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Miss Harvard is clearly a newcomer to the glitzy pageant stage. Organizers didn’t even know exactly when or where the pageant would take place when they posted an open call for nubile youth with a yen for sequins. Most people may not distinguish between the unpolished fundraising effort that is the Miss Harvard pageant and the well-oiled machinations of the greater pageant circuit toward which the future Miss Harvard may aspire, but there are a few discriminating resident experts at Harvard—beauty queens past and present—and despite some reservations about pageant...
...current title holder, pageants are still very much a part of Chavez’s life at Harvard, but for another Harvard beauty queen, Hannah E. Kenser ’04, who won the Miss Teen Illinois pageant her senior year in high school, pageants are a thing of the past. “I only won that one title and do not plan on entering any more pageants in the future,” she says. Upon arriving at Harvard, Kenser played down her title, not wanting it to be the main feature by which she was identified...
...duties. “It was frustrating because sponsors had recruited me to enter the competition and I won overwhelmingly,” Poage says. “But knowing I had won was enough for me.” She says she may throw her hat in the pageant ring again, once she’s finished with school...
Poage says she does not plan to compete for the Miss Harvard title. “It will be fun to watch,” she says. “If it was a real pageant and not just a comical one, I’d probably compete...
...Pageant contestants can seem almost robotic, all unmoving hair and pre-programmed speech. But they are in fact human, with feelings--and parents. The parents of the current Miss America, KATIE HARMAN, sent an eight-page letter to pageant officials earlier this month complaining that their daughter was made to pay for clothing alterations and her own victory party. Furthermore, they claimed they themselves had been treated rudely. Their concerns drew only a fixed smile from Katie, who issued a statement saying she was perfectly content with her reign. So it seems Miss Americas are so real, they even have...