#DIRENGEZI

Miss Universe Turkey 2012 Çağıl Özge Özkul

U r to be emulated! U r standing up for freedom and democracy! 

Keep resisting! U r making Turkey better!

#direngezi #direnis

#OCCUPYGEZI

We stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey today! And we are humbled by the fierce and strong Miss Universe Turkey 2012 Çağıl Özge Özkul, who continues to inform her country and the universe via Twitter, Instagram, and Vine about the atrocities that continue to be committed in Turkey. 

A FEW FAVES

Last night, Dean Harris threw a Miss USA 2013 livestream party at on-campus hot-spot and coffee house Cafe Zulu, where the best Colombian coffee is served. The party was for faculty and staff only. After the livestream of the preliminary competition, everyone voted for their faves. Here are a few of those faves. Photos provided by the Miss Universe Organization. (AP Photo/Miss Universe Organization) 

Dean Harris liked West Virginia

Madge from the cafeteria gave her vote to Alabama

Lorraine loves MN, what with the bun on her head!

Security Guard Boris has the hots for luscious LA

Prof. Chandni adores NC

LUV TO LU!!!!

Beauty School shall invite Lu Sierra to give its commencement address this year! She exemplifies the values and qualities of an educator and scholar in the field of beauty school science

This photo provided by the Miss Universe Organization, Miss Maine USA 2013, Ali Clair; Miss Louisiana USA 2013, Kristen Girault; Miss Kentucky USA 2013, Allie Leggett; Miss Kansas USA 2013, Staci Klinginsmith; Miss Mississippi USA 2013, Paromita Mitra; and Miss Minnesota USA 2013, Danielle Hooper; are coached by Lu Sierra prior to the 2013 Miss USA Competition Preliminary Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday June 12, 2013. She will compete for the title of Miss USA 2013 and the coveted Miss USA Diamond Nexus Crown on June 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Miss Universe Organization, Valerie Macon)

COVER YOUR EARS FLEMINGTON FURS!

eonline, 13-Jun-2013: These Miss USA winners are getting naked for a cause!

Ahead of this weekend's 2013 Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas, past winners Shanna Moakler (1995), Shandi Finnessey (2004),Susie Castillo (2003) and Alyssa Campanella (2011) are stripping down and posing nude in a sexy new ad for animal rights organization PETA.

In the gorgeous black and white photo, the four lovely ladies stand side-by-side while gazing into the camera next to the words next to the words, "Feel Beautiful in Your Own Skin, and Let Animals Keep Theirs."

"As long as I'm the director of Miss Nevada, we will never award fur coats as prizes, and I urge my fellow pageant directors to make the same pledge," Moakler said in a statement to PETA. "Kind people today are taking a stand against cruelty to animals—so a fur coat is no prize for a compassionate, socially-aware woman."

"I've been an animal lover all my life, and the more I learned of the torture that animals go through in the name of fashion, I just think it's so unnecessary," Castillo says. She added that she feels "blessed" to team up with her pageant sisters "to take a stand united and to tell the pageant industry not to support the fur industry."

Moakler, Finnessey, Castillo and Campanella have joined with PETA to urge the pageant industry as a whole to adopt a universal fur-free policy. Additionally, the former Miss USAs want pageants nationwide to stop awarding fur coats as prizes, as some state pageants still offer these gifts as prizes to winners.