was asked to take it down. it s been a contractual provision for a while. i think the organization has been trying to hold on to the tradition, which the volunteers really love but advance the image of miss america. at a certain point, you just can t have it both ways. you ve heard from women who have won and they re beautiful women. and they re even for the most part saying to thankou? yeah. i sent out an e-mail to as many of the last 25 years of preliminary swim suit winners at miss america as i could get contact information for and just letting them know that we value you, it doesn t mean that we don t think you have brains, we value this tradition but it just time to do something new. i got a couple e-mails back that were so strikingone . one of them was like praise the lord. she said when she won the swim suit at miss america, she was