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...Have you seen many of the women up here?" a fraternity man asks the visitor during a discussion of education at Dartmouth. "I doubt if the Playboy people could find anybody they'd want. Men get in here because they're good athletes and are generally pretty good looking. Women get in because they are smart." The view is not confined to inquiring males. At the Cheese, Etc., a coffee house crowded most of the weekend with Dartmouth men and their out-of-town dates, one boy says to his girl, "It's so good...
...Playboy, now celebrating its 25th anniversary and straining to elevate itself from a swamp of newer and raunchier skin magazines, dispatched Chan to perpetrate a photo spread on "Girls of the Ivy League." Chan admitted that the Southwest Conference was Playboy's first choice, but the magazine decided that the Ivies have an irresistible mystique. "Especially now that women have entered the men's domain, everybody's mystified," said Chan. "There's a sexual fascination. What are these women like?" Touchy, it turns out. Chan's visit provoked feminist protests on six campuses and touched...
Chan's Ivy League education began Nov. 29, when he approached the Harvard Crimson with an advertisement featuring his magazine's familiar symbol and an invitation to audition for the project. The next day's edition featured a news story headlined PLAYBOY SEEKS WOMEN HERE TO POSE NUDE. That evening a majority of the 30 staff members at a Crimson editorial meeting voted to reject the ad. That decision prompted some staffers, male and female, to write lengthy editorial explications and dissenting opinions. The majority endorsed the paper's editorial, declaring that Playboy "has played...
...most of its history it has been much maligned as the frowsiest of the Seven Sisters, and some Radcliffe women were bemused at being chosen over the sunshine girls of the Southwest. Others resented being chosen at all. Jennifer R. Levin, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, denounced Playboy's efforts as "degrading and exploitative of women...
...Cohn. Adds Fellow Student Laurie Osmond, who has agreed to pose (fully clothed) for Chan: "It sounds crass, but you have to use your assets." Reports Chan: "They mention to me many times this is something to show to their grandchildren." That urge is apparently, widely felt. Some of Playboy's competitors now feature warts-and-all snapshots, usually taken by husband or boyfriend, sent in by women eager to memorialize their assets. "To each his own," says Chan. "We're not gynecological photographers at Playboy. All we're shooting is physical beauty. Inner beauty doesn...