SLAS’S FIRST BEAUTY PAGEANT
BY JENNIFER JIANG
The Student Council at SLAS holds many annual
fundraising activities to collect money for setting up
activities such as prom and fun afterschool events that
benefit the students. From past precedents, this year
students expect the Student Council to prepare lots of
fundraising campaigns through sales. However this time,
instead of facilitating only the conventional method of
selling, the Student Council initiated SLAS’s first male
beauty pageant with three candidates running against
each other to determine who was the most attractive.
Jerry Wang, the president of Student Council, explained
his motive for holding the contest, “The remaining funds
for Student Council are short this year. Thus we will have
to come up with new fundraising ideas to increase our
funds. The beauty contest is pretty much the first idea
we thought about because the money we make from it
will count as our net profit. I also joined the contest as a
competitor myself because I know someone must take
the risks and represent the whole group for this beauty
contest to work. And as the president, I am willing to be
the first one to take it on.”
The three participants for the beauty pageant are Florian
Wadley, Alex Fang, and Jerry Wang, all of whom are
officers for the Student Council. Students will be able to
purchase tickets to vote for the most handsome
candidate, in their opinion, during Wildcat time and lunch
time. The votes will be collected and counted after the
national holiday in October, after which the results will
be announced when students return from holiday. In
addition, rather than giving out awards to celebrate the
winner, the Student Council will impose a harsh
punishment on the losers instead: they will have their
heads shaven in front of the entire school community on
campus!
“I don’t think the punishments are entirely fair for the
losers,” argued Howard Yan, an eleventh grade student
in SLAS. He continued to say, “this punishment causes
too much of a long-lasting alteration on the physical
appearance of the losers in the contest. I don’t think
anyone wants to shave their head for a few hundred
RMBs.” In addition, Howard added, “I didn’t want join the
pageant as a candidate for the same reasons. I am afraid
to have such a huge alteration on my physical appearance
in school. Therefore, I am very surprised that the Student
Council officers actually agreed to join the pageant and
I truly admire their bravery to take on the punishments.”
Student Council at SLAS is really working hard this year
to meet the students’ needs and fulfill their goals. The
beauty pageant thoroughly demonstrated the
dedication of the officers of Student Council to the
student body at SLAS as the candidates are willing to risk
their well-constructed social image for fundraising. We
must admire the bravery and spirit of the candidates and
how they sincerely embraced SLAS’s core values. As a
result, let’s participate in the beauty pageant by
purchasing votes actively and supporting the Student
Council to complete their goals successfully this school
year!
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