Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1977
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Hopping into Aggieland
Playboy’s December Playmate visited campus
last week — posing, smiling, signing all the way
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Staff
Almost 2,000 men stand on chairs, craning their necks to get a
glimpse.
“Where is she?” says a thin, wiry freshman, jumping up and down.
“Is that her?” He points at me. I look to see who’s behind me. No one
there.
“No, you dummy. There she is.
A parade enters Duncan Dining Hall. Four columns of men march
in. Panderponium breaks loose. Men are shouting, smiling wildly,
whooping, waving. “Over here, over here,” shouts six men in unison.
At the center of the four columns is the object of all the hysteria:
Playboy Magazine’s December Playmate, Ashley Cox.
Tall and blonde, she strides in, her filmy black dress swirling about
her calves. Her high-heeled black .shoes make her official height of
5-foot-8 look like 6-foot.
She sits at a table near the center of the room. With all eyes on her,
she begins to pass the ham, mixed vegetables, potatoes and salad.
She smiles but glances warily around the room full of men who have
obviously seen the December issue of Playboy and are recreating it in
their minds.
That’s enough to scare any woman.
But is a Playmate just any woman? Isn’t she packaged and sold as
the stuff dreams are made of, a beautiful and sexy woman, full of
interesting ideas about love?
“She’s good-looking and all, but she’s just a regular person,” says
Tim McCann, who sat at Cox’s table at Duncan.
And after a big kiss from Cox, all Ken Donnelly, senior Corps
member, had to say was, “I guess it was all right.”
In College Station last week as a gimmick for a local concert, Cox
introduced the rock band, signed autographs and posed for Polaroids
(fully clothed) at three dollars a shot.
I borrowed the December issue of Playboy from a friend (after first
accusing him of being a male chauvenist pig for buying it) and read
the “data sheet” provided. And yes, I did look at the pictures.
The typical statistics are listed: 36-24-35, Scorpio, home town (Dal
las), biggest turn-on and biggest turn-off .
“Biggest Joy: I like to give people things they want and watch their
eyes light up. I am a bit skeptical about the data and make a note to
ask who really fills it out.
After calling and following her around, I finally get an interview.
Her days as a Playmate are busy. For $200 a day, she promotes.
Concerts, basketball games, banquets. She gives interviews, smiles
and looks her best for pictures.
In her hotel room at the Aggieland Inn, Cox sits on the bed and
tells me what she thought about dining with the Corps of Cadets.
“I loved it, but I didn’t understand it (the whooping). If I was an
accomplished actress I could understand it.”
Cox wants to be an actress, and she has had small roles in three
movies.
“I feel that being an actress is my fate. Whatever I put my mind to,
I can do. ” She talks about losing the role of Giggling Gertie in her
high school’s production of “Oklahoma.”
“It was humiliating. ” But she’s ambitious and says she feels she can
be as “good as, say, Diane Keaton.”
I ask about posing for the centerfold.
“The first couple of days posing did bother me. But only two
people (the photographer and stylist) are there. And it’s nothing new
to the photographer. ”
She stayed at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles when she did
the centerfold. “But I can’t answer any personal questions about
Hefner.” She says they are good friends, however.
“It’s not easy work at all. They want you to look so sexy, so inviting,
and at the same time so innocent.”
She wasn’t pleased with the final layout.
For $200 a day, she promotes. She
gives interviews, smiles and looks
her best for pictures.
“They took about $5,000 worth of pictures, and they must have
used the worst.”
I comment that she looks different in person than in the magazine,
but she just smiles and shrugs her shoulders.
Cox says 32,000 to 50,000 women try out to be Playmates. “It’s
really an honor to be chosen.
“But I intend on not doing any more nudes. My mother thought it
was the worst thing that could happen.”
The phone rings and Cox answers, 'helloooo ... Her accent goes
from mid-west to Southern Belle.
She’s wanted in the lobby. On the way down in the elevator, she
says she wouldn’t be a Playboy Bunny in one of the clubs.
“I don’t like the costumes. And I don’t feel as much of a sex symbol
as a bunny. Besides, they have to put up with all these older men
pinching them.”
She is on stage to introduce the band for all of one minute. Then
she gets down to the serious work, signing autographs and smiling for
pictures.
Two young men buy concert tickets, three December Playboys
apiece (conveniently available at the door for 75 cents more than the
regular price), and get their pictures taken with Ashley Cox. They
leave, not once going into the ballroom to listen to the concert.
After more posing, Cox decides her pictures look terrible and “it
must be my bangs.’
“I just don’t want to disappoint them,” she says. So it’s back up to
the hotel room.
She gets out the hair dryer to zap the bangs. I shout, “WHAT
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TERFOLD?” I feel like an idiot because she didn’t hear me, so I
snoop around the hotel room until she’s finished.
I don’t know what I expected, black garter belts and whips
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On the way, she meets a friend. “Oh hi, I was just straightening
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