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By John LeBas
The Battalion
T exas A&M students perusing through Playboy’s
“The Girls of the Big 12 v ’ pictorial in the
October issue may notice two familiar faces
among the featured women.
Hillary Schatz, a senior biomedical engineering
major, and Nikki Willis, a senior kinesiology major,
were selected by Playboy to appear in the issue that
hit newsstands Aug. 27.
Last spring, Playboy held auditions for the pictor
ial, and Schatz and Willis were among the A&M stu
dents who were interested in participating.
Schatz, “had tried earlier [to appear in Playboy],
just for fun,” and was encouraged by her boyfriend
to give it another shot.
Willis saw the audition as an opportunity to get a
“foot in the door,” and take a step toward her goal of
becoming a professional model.
Schatz, Willis and two other women from A&M,
who will appear in the magazine, were selected
from the preliminary audition to do May photo
shoots for Playboy.
When Willis learned she was one of the four final
contestants, she said she “jumped up and down.”
“I was the only one home — I was so excited,"
she said.
Schatz said that at first, she did not know she had
made the preliminary cut, but when she realized she
was one of the four finalists, she was ecstatic.
"It was almost like a cartoon feeling,” she said.
“My jaw dropped.”
The photo shoots were scheduled to be held at the
ranch of The Dixie Chicken’s owner, Don Ganter.
Willis said that during the shoot, she was a little
nervous because it was her first time to pose nude,
but said she eventually loosened up.
“The photographers — I mean, this is their job, so
they’re not saying, ‘Whoa, look at her,”’ she said.
Schatz’s shoot was almost lost to the fickle Texas
weather. The night before her shoot, it began to rain,
making it impossible to use the ranch for the photo
shoot. Schatz said some quick thinking helped solve
the problem.
“Playboy had a row of rooms at the Holiday Inn,
so we built a dorm room,” Schatz said.
She and the Playboy crew collected assorted A&M
paraphernalia, books, stuffed animals and a laptop
computer, and transformed a hotel room into a
replica of an Aggie dorm room. Her shoot was done
in her “dorm room.” .
In July, Schatz and Willis were notified that their
pictures had been chosen to appear in the issue.
Willis said that when she heard the news, she
felt “the adrenaline flowing.” But she did not see
the magazine and picture until she did a radio
interview in Houston.
“I thought it looked kind of good," Willis said. “I
was excited. I never believed that I would be in a
magazine — nude — especially Playboy."
Both women said their friends have been sup
portive of their appearance in the magazine. The
parental reaction, however, has been a little varied,
they said. t
Willis decided she should tell her dad about her
Playboy debut before doing the radio interview —
just in case he happened to hear her on the air.
“He just sat there,” she said. “He was totally quiet.
I think he’s OK with it.”
Schatz said her mom was supportive, but was
worried her dad might get kicked out of his church.
“My dad has had a subscription ever since I can
remember,” she said. “I called him and he said, The
people who are going to kick me out shouldn’t be
reading it anyway.’”
Schatz and Willis said they have not noticed
much reaction from students on campus.
They think the student reaction may change as
the semester progresses and as word of the pictorial
gets around, but they do not anticipate any negative
feedback.
“My entire experience here as a female engi
neering student has been completely pleasant up
to this point," Schatz said. “I don’t think it should
be any different.”
Schatz said there is nothing wrong with appear
ing in Playboy.
“The country is at a state where things like this
aren’t going to matter, especially for me,” she said.
“I’m a college kid.”
Willis said she does not believe her picture will
affect her career plans.
“I don’t think it’s going to hurt [my future],
because this is what I want to do,” she said. “I want
to go into modeling.”
When friends ask Schatz why she decided to
pose for the magazine, she said she tells them,
“because I can.”
“By that, I mean that this is the only time in my
life when I can do something of this stature and not
have as intense consequences as if I were older and
in a career,” she said.
Schatz said that later in life, when she has a fami
ly and a career, she will show her children her picture
in the magazine.
“I saved one [copy of the issue], not to be touched
until I have kids,” she said.
And if her daughter should decide to follow in her
mom’s footsteps, Schatz said she would be “perfect
ly happy for her, but I would try to protect her from
any aftermath.”
Willis also said she would support her daughter in
this situation.
“You only live once,” she said.
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Wednesday • September 4, 1996
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especially for
me."
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senior biomedical
engineering major
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A Then Annie Chang kicks back to relax on the
f\/weekend, chances are there are sounds of
V Pakistani love songs in the air.
hang, a Class of ’96 electronics engineering tech-
ogy graduate, recently decided to take a break
in her recording studio, Guinea Pig Studios, after
ee years of recording local bands such as Jasmine
e, Lewis, the A&M International Music Club and,
nurse, Pakistani love songs.
The was recording music in her home, but after a
ent move, she decided there was no room in her
if residence for the equipment.
I was going to sell my stuff,” she said. “But I kind
niss recording. I’ve already been approached by a
bands who want me to record their demo tapes,
definitely get back into it once I figure out where to
up a studio.”
Tang said she came to A&M to study veteri-
ian medicine, but soon discovered she was
irgic to animals.
That kind of changed my plans,” Chang said. “I
yed bass in high school, so I started playing in
tie random bands and did some recording on a
r-track on the side.”
Vfter meeting local band members, Chang said she
lized there was a need for a studio in the Bryan-
lege Station area.
A lot of the bands I talked to were wanting to
3rd a demo tape,” Chang said, “but they couldn’t
trd to go somewhere out of town and pay $50 or
an hour.”
She mixed and produced tapes for the bands for $5
fhour, then later raised the fee to $7.50 an hour to
for equipment.
Most of the bands Chang worked with were used
to playing live shows and had never recorded in a
studio before.
“The bands were enthusiastic and interested in
their music, which made my job a lot of fun,” Chang
said. “It’s a shame there isn’t much of a music scene
here. The musicians don’t get paid well, and everyone
is so conservative.”
Chang started “gigging around” town with bands
such as Dr. Love and Crossbone Butterfly, until she
finally settled down as a bassist for Saltwater Llama in
April 1996.
“Saltwater Llama’s drummer, Baldy, had come in to
record with his band Mister Ed, then later Knee
Gaskit, so that’s how I started playing again after three
years of not being in a band,” Chang said.
Chang is a video editor at television station
KBTX, the local news channel, but has high hopes
for her future.
“I want to be a recording engineer at a big studio,”
Chang said. “That’s what I would like my career to be.”
Chang said College Station has a diverse music
scene that allows her to enjoy her job and learn about
different types of music.
“I don’t expect everyone to like every band in this
town, but there is jazz, the college alternative, and
there’s heavier stuff,” Chang said.
Chang is working on a compilation album and
expects it to be ready for release in late September or
early October.
“KANM, A&M’s public radio station, has raised a
lot of money and is going to put out a compilation
album of local bands to support the local music
scene,” Chang said.
“Kristen Palme is in charge of putting the
album together. I had the recordings, so I put the
songs in the right order on a master tape and
Annie Chang has recorded albums and demo tapes
made the changes, so now we’re just waiting on
the artwork to be completed.”
Chang said they plan to make 1,000 compact discs,
which will take about one month to complete.
“They’re going to sell enough to break even, then
they plan to distribute some to radio stations in this
area and in Austin and Houston, so that maybe the
bands will get some radio coverage,” Chang said.
The radio station also plans to give any leftover
albums to the bands on the compact disk so they can
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sell them at their shows.
The album features 10 bands, some of who are no
longer in existence, Chang said.
“I think a few of the bands have broken up, but sev
eral are still pretty popular around here, like Lewis,
Half-Life, Barry Manifold and Not It,” Chang said.
Chang said she set a goal for herself several years ago.
“I wanted to make a difference,” Chang said. “I told
myself that by the time I left A&M, there would be a
music scene.”
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