“I was never involved with any name-calling or use of profanity toward a girl during my time with the sorority. Jezebel broke the story on Monday afternoon and cited an anonymous source who detailed acts of hazing during Kazantsev’s reign as recruitment committee president in the Alpha Phi sorority at Hofstra University: 
 
 Under Kira’s supervision, according to the source, pledges in the incoming class were called names, berated for their perceived physical flaws and imperfections, and made to perform physical tasks to the point of bruising and exhaustion — standard sorority pledge stuff paid forward by a person who our source says was herself brutally hazed upon entry into Alpha Phi.  (Read more from Tuesday morning: Miss America goes on Good Morning America to deny hazing abuse) 
 
 
 
 Miss America, Kira Kazantsev, poses for photographers during the traditional toe dip in the Atlantic Ocean the morning after she was crowned. Pageant officials released a statement to the site, saying that “Kira has been fully transparent with the Miss America Organization about her termination from the Alpha Phi sorority.” 
 
 “It’s unfortunate that this incident has been exploited to create a storyline that distracts from what we should be focusing on: Kira’s impressive academic achievements at Hofstra University, including earning a triple major from the Honors College and her commitment to serving her community,” they added, going on to praise Kazantsev as a worthy ambassador of the crown. The spokesperson sent us the same statement as it had to Jezebel, though instead of the phrase “fully transparent,” they said Kazantsev “has been very open and candid about her termination from the Alpha Phi sorority.” 
 
 “Kira is an exceptional ambassador for the Miss America Organization, and we are excited to be a part of her journey as a force for good across our nation, promoting education and service and working to empower young women,” the statement said. Advertisement 
 
 The Miss America and Miss New York organizations weren't exactly as "transparent" with the viewing public as they say Kazantsev was with them.
– Kira Kazantsev was kicked out of the Alpha Phi sorority at Hofstra University last year, and it wasn't for banging plastic cups around, a source tells Jezebel. According to the source, the future Miss America and a friend were expelled from the sorority for hazing pledges, who were "called names, berated for their perceived physical flaws and imperfections, and made to perform physical tasks to the point of bruising and exhaustion." Kazantsev, the president of the sorority's recruitment committee at the time, was banned from all sorority-related activities after an investigation, the source says, but sneaked into the end-of-year formal anyway. Pageant officials, however, say Kazantsev has been "fully transparent with the Miss America Organization about her termination from the Alpha Phi sorority" and the "incident has been exploited" to distract from her impressive achievements at the Long Island university, reports the Washington Post. On her website, the beauty queen says she never bullied anybody and the worst hazing she witnessed involved "reciting information, a few sleepless nights, and crafting." She says she was expelled from the sorority after an email in which she joked about hazing was forwarded to the national organization—and says the "nameless source that is saying these things is doing exactly what it is that I was wrongfully accused of." (Click for more about Kazantsev's controversial talent performance.)