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Date Posted: 19:52:59 07/10/13 Wed
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Does that mean she followed this board and the hype for months before the pageant??? NOT GOOD AT ALL...can be easily swayed.
's message, "PERSONALLY I AM APPALLED THAT A JUDGE WOULD COME TO THIS BARD AND POST!" on 12:29:50 07/10/13 Wed
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>>Cara McCollum '14, the first Princeton student crowned
>>Miss New Jersey since 1999, poses with the judges,
>>including Hilary Levey Friedman *09, third from right.
>>(Photo: Richard Krauss Photography)
>>By Hilary Levey Friedman *09
>>
>>For the first time in more than a decade, a Princeton
>>student will compete for the title of Miss America.
>>Cara McCollum, a rising senior and PAW On the Campus
>>columnist, was crowned Miss New Jersey on June 15 in
>>Ocean City. (In 1999, two Princetonians won state
>>pageants — New Jersey’s Victoria Paige ’01 and Iowa’s
>>Jennifer Caudle ’99.) The next stop for McCollum is
>>Atlantic City, where she will vie for the Miss America
>>crown on Sept. 15.
>>
>>Princeton students frequently distinguish themselves
>>inside and outside the classroom, but it’s rare to see
>>them wearing crowns. (In contrast, Harvard has sent 10
>>undergraduates to the Miss America stage.) However,
>>the relationship between Ivies and Miss America isn’t
>>as strange as you might think. The Miss America
>>Organization is the largest provider of scholarship
>>money to women in the world — this year approximately
>>$45 million will be awarded.
>>
>>When she was crowned on Saturday night McCollum not
>>only won a crown, but also $11,000 to apply to her
>>Princeton education or graduate education. In a few
>>months she’ll try to win another $50,000 at Miss
>>America.
>>
>>It was not always this way. When Miss America started
>>in 1920 as a bathing beauty contest, it was a gimmick
>>to extend the tourist season on the Jersey Shore. But
>>things began to change around World War II; in 1938
>>the talent portion was added and in 1945 the first
>>scholarship was awarded. The addition of another
>>crucial component known as the “platform,” or a
>>community service issue which the contestant promotes
>>throughout her reign, came along in 1989.
>>
>>McCollum’s talent is piano (despite only being able to
>>use nine fingers due to a rare tumor in one finger),
>>and her platform issue is about promoting youth
>>literacy — she’ll develop the Birthday Book Program in
>>New Jersey, which she started in her native Arkansas.
>>In the calculus to help determine Miss New Jersey only
>>15 percent of the score is attributed to swimsuit, 35
>>percent to talent, 25 percent to interview and
>>platform, and 25 percent to modeling in evening gown.
>>
>>How do I know so much about Cara McCollum and
>>pageants? I actually served as one of six judges who
>>helped select her as Miss New Jersey. As an academic
>>(with a Ph.D. in sociology) who more commonly
>>interviews Princeton admission hopefuls, it’s a
>>different experience to judge a beauty pageant.
>>However, I have seen firsthand how young people
>>benefit from learning to articulate their opinions and
>>aspirations in front of strangers. It is a great
>>pleasure to get to know young people like McCollum who
>>are bright, well-spoken, and motivated to make a
>>difference in their communities.
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