Word: scholarshipped
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...coming year after year: “They’re all so pretty, how could you say anything bad about them?” The men who come up to contestants’ slow-moving convertibles asking for their phone numbers seem unaware that Miss America is a scholarship competition...
...Gray, the polar opposite of a pageant personality, get into this in the first place? She says it began because of the scholarship money, but admits that now, she’s enjoying the ride...
...less than 15 years ago that the social issue platform requirement was implemented. To hear the official line on it, though, Miss America has always carried the torch for women’s rights. And though the incongruity of a scholarship competition that requires its contestants to parade around in a bathing suit and heels is obvious to everyone—including Miss America officials—it remains popular with viewers...
Redd and Gray’s participation in the pageant was a boon to the Miss America Organization, which in recent years has struggled to emphasize the competition’s role as a leading scholarship provider for young women, while still trying to boost the telecast’s flagging ratings...
...graduates made their presence known at law firms, and rose to those firms’ highest ranks, they became involved in and responsible for hiring—and sent the message that it was okay to be openly gay in the recruiting process. As gay alumni began producing scholarship in the field of sexual orientation and the law, they created and built an academically respectable niche in which many students now work. Harvard’s gay and lesbian alumni have also affected the school in more tangible ways—by serving as members of its Alumni Association...