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...part of the second annual Mr. Harvard Pageant, 13 Harvard hunks strutted their stuff in front of a packed audience of about 280 in the Science Center...
...Houses, along with each the three Freshman yards, nominated a pageant competitor. Eliot and Pforzheimer, due to complications, did not send contestants...
AWARDED. JANEAL LEE, 30, winner of the Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin pageant, whose title was rescinded after a newspaper photo showed her standing up (which Lee, who has muscular dystrophy, can do for short periods); the title of Miss disAbility International; in Appleton, Wis. The award was created by the World Association of Persons with Disabilities after Lee was disqualified from the Wisconsin pageant. "The focus," said Lee, "is on people's abilities, and I think that is excellent...
Voters were able to vote multiple times for their preferred candidate, skewing the results, according to Joseph P. Torella ’08, organizer of the pageant and a Crimson editor. After figuring out that tallying the votes using individual IP addresses could solve that issue, the pageant’s cheap sponsors—who were unwilling to pay to prevent multiple-voting in the first place—decided to reexamine the results. As of Tuesday afternoon, 1211 ballots had been cast for the Crimson Yard election alone, probably more than the number of undergraduates who even know...
Back in the Yard—the Elm Yard, this time—one nominee actually voted for rival candidate Daniel Ross-Rieder ’08 in an attempt to avoid performing in the pageant. Why the nominee doesn’t just resign is a mystery, but Ross-Rieder remains confident that he will smash his competition anyway...