When Ashley Wood was crowned Miss South Carolina in 2004, the agreement was that she would receive $20,000 towards her university education. However she is currently attending Wharton Business School but has receive no money yet. Sponsors and the Pageant itself have reneged on their promises. Is this false promise and false advertising.? When businesses sponsor individual participants, they receive some amount of publicity for which they agree to pay. They should be held accountable. It’s an agreement and there should be actionable.
“You are talking about an organization that is promoting itself as the largest scholarship provider for women in the world,” Ms. Wood, 26, said of the Miss America Organization. “When contestants try to collect their funds, they encounter one obstacle after another.”
What a pity. Apparently, this is not the first time such a thing has happened. It has happened to many girls before. The pageant which claims to do so many things for young women should step up to the plate on behalf of the women and ensure they are helped with university fees. Don’t they want women to have a career and not only be beautiful? That’s the impression the organizers give. It’s not exploiting female, it is helping them to achieve – well do something Miss America Pageant organizations.
“What is very clear to me is that the goal is to not give out the scholarships if at all possible.” Miss America system promotes itself as a scholarship pageant rather than a beauty pageant, unlike its main rival, the Miss USA contest.
Interviews with contestants across the country describe a Miss America system in which local pageant directors do not return telephone calls and e-mail messages for months, local competitions close down before scholarships are distributed, and the fine print in contracts creates hurdles. Local winners across the country have threatened legal action, and some have taken it.
Miss American Organizations has done nothing but blame the victims. They claim that the participants might not have dotted all the eyes and crossed all the T’s and might have missed deadlines. Well excuse me, if the intent to to reward the winners, that money should be there. Perhaps a few dollars might be taken from the winning if extra effort had to be made but the money should be dispensed to the girls at any cost.
When Ashley Wood was crowned Miss South Carolina in 2004, the agreement was that she would receive $20,000 towards her university education. However she is currently attending Wharton Business School but has receive no money yet. Sponsors and the Pageant itself have reneged on their promises. Is this false promise and false advertising.? When businesses sponsor individual participants, they receive some amount of publicity for which they agree to pay. They should be held accountable. It’s an agreement and there should be actionable.
“You are talking about an organization that is promoting itself as the largest scholarship provider for women in the world,” Ms. Wood, 26, said of the Miss America Organization. “When contestants try to collect their funds, they encounter one obstacle after another.”
What a pity. Apparently, this is not the first time such a thing has happened. It has happened to many girls before. The pageant which claims to do so many things for young women should step up to the plate on behalf of the women and ensure they are helped with university fees. Don’t they want women to have a career and not only be beautiful? That’s the impression the organizers give. It’s not exploiting female, it is helping them to achieve – well do something Miss America Pageant organizations.
“What is very clear to me is that the goal is to not give out the scholarships if at all possible.” Miss America system promotes itself as a scholarship pageant rather than a beauty pageant, unlike its main rival, the Miss USA contest.
Interviews with contestants across the country describe a Miss America system in which local pageant directors do not return telephone calls and e-mail messages for months, local competitions close down before scholarships are distributed, and the fine print in contracts creates hurdles. Local winners across the country have threatened legal action, and some have taken it.
Miss American Organizations has done nothing but blame the victims. They claim that the participants might not have dotted all the eyes and crossed all the T’s and might have missed deadlines. Well excuse me, if the intent to to reward the winners, that money should be there. Perhaps a few dollars might be taken from the winning if extra effort had to be made but the money should be dispensed to the girls at any cost.
2 Comments
September 25, 2007 at 5:59 am
Are more people really NOT surpised that she didn’t get what was promised to her?
Well Americans, WAKE UP!
Insurance companies, “Food” companies, Drug companies, Our Political system of today (not yesteryear), etc.,…It’s all broken and! economically desperate people feel it’s just OK to rip anyone off and sweep it under the carpet.
No responsibility,
No accountability and
No respect for your fellow human beings!
Period!
Smile! What did you expect?
What else can you do?
Life’s too short and by the way
there are NO virgins in Heaven!
September 25, 2007 at 9:52 am
Modeling schools and beauty pageants are two huge classic ripoffs. I spent over 2500.00 with a modeling school in Houston. They did sign me, but I never got any jobs with them. I did get two jobs on my own, and I had to pay them a commission! Parents–do yourself a favor–avoid these scams! It’s not worth fooling with! Trust me!