Pageant Winners
 

According to our national website, ADPi has two pageant winners who will compete for Miss America!

Miss Florida
Kylie Williams
Iota, Florida State University
http://www.missflorida.org/Miss%20Florida.htm

Miss North Carolina
Jessica Jacobs
Beta Upsilon, University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill
http://www.missnc.org/about.html

Violets to Kylie and Jessica!

MAJOR Violets indeed!! We're all going to have to turn in, and cheer them on! Hmmmmm.... Maybe we should talk about this on V V!!

And if you don't know what I mean, talk to ASUADPi!!!!

Did anyone else watch Miss Teen America on Friday night? Miss South Carolina was a finalist, and I thought she was a shoo-in until she choked on the Question part. I felt so bad for her, not knowing that...


She is an ADPi at Clemson! Her name is Lindsey Sporrer, and I'll let you judge the rest:


Congratulations to Lindsey, for being a Finalist!!

Miss Teen South Carolina is an ADPi named Lindsey? But the news says that Miss Teen SC was named Lauren Caitlin Upton...I'm confused.

ETA: Mystery solved: Lindsey Sporrer was in the top 15 of the 2004 Miss Teen pagent!

Mystik - you just beat me to it!

Lindsey is the 2004 Miss Teen South Carolina. She is a member of our Zeta Nu chapter at the Clemson. It doesn't look like Lauren Caitlin Upton is a member :).

Thank heavens! I truly felt sorry for Lauren Caitlin Upton - you just know that she'll be kicking herself for the rest of her life!

I didn't watch the pageant but I found a thread (entertainment forum) with a link to her Q&A on youtube. I was shocked. I literally was thinking "how stupid is this girl". I mean I get that the girls are nervous and stuff but from what I know about pageant these girls also TRAIN and to get to Miss Teen USA most have spent years doing local pageants. Her answer was just beyond stupid. EXiADPi said that it looked like Mario Lopez was trying not to laugh at her answer.

I can totally see anti-pageant folks use her answer as an example of that "girls should be focused on thier studies and not pageants". :rolleyes:

It reminded me of watching Miss Universe. Watching that pageant, during the Q&A is just a train wreck waiting to happen. The only ones who usually "understand" the questions are the contestants who speak fluent English. I don't know what happens mid-translation but I just love how the contestants give an answer that has absolutely nothing to do with the question (hence Lauren).

But hey if she ever makes it to Miss Universe (as Miss USA), she should remember to just give a stupid answer that has nothing to do with the question and she'll win (since the last couple of Miss Universes haven't answered their questions "correctly" and end up winning).

What cracks me during the Miss Universe pageants is when they ask for an interpreter, and the interpreter says something different than the contestant!

Yahoo News has a follow up story...here's the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/...south_carolina

And while she's currently not a sister, she *could* still wind up as a sister of ours! :)

Let's cute her some slack...
 

She's not stupid. She's young. The poor thing got nervous!

I know these women are trained, but so many people who speak everyday make mistakes. I give lectures every day and I still make mistakes. Anyone who has ever watched the news or, especially lately, the political debates, knows how even a professional can blow things.

I'm surprised that she changed her answer to: ""I would love to re-answer that question," Upton said. "Well personally, my friends and I, we know exactly where the United States is on our map. I don't know anyone else who doesn't. And if the statistics are correct, I believe there should be more emphasis on geography.""

So she's basically saying, "I don't know anyone who doesn't know where the U.S. is on a map, but if that is true that some people don't know where it is, there should be more emphasis on geography"??

I kind of feel like that's still an empty answer. She could have easily turned that into an education platform. I know at least in the state of Texas there is so much emphasis on the state-administered exams, that courses not tested are often left ignored because schools concentrate heavily on prepping for those exams. The whole state-exam movement started when I was in elementary school where we were grilled every single day though junior high almost and based on things I've heard from friends and family who are in the Texas education system, it's only gotten worse.

Subjects like science, geography and physical education are often put in the planning books but the lessons are hardly executed because the schools are putting pressure on the teachers to go over the exam material over and over and over again for the sake of their school's scores.

But whatever... I guess this is the only state where that's an issue. :rolleyes:

And I find it hard to believe that she only heard a couple of words of the question. There were like 10 words and she pretty much covered the entire question with "U.S. Americans don't have maps" :p

She totally could have turned it into a platform by answering something along the lines that she believed that statistic was true because most states now have state standardized tests that are heavily focused on reading, writing and math and that science, social studies and geography are secondary subjects and rarely get classroom time and that that needed to be changed.

(This coming from the teacher :D)

How old is she, again? Fifteen? Sixteen? I'm still apt to cut her some slack and place the blame on her "handlers", who should have prepared her for such a basic question.

Of course, I am Carmen SanDiego, so it seemed basic to me! ;)

Try 18, and attending Appalachian State University (Boone, NC) in the Fall.

On Myspace there is a spoof of the Miss Teen South Carolina answer..... it's pretty funny and involves an iPhone and the "revised" answer given by Miss T.SC.

I won't post a link to it because the guy (that's right!) is wearing a sash that is kinda mean... but it's easy to search for if you want a giggle. Do a search for "Miss Teen USA Spoof by: William Sledd" in the Myspace Video section