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His quest for
the ‘Near-10’
never stops
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tight blouse. It seems to be stan
dard uniform, as if they all belonged
to some sort of Playboy Applicants
Lodge, Local 344.
Chan gives us a wave as we
leave the suite. “Let me know if
there’s any protest. And bring me a
copy of the paper if you get any
letters.”
It is Saturday before we manage
to make our way back to the Play
boy Suite, with its giant king-size
bed, \\s e\ec\hc massage unit (25
cents a shake), and its Gideon’s Bi
ble. Sherral and Pepe and their clut
ter are gone. Now its just Chan, and
his white llasa-apsa, Ma-Ling, and
the ever-ringing telephone, and the
steady stream of applicants.
As promised, we've brought corn-
pies of everything we’ve published
concerning Chan and his quest for
the Near-10. A poll of students for
their reactions, a cartoon strip and a
tetter from a group who found the
quest to be disgusting.
“You know,” Chan said, looking
up from the paper. “I just can’t im
agine feeling like this. Here’s a guy
who says he’s apalled at the
thought of a naked woman.” chan
points to one of the girls. “If we were
sitting here and she was semi
nude, would you feel apalled? I’d
feel pretty good. How could you be
apalled?”
So far, Chan has interviewed
more than 200 Texas A&M women.
The good, the bad and the ugly. The
. search has been successful in
terms of sheer numbers. More ap
plicants showed up for interviews
Janet Dawn Burnan, and her sister, Bridgette, right, both decided to apply for the Playboy project.
than Chan expected to.
"I heard this was such a conser
vative campus,” he says. “They
said don’t bother, that no one would
show up.”
But out of that number, Chan has
seen only two candidates for Play
mate. And one of those was a girl he
found at the Dixie Chicken.
It is 1:30 p.m., and Chan plans to
be out of town by evening. He’s on
his way to Houston, to search for
more women at Rice and the Uni
versity of Houston. “That’ll be four
down and five to go. You see?
These things take time.”
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Not all schools may welcome him with open arms
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
A Baylor University administrator says his office
will “take action” against students who pose nude
for Playboy magazine, though he is not sure what
that action will be.
ButTCD and SMU, the other two church schools
that will be involved in the magazine’s “Girls of the
Southwest Conference” issue are unbothered by
the prospect that their students may be photo
graphed.
An interviewing team began touring the confer
ence this month, searching for women to appear in
the feature.
Dr. W. C. Perry, vice president and dean of stu
dent affairs at Baylor, said he was “concerned”
about the idea of Baylor students posing.
“I think we’d take action without question,” Perry
said when asked what view his office would take of
the issue. But he declined to say what would be
done.
Jeff Barton, editor of the Baylor Lariat, said he
doubted the administration would allow Playboy to
advertise in his paper for women to interview with
the magazine.
“I would say there’s a good chance that the ad
will be prohibited,” he said. “(University President
AbneT) WicCaW very sensitive abou\ what kind of
advertising we can accept.”
Barton said this wouldn’t be the first ad adminis
trators have barred. The Lariat can no longer adver
tise the movie "The Life of Brian” and has been
stopped from running H.E.B. grocery store ads for a
sweepstakes. Barton said officials found the movie
sacrilegious and the contest too much like gamb
ling.
Dr. Herbert Reynolds, Baylor’s executive vice
president and chief operation officer, did not say
definitely that the Playboy ad would be prohibited,
but hinted that it might be.
on it, but I suppose my bias would be not to run such
an ad,” Reynolds said. “We are not reluctant to
prohibit this kind of thing if we think it will present a
bad image of our school.”
Libby Proffer, dean of student life at TCU, sees
thing differently.
“That’s really something women do outside of
the university structure. The university facilities are
not available to any commercial business and won’t
be to Playboy. But I don’t think we can or should try
to govern students’ activities,” she said.
Nor did Paula LaRocque, adviser to TCU's Daily
Skiff, think there would be any problem with running
the magazine’s ad.
“Our student publications policy statement says
merely that everything must be in good taste,” she
said. “We wouldn’t run ads for, say, a strip place.”
She said that the Playboy ad would have to be
carefully constructed, but could probably meet
TCU’s criteria.
SMU’s President James Zumberge shares Prof
fer’s views.
The student paper The Daily Campus quoted
Zumberge earlier this month as saying, “I haven’t
got the authority to bar them (Playboy employees)
from coming onto the campus, or to prohibit stu
dents from being approached.”
Chan reads about local reaction to his visit to Texas A&M.