Tuesdays 1990 Homecoming queen pageant, which saw senior communication major Michelle Dutson crowned, may not have been as formal as the Miss America Pageant but it was just as entertaining. It has been more than a decade since the last Homecoming queen pageant at SUSC, perhaps explaining why contestants and the audience werent quite sure how to act during the program. At the least, contestants and audience members didnt act as those in other pageants. Even Dutson shared her facetious attitude with the audience while she was on stage. During the impromptu question portion of the pageant, she demanded to know why her question did not relate to her telecommunication major and she sarcastically shook the hands of her first attendant, Candice Giles and her second attendant, Stacey Reed. Although the audience seemed to enjoy this, her behavior seemed rather inappropriate for a serious pageant. Certainly Dutson wasnt alone in her comedic behavior. Marilyn Alldredge used her theatre experience as she effectively played the part of the pageant clown. Clinging to and tugging on her dress most of the evening, she wandered around stage with a lost, dazed expression. Her empty smile caused Gordon Birch and Tony Garcia to laugh, along with most of the audience, during their serenade to the contestants. The actions of the contestants may have been influenced by the responses of the audience and vice versa. Whichever the case, the unpreparedness of the contestants during the opening production number brought laughter from the audience. Once the comic tone was set, the audience responded with loud guffaws at subsequent pageant goofs. The program didnt exactly move smoothly from one portion to another either. Breaks between pageant contests were filled either with performances or silence. Improvised performances included Master of Ceremonies Roger Bean previewing the upcoming events of Homecoming week and Brown Sugar performing a new song, along with several somewhat indecent sound effects. Despite the gliches in the program, the organizers who planned events showed insight. A slide show of the contestants when they were younger was compiled with musical accompaniment by Birch and Garcia. Another innovation to typical pageant fare required the contestants to wear period costumes instead of the usual swimsuits. The period costumes were designed and modeled by the contestants who explained the meaning behind the costume. The costumes ranged from 1970s boogie wear to a Thunderbird costume complete with feathers. Keeping consistent with the idea behind the period costumes, the judging was based on more than beauty. Before the pageant, contestants were judged on community and campus involvement, grades and contestant interviews. |