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UBBOCK (AP) — A disgraced
beauty queen who relinquished
crown after allegedly threaten-
to make her school’s cheerlead-
ing squad “disappear from the face
of :he Earth,” said yesterday she
io|y threatened to beat up one
erleader.
Roni Lowe, Miss Lubbock Teen
A, withdrew from Frenship High
rool last TUesday after school ad-
nistrators told her she would
ve to attend an alternative school
■ three months for making the
tnment. She gave up her crown
v's later.
Lowe won the beauty pageant in
iruary but did not make the cut dur-
cheerleading tryouts in March.
“I wasn’t getting along with one
he cheerleading girls very well,”
e told the Associated Press yes-
day. “She had been saying that I
d stuff that I hadn’t and 1 told her
bs going to kick her butt and
rybody was going to know.who
it. This was fifth-grade stuff.”
Lowe said she believes she was
Vilipended because the principal’s
(lughter is a cheerleader.
■ “1 didn’t threaten the whole
■eerleading squad,” Lowe said. “I
link it’s ridiculous to use violence,
■se my mouth as my hands. I think
Bey wanted to punish me because
the principal was mad about it, since
his daughter is a cheerleader. ”
Other students confirmed that
the principal’s daughter is a cheer
leader at the school. Lowe said she
also believes she was denied a place
on the squad unfairly.
“I told her I was
going to kick her
butt This was
fifth-grade stuff/'
— Roni Lowe
Former Miss Lubbock Teen USA
“I was never told whether or not
1 was on the squad or what the vote
was,” Lowe said. “I think they just
kept me off because there was a
group that wanted to be together on
the squad.”
School administrators declined to
comment on Lowe’s statements.
Her suspension was part of
Frenship Independent School Dis
trict’s zero-tolerance policy against
threats, which school officials im
plemented after school shootings
in Littleton, Colo.
“Last spring we began looking at
all of the tragedies that were occur
ring across the nation and we de
cided we wanted to be proactive in
making sure nothing like that would
occur here,” Paul Whitton, Fren-
ship’s superintendent, said. “It is un
fortunate, but there isn’t any room
for joking anymore when it comes
to threats. ”
The alleged threats, if proven,
also would violate the pageant sys
tem’s strict behavior policies and a
moral code all contestants sign,
pageant officials said.
“Roni is an intelligent young lady,
she is very considerate and did what
she thought was best,” pageant di
rector Kathy Bouldin said yesterday.
“This was the best decision for
everybody involved.”
Lowe said she gave up the crown
to protect the pageant’s reputation.
“1 didn’t want the pageant to get
a bad name, so I didn’t try to fight
anything,” she said.
Monica Vasquez, a 16-year-old
Frenship High junior, will serve the
rest of Lowe’s term as Miss Lubbock
Teen USA 1999. Vasquez will receive
the prize package Lowe surren
dered, including a $500 college
scholarship. The new queen will
compete in the Miss Texas Teen USA
contest in November.
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