On Friday, Miss North Carolina USA, Brittany Boltinhouse, was stripped of her crown. I was sent this story, and it piqued my interest, specifically because Miss USA Chairman Thom Bordeur was vague on the conduct that ended Boltinhouse’s beauty pageant ambitions. Turns out I was wrong, but the reason they did give Boltinhouse the boot is equally as ridiculous. It is built over time, in the open, through conduct rather than apology alone." It is, and it seems foolish and short-sighted to punish her now for things she said almost a decade ago.