Throwing SHADE: The Miss Shade Hall Pageant Mishap

On Wednesday September 3, 2014 in the Shade Hall lobby, a dorm queen was crowned. Three contestants competed in the Miss Shade Pageant and were judged by the 2014-2015 SGA President Nicholas Harris, Rachelle U. Green, Director of Housing Apartments and a local clothes designer, whose name has not yet been released. Participants were judged individually according to their opening act, spirit wear and “live after-five” attire. Once the event was over, the scores were tallied and one was crowned. Informants from Shade Hall say that the scores were not properly totaled, and that there is no way possible that the winner could have won. The pageant was based off of a point system that would only allow judges to give a certain amount of points. On the following day the contestants were asked to meet. The meeting was to inform the girls that the winner chosen was not the “real” winner. According to an anonymous source, the students were asked to keep quiet about the incident. In apologetic fashion, Green informed the girls and made the original winner Miss Residential Life (a made up title) and a new representative to be Miss Shade. The names of the winners will not be released. While further investigation took place, the chain of command from Residential Life has been distorted. RA’s, Dorm Directors, and Housing Directors made it difficult to contact and justify the allegation.
Finally Assistant Director of Hosing, Lisa Hammond was contacted. When contacted, Hammond refused to give any direct information, and reiterated many times that, “If the Digest is going to write on my girls, it wont be negative, but only good.” After further questioning Hammond did inform that each hall determines how they choose a dorm queen and that she only approves. The Southern Digest will continue to do an investigation and if further informaion is obtained, a full story will be provided in the next publication.