![]() ![]() “It was like ‘Miss Congeniality,'” said Whitney Seibel ’06, a former semifinalist in the Miss Kansas competition. Some young ladies train full-time in preparation for important pageants, making careers out of beauty contests. “In Mississippi alone you can win preliminaries through your school, county and city.” “They’re enormous in the South,” she said. ![]() In comparison to her Bible-belt home state of Mississippi, Lauren Curtis ’05 said Yale lacks one important Southern tradition - competitions for who is “prettier.” A former Junior Miss Mississippi, she said beauty pageants are an important part of the Southern lifestyle. On a campus more focused on John Calvin than Calvin Klein, where the color red elicits thoughts of an English paper gone awry rather than luscious lips, interest in beauty pageants is Calista Flockhart-slim.īut flocking to New Haven from all regions South - and from nearby Stratford - five beauty queens-turned-Elis have quietly cut loose their dollar-driven, down-home pageant ambitions. Take a look around - over your shoulder at a party, in front of the Berkeley organic salad bar or ahead of you in line for the keg at DKE may very well lurk a real, live beauty queen. ![]()
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