Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Just over a month after two Harvard alums competed in the Miss America Pageant, a website created by Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06 gave students a chance to rate their peers using ID photos taken from online House facebooks...
...essence, he’s right. College polls are popularity contests, meant to bear as little resemblance to reality as humanly possible. The top-25 polls that are released each week make about as much sense as the method for picking finalists in the Miss America pageant. “Sure, McNeese State squeaked out a close one on Saturday, but it’s our No. 1 because it just ran away with the evening gown and swimsuit competitions...
...ridiculously named Forte! A Celebration of Student Excellence in the Arts, a two-hour pageant of Harvard’s most prominent—if not most talented—arts students, was just as much fun to mock as its goody-two-shoes hype would have led you to expect. Mr. Ex-Treasury Secretary showed us what selling out is all about...
...press box, the regional reporters are all pageant vets. Many of them are betting on Redd, but during the numerous commercial breaks, the conversation wanders a bit. I announce my absolute horror at child beauty pageants; my neighbor replies that she has judged a few. She doesn’t get offended, because she’s too busy looking for her friends, ardent Clay Aiken fans who call themselves “The Claymates.” The American Idol runner-up is an audience draw for the telecast...
Miss Maryland is an audience favorite, so when her name is called as a runner-up, the audience reverberates in boos. The selection of Miss Florida Ericka Dunlap comes as a total surprise to pageant watchers. Her enormous eyes widen to massive dimensions as she jumps up and down in ecstasy. Perhaps as proof that the pageant is no longer tainted by racial politics, three African-Americans have made the top 10 (including Redd), two last into the top five, and Miss America is a black woman with a platform of cultural diversity...