PLAYBOY GETS A 'DISAPPOINTING,' HEAVY RESPONSE IN SOUTHEAST - 'WE COULD USE A FEW PROTESTS AROUND HERE'

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March 12, 1981 issue text reports Playboy photographer David Chan visiting Southeastern Conference campuses to find women for the September “Back-to-campus” issue. The coverage describes enthusiastic interest at most schools, contrasting earlier resistance in the Ivy League with angry presidents, bomb threats, and refusals for advertising space. It includes quotes from Sherrel Snow and David Salyers, explaining that protests and opposition can create free publicity, while editorial and campus tensions relate to broader controversies.

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PLAYBOY GETS A 'DISAPPOINTING,' HEAVY RESPONSE IN SOUTHEAST

"We could use a few protests around here"

SECOND CLASS POSTAGEPAID AT DENVER,COLORADO S587Serials Process1ngUniversity Micror17ms300 North Zeeo RoadAnn Arbor,MI48106 NewspaperPlease Rush GraphicS March 12,1981 Vol.19 No.47 AN EPIC TRAGEDYSTEN THEEWINCREDIBLESHRINKINGWOMAN ·SEE THE ERA VANISH WITHOUT A TRACE! ●WATCH AS THE GAINS OF FEMINISM ARE REVERSED! ·LISTEN AS WOMEN’S VOICES BECOME SMALLER! ·A NEW RIGHT PRODUCTION· College Press ServiceJUST THINK OF US AS THE CONTROL GROUP FOR THRe PRESDeNT'S eCONOMIC ReCOVeRY PLA PLAN!” College Press Service A margin is provided on the let hand side of the copy for editing marks.Word counts are approximate.Body copy is set at a maximum 70 spaces per line. Newspapers subscribing to CPS areentitled to the fulluseof the contents in thispacket Editors areencouraged to edit thecopy tfit theirrneeds.However,we ask thatCPSbecrediledwhen credit is due. Index PLAYBOY CAN'I ATTRACT PROTESTERS IN THE SOUTH,BUT ENJOYS A BODY BOOM,Every year atthis time,Playboy tours campuses for folks to pose in its back-to-school issues.Itusually reaps millions in free publicity.But in the Southeastern Conference,thingsaren't working out the usual way(670 words)PG.1 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY CAMPUS RACIAL TENSIONS HAVE RISEN,Racial incidents have be-come epidemic recently,but those responsible for stopping them still can't decideif they're isolated incidents or part of a national pattern.The only long-termsolutions they offer may cause more short-term tensions(924 words)PG.3 U.S.C,MISTAKENLY GIVES FREE'RELY'TAMPONS TO SOME STUDENTS,(429 words)PG.5'EROTIC FILM FESTIVAL'BANNED AT NORTHERN ILLINOIS,(484 words)PG.6 # PLAYBOY GETS A'DISAPPOINTING,'HEAVY RESPONSE IN SOUTHEAST'WE COULD USE A FEW PROTESTS AROUND HERE' (CPS)--When Playboy photographer David Chan visited schools of the Southwestern Conference last spring in search of women to grace the magazine's September "Back- to-campus"issue,he encountered angry university presidents and bomb threats. Two years ago,when he combed the Ivy League for models,irate students picketed,and the Harvard Crimson refused Playboy's request for advertising space. This year,Chan and assistant Sherrel Snow were "ready for anything"when theyheaded for schools of the Southeastern Conference.At school after school,the responsethus far has been the same,says Snow:"We've never been so popular!" "Our response has been just outrageous,"she exclaims."The South is reallyfantastic.Girls are really eager to participate in our interviews." Snow estimates that an average of 200 students sought interviews with Chan ateach of the seven schools they've visited in the last month,compared to only about More on next page Continued from previous page 100 at the Ivy League schools.She says this is not a sign of the times,but a signof location. "The South in general is more open to what we're doing.People here really wantto let us do our thing,and let us do it efficiently and get in and out fast and withsome good success." Snow's observations are supported by the relatively-quiet reception Playboy hasreceived at Mississippi State and the universities of Tennessee,Auburn,Mississippiand Alabama.Chan says a protest staged by 15 University of Alabama students whilehe was checking out of his motel room there has been the extent of Playboy'sopposition. Snow notes,however,that pickets and other protests are great publicity forthe magazine,and she is in fact a little disappointed that students are so compliantthis year. "ive could use a few protests around here,"she says. "We're not a big topic ofdiscussion on campus.People either want to interview or they don't.But protestsmake it a big issue..makes people want to check us out who ordinarily wouldn't payus any attention." "I think if there had been protests at the southeastern schools,we would havehad as many as three or four hundred girls interviewing with us,"she speculates. Likewise,Playboy's Chicago headquarters finds opposition e

FAQs

Why did David Chan visit Southeastern Conference campuses in 1981?

He visited seeking women to grace Playboy’s September “Back-to-campus” issue.

What was the response at Southeastern Conference schools compared with the Ivy League?

At Southeastern schools, interest was reported as unusually high, while the Ivy League had included pickets, refusal of advertising, and other forms of resistance.

How did Playboy’s public relations office view protests or opposition?

Protests were treated as encouraging because they generated time, space, and free publicity in newspapers.

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