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Holahan said. Playboy models si By MICHAEL P. BUFFER Collegian Staff Writer Hundreds of men mostly University students lined up along South Allen Street in a slight drizzle yesterday to get into Graham’s Newsstand for glimpses of and autographs from four University students featured in Playboy’s “Girls of the Big Ten” pictorial. Lee Waetdekin, senior account executive of Warner Publishers Services, the national distributor of Playboy, said the crowd at Gra ham’s, 124 S. Allen St., was one of the largest he’s seen for this type of event. “I heard there was a line an hour and a half before we got here,” Waetdekin said. Ted Benjamin (senior-hotel and restaurant management) who was waiting in line, said, “It isn’t everyday you get to see a playmate.” Gary Zembower (senior-hotel and restaurant management) said in 20 years his autographed copy of the magazine will be a collectors item. “It’s the first issue with Penn State women in it,” he said. John Keamf, marketing director of Graham’s owner Newborn Enterprises, described the auto graph signings as “terrific.” “Everything was very orderly," Keamf said. The models were surprised and pleased with the large turnout. “I didn’t think anyone would show up. This is great,” said Christine Kroczynski (sophomore-market ing/intemational business). Vicki Norton, a 1991 graduate, agreed, saying, ‘lt’s a pleasant surprise. Everyone’s so enthusiastic.” Norton, now a production assis tant for a morning television show in Philadelphia, returned to State College to have her new celebrity status confirmed by two of her former fraternity members last night. She said she was on a Philadelphia morning radio show Tuesday. The other two models, 1991 graduate Betty Lauder and Nicole De Santes (senior-mechanical engineering), also marveled at the crowds. “This is really a big crowd. I’ve never experienced anything like this before,” De Santes said, adding, “I wish the guys would help me out with what to write.” Earlier yesterday, all four of the models appeared on two State College morning radio shows. The magazine, which hit the newsstands Tuesday, has been selling exceptionally well in the area. Ron Agostinelli, manager of McLanahan’s, 414 E. College Ave., said the magazine has sold out both of its shipments in the last two days. “So far we’ve sold three times more than usual,” Agostinelli said. Keamf said the sales at Gra ham’s have been “very brisk” and they are selling five to 10 times more than usual. IFC draws near record turnout for fall fraternity rush Rushee count tops recent years' totals By R.J. HUFNAGEL Collegian Staff Writer The number of students who registered for fraternity rush this semester is one of the largest in recent years, said Interfraternity Council Membership Chairman Brian Rudick. “Conceivably, this is the second largest number of people who have registered for rush in a long, long time,” Rudick said. “In recent years, the numbers had fallen off to around 600, but last year we had a very good rush." This year, nearly 900 men reg istered for rush before Tuesday’s deadline, bettering last year’s total of 850, Rudick said. Rudick cited several reasons for the increased response from stu dents this year. Rush did not begin until a week . , . „ __rVoMnn/intamatinnal business) Nlc- Big Ten” issue. The women, all featured in this month’s issue of the mag sesst- - - “ a "~* Playboy photo at Lion Shrine causes debate By NICOLE M. GIPSON Collegian Staff Writer The Nittany Lion could be the next playmate of the year. Why not it poses in the latest issue of Playboy magazine. Nine University women posed with the Nit tany Lion Shrine in the “Women of the Big Ten” issue of Playboy that went on sale Tuesday. But some University officials say they have no power to stop Playboy from using the shrine, even though it could harm the University’s image. “It would concern me that we have a pictorial that doesn’t advance the cause of women in society,” said John Brighton, executive vice president and provost. There may be a link between such types of pictures and violence to women, Brighton said, adding that the photos give people the wrong message about Penn State women. But the shrine is considered public property, so no one can authorize or approve any pictures of it, Brighton added. Other University officials admitted they could not recall being asked to use the shrine. "Conceivably, this is the second largest number of people who have registered ... in a long, long time." —Brian Rudick IFC Membership Chairman after classes this year, Rudick said. Usually rush begins as soon as students arrive in the fall, he said. “We wanted to let freshmen get comfortable, let them get a footing here at Penn State, so they would know what they wanted to get involved in,” Rudick said. The extra week also allowed IFC and the individual fraternities more Local n 100 s of photos “I don’t recall them ... asking our permis sion. I suspect they just went up there on their own and did not ask permission,” said Bill Mahon, director of Public Information. Roger Williams, executive director of Uni versity Relations, said he thinks that no one at Penn State censors the use of the shrine since people always take pictures with the Lion. People must get permission to use certain registered symbols of the University, such as the school seal, but taking and publishing pictures is another matter, Williams said. “We’re not in the business of controlling who comes on this campus and takes pictures. I’m not sure that’s an activity we can control,” Wil liams added. Bill Paige, news specialist and spokesman for Playboy magazine, echoed similar views. “I’m sure we didn’t have to clear it with anybody. It’s just a photo of students around the Lion. I don’t see that as a problem,” Paige said, adding that it’s not a problem because the women are fully clothed. But some people on campus see the photos as a problem. time to prepare for rush, making it more productive, he said. In addition, IFC launched adver tising programs in newspapers, radio and elsewhere to attract more rushees into the Greek system, he said. IFC also published a book for all rush chairmen of individual chap ters, which helped the rush proc ess to be more productive, said IFC president Tim Finn. “The membership committee just did an excellent job of encouraging people to get out there and do it. They did an incredible job, for virtually no reward,” Rudick said. “I think IFC has done a phe nomenal job,” Finn said. “We’ve done all we can to get the people inter ested, now it’s up to the individual chapters to do the work and get the rushees into the Greek system.” Sigma Nu gives out By R.J. HUFNAGEL Collegian Staff Writer Sigma Nu fraternity took a somewhat different approach to fall rush this year by distributing condoms to fraternity rushees at Tuesday’s Interfraternity Council Rush Mixer in the HUB Ballroom. “We wanted to do something really, really dif ferent this year and add a little public service during the rush process,” said Rick Coffee, rush chairman of Sigma Nu, 340 N. Burrowes Road. The condoms were distributed to all students attending the rush mixer, regardless of whether they were rushing Sigma Nu, Coffee said. The fraternity’s goal was to stress the importance of safe sex to students joining the Greek system, he said. The distribution was a way of showing the fra ternity’s dedication to “Smart Rush,” Sigma Nu’s rush slogan, Coffee said. Although the idea of condom distribution during “I am personally insulted,” said Melissa Hardoby (senior-women’s studies). “Men students should know that women are not for their entertain ment or at their disposal.” The women are dressed in collegiate clothes sporting the Penn State name, which confuses the models in Playboy with the average college woman at Penn State, explained Hardoby, a former co director of the Undergraduate Student Gov ernment Department of Women’s Concerns. Hardoby said Playboy used the nine Univer sity women’s bodies as commodities to sell the image of easy, loose, college women. The women’s bodies were also used to sell a 1-900 telephone number that allowed men to call in and pick their favorite woman, she added. The University should publish a general statement supporting women students in pursuit of a career, like it supports African-American or disabled people, she said. That would show that the University takes women seriously, she added. “I’d like to see whatever can be done in as low key a manner as possible,” Hardoby said. “I don’t want any more free publicity for Playboy.” Thursday, Sept. 5, 1991 Orientation clause not contained in manual By SCOTT DODD Collegian Staff Writer There are two words noticeably missing from the new University policies and rules manual for stu dents. They are “sexual orienta tion.” The University’s Board of Trustees voted tins spring to amend Penn State’s non-discrimination policy to include “sexual orientation” as a protected category. The manual, however, fails to include the revision. Pat Peterson, assistant vice president for Campus Life, said the new policy was not passed in time to be included in the revised manual. She said the manual was sent to the printer at the beginning of June and was printed in July. The trustees approved the revised policy that included “sexual orien tation,” in May. Craig Waldo, political co-director of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Student Alliance, said administra tors told him the omission was an oversight. “It was extremely careless,” Waldo said. “We felt that it was an extremely important revision that all stu dents should be aware of. It should have been there.” Betty Moore, assistant director of the Campus Life Assistance Cen ter, said the deadline for changes to the manual is in March. “The goal is to have the infor mation as accurate as possible,” Moore said, but added that many policies are revised and finalized in the spring too late to be included in the manual. Moore said the section of the manual that included the non-discrimina tion policy was approved by the Affirmative Action Office before it went to print. The University’s Affirmative Action officers could not be reached for comment. Waldo and LGBSA political co director Theresa Sumner wrote a letter to Peterson asking that a notice be sent to students informing them of the change in the non-discrimina tion policy. “Students should be made aware of the change,” Waldo said. Although Campus Life doesn’t plan to send out a notice, a copy of the policies and rules manual is avail able on an electronic bulletin board on the University’s computer net work and will be revised to include changes by the end of the week, Peterson said. Campus Life employees plan to place an ad in The Daily Collegian informing students of the bulletin board and mentioning the change in the non discrimination policy, she added. condoms at mixer rush is new to Penn State, it is not completely new, he said. . . Coffee said the fraternity got the idea for the safe sex promotion from its chapter in Toronto. The response from the rushees was mixed, Cof fee said. “At first, a lot of people were laughing and jok ing about it,” Coffee said. “But we stressed that we were serious.” However, some members of other fraternities were skeptical. “I think promoting safe sex is a good idea, but I don’t know if I would have done it at the rush mixer,” said Jeremy Scholl, member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, 328 E. Foster Ave. But the response from IFC has been very good, Coffee said. “It was all done in good taste,” said Brian Rudick, IPC membership chairman. “They were trying to make a statement... I think it was effective.”
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