A Zeta Takes the Top Spot
A Q&A with a Queen
Dervedia Thomas
Issue date: 4/20/09 Section: Features
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Q. How do you feel about winning?
A. Excited, it's still overwhelming, but everyone's been very receptive and excited about me becoming Miss SCSU. I'm excited though, I'm ready to see what the rest of the semester and next year brings.
Q. Did you feel like the underdog in this race?
A. I did actually because I was running against a Delta and everyone knows that there more Deltas than Zetas on this campus, and people really doubted that I couldn't handle it. Also, because I'm a Zeta, people may not have liked that, but I guess people were looking for a change and they wanted something different.
Q. Why wouldn't people like the fact that you're a Zeta?
A. Sometimes people have this perception about Zetas that they are not open, and are not nice, caring people like everyone else, I feel like I need to shed a new light on my sorority that Zetas are nice people, were not evil people like everyone thinks we are.
Q. Are you also trying to break the stereotype that persons in the ROTC are not interested in pageantry and things of that nature?
A. Yes because most people think that people in the ROTC are "butchiee" and just wear uniforms and roll around in the mud and we do, do that and I have fun doing that, but I do like to put on a pair of heels and still be a girl sometimes.
Q. What are some of the things you hope to accomplish?
A. My platform was Breast Cancer awareness, so I want to bring the Susan B. Coleman campaign team back down here, because I've done some research and a lot of young African American women are being diagnosed with Breast Cancer now, so I want them [Susan B. Coleman] to do some workshops to make sure that people are keeping up with their mammograms and all the things they need to do to remain healthy. I also want to have a mentorship program with elementary schools and Felton to encourage them to have confidence in themselves and be an individual. They don't have to follow the crowd.
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James Isreal
posted 4/24/09 @ 5:50 PM EST
Congratulations Miss Zuri! Again, welcome into the SGA Legacy. I'm shocked to hear that the steroetype of Zeta has come to be that of unfriendliness and a closed group of individuals. (Continued…)
Bryanta Booker-Maxwell
posted 5/01/09 @ 3:11 PM EST
Once again, congrats Zuri. Its amazing how people are so biased. You should never judge a book by its cover. A sorority is about the principles that it was founded upon, not all the extra stuff that people make them out to be. (Continued…)
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Bryanta Booker-Maxwell
posted 5/06/09 @ 12:55 PM EST
Congrats again Zuri. It's a shame how people allow sterotypes to cloud their judgements. As the old saying goes, you should never judge a book by its cover. (Continued…)
Bridgette Harrison
posted 5/19/09 @ 3:20 AM EST
congrats to you cousin. I'm so proud of you. Keep up the good work.
Joan Lomax
posted 7/20/09 @ 9:40 PM EST
Congrats Zuri. We are proud of you as always. Even though you are all grown up, we will always remember you as baby girl. You are the best. God bless and keep you. (Continued…)
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