Word: channing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, back on the Harvard campus, photographer David Chan offered a slightly more unreal competition when he attempted to recruit undergraduate women to pose in a Playboy issue on "Women of the Ivy League...
...that debate did little to resolve the issues at hand, which was not surprising, since the conflict between free speech and perceived pornography is one of the great civil libertarian conundrums of our time. Those in the skin trade take full advantage of the public confusion, Chan among them. Even as the Crimson debated, Chan placed an ad in the Boston Globe and was himself profiled in the paper's Living section. "I got censored. I felt very sad about that," he told the Globe ingenuously. "I never thought it would happen here at Harvard, where presumably people think...
...some cases second thought, student papers at Princeton (where, as at Harvard, the editor is a woman), Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale and Brown ran the ad, deciding, as Brown Daily Herald Editor in Chief Robert Linn explained, "to let people make up their own minds." Unbowed and uncensored, Chan continued his wintry progression through the Ivy League, stirring up debate, protest and publicity At Yale, when Daily News Publisher Thomas L. Kelly accepted the ad, overriding the editorial board's published distaste, posters appeared on campus urging FIGHT PLAYBOYBUNNYISM. At Columbia the ad inspired a student symposium on campus sexism...
Having screened about 100 candidates at each campus, Chan claimed to be delighted by the response. "Frankly, I always have the best results in a small community," he confides. "The local papers and television and radio come after me. I can get lost in a big city...
...would presumably intelligent women at the nation's most prestigious colleges aspire to notoriety as airbrushed sex objects? "The human body is an artwork in itself," says one aspirant, Brown Literature Major Cynthia 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...