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By Ward W. Triplclt 111
Contestants for the first Miss Black Bin
Fight Pageant won't start coming to Lin-'
coin until Friday. However, thaf should
not affect the typical pageant components
when the ceremonies begin at 9:30 pan.
Saturday in the Nebraska Union Ballroom.
'"We're going to have the same things in
this pageant that they always have," Dawn
Brown, coordinator of the pageant, said.
We'll have the introduction segment, talent
competition, a question and answer seg
ment and an overall appearance.
"Basically, all the queens have done the
same things at their own pageants. I feel
they're mature women, and this isn't any
thing new to them. We don't have to teach
them how to walk and talk."
The Miss Black Big Fight Pageant is
slightly different from most of the events
during this weekend's Big Fight Confer
ence on Black Student Government. Unlike
the other events, the pageant is sponsored
by the Big Fight Council, the 24-member
(three from each school) legislative body of
the black student governments.
Following a suggestion from African
Peoples Union members last spring, Nebras
ka representatives Charlene Maxey, Fugene
Tolston and Cynthia Gooch took the idea
to the council meeting in Stillwater, Okla.
The council suggested making the event an
annual part of the conference.
Each Big Fight school had a Miss Black
pageant. This year, Missouri and Iowa State
had pageants for the first time.
Brown said she would have liked to
make the pageant more challenging for the
contestants.
"Maybe they would have done a dance
step together and 1 probably would have
tried to add something to the introduc
tion," Brown said.
The contestants will have one rehearsal
at 7 :30 a.m. Saturday, with optional stage
time permitted that afternoon. They will
be judged in four categories by a panel of
eight judges, one from each school.
"1 think it's going to be like any other
pageant . . . if people are out there for you,
they're going to let you know they're
there. I don't think it will develop into any
kind of rivalry between the schools."
As of Friday, Brown said she had heard
from all the contestants except the Okla
homa State representative.
She said the pageant will be worth see
ing because it will be varied.
"We're going to get women from differ
ent schools here to compete," she said,
"Some of them, like Miss Oklahoma, are
from other places outside of the Big Eight
so you can see entertainment from a dif
ferent part of the country."
Brown, who was also instrumental in or
ganizing the Mr. Black Collegiate Pageant
at UNLlast month, said the Miss Black Big
Fight ceremony is important to its contest
ants because of the advancement feature.
"1 watch a lot of pageants on television
and you never see black women advance in
that," she said.
"It just seems like Miss America, for ex
ample, is supposed to represent America,
and people feel that a black woman just
couldn't do that. We have to have a white
queen representing us, but she can't repre
sent me, because I'm not white," she said.
"The Miss Black Big Fight is a small
way to do that, but the queen will be able
to say she represents a whole area, and
other black women can look up to her,"
Brown said.
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Arnold Grinvalds
Mayoral candidate
to'ee vision
amid compassion
By Lisa Davis
Government and its officials need four major qualities:
morality, compassion, intelligence and vision UNL student
mayoral candidate Arnold Grinvalds said Sunday.
"The government lacks these qualities now and what is
needs is someone to come in and take charge," he said,
announcing the platform for his candidacy at Common
place, 333 N. 14th St.
"I feel that educating the public is the most important
thing," he said. People need to be aware of what's going
on and the government is one of the best sources, he said.
Education in schools is very important, Grinvalds said.
Parents don't usually teach their children world realities,
so schools must. Most criminals have problems which stem
from high school, he said. Educating children and making
them want to learn will cut back on the crime rate, he
said.
Grinvalds emphasized Lincoln's need for better
counseling programs and more lenient jailing procedures
for drug abusers. He stressed the need for stricter drunken
driving laws and the importance of controlling the sale of
alcohol by limiting the number of outlets.
If elected mayor, he said he would veto every new
liquor license approved by the Lincoln City Council unless
a more adequate ordinance is passed.
He also said a $10,000 limit should be placed on the
amount of money each candidate running for a govern
ment can spend on campaigning and advertising. Many
times a person gets elected because he has enough money
to advertise extensively, he said. Grinvalds said he is not
spending much money on his campaign and that he is
focusing on letting the public know his stands on issues,
not just advertising his name.
Grinvalds' platform expresses his desire to better
Lincoln's bad points and to promote the city's good
points.
"By emphasizing what Lincoln has to offer, we can
promote tourism and bring in extra revenue for the city,"
he said.
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