If you want to be remembered here at IU, posing nude for Playboy is not the way to do it. I can see it now: You receive a call from Hugh Hefner's bunny boys and for three seconds you feel famous. You go to the hotel, fill out the application and nervously pretend to be someone you're not. It sounds like a good idea at the time, but a quick phone call to your mother makes you think otherwise. You ignore your mother's advice, take off your clothes and strike a few sexy poses for a stranger with a camera. \nThree months later and a little air brushing, there you are, on page 27 of Playboy representing IU. You spend the next three years at IU avoiding eye contact with your teachers trying to convince yourself you made the right decision. And you can't show your face at home because your town knows you as a Playboy bunny.\nIf posing for Playboy is your ultimate goal, congratulations for taking this opportunity. But since you are attending IU, I would imagine you have a different purpose in life. \nThink about the controversy the dorm porn caused. I guarantee if you asked any one of those participants if they would do it all over again, they would say no. Do you want to be the topic of conversation among University officials? I would rather impress Gerald Bepko and our future president than Hugh Hefner.\nThis isn't the first time Playboy hit up Big Ten universities for girls. According to www.playboy.com, in the March 1998 issue we had ten representatives from our University. IU racked up the biggest number in that issue. Purdue only had one. How many will we have this year? \nThere are many reasons why you should not pose naked for Playboy.\nLet's face it -- being a Playboy centerfold isn't exactly a resume builder. Unless your future boss is a subscriber, he probably won't be too keen on the idea of one of his employees representing his company in a degrading manner. And employers are smart; they do their research. Chances are he'll know you posed before you receive your second interview. \nAs appealing as it sounds to be an old man's fantasy, it doesn't really have any perks. Trust me, I worked at a retirement home, and I've seen what Playboy does to perverted old men. Do you want to be the reason an 80-year-old man can't leave his room? If that's not convincing, do you want to be the reason a 15-year-old finds out about breasts?\nFurthermore, instead of being coffee table material, you'll be suffocated underneath the bed or kept next to the toilet seat. \n Look at the bright side -- every guy at IU will probably have a copy of the issue you're in. Although you think they'll want to date you, chances are, they'll only want to "date" you for a night. They've already seen you naked, so there's nothing left to the imagination. Guys will probably have your face memorized. They'll call you. They'll stalk you, and they'll degrade you.\n All the respectful women I know would never take off their clothes for a stranger. It's a little thing called values. It's not classy. It's not funny, and it's not going to get you anywhere. I've watched the Playboy specials on television. Girls in string bikinis run around Hefner's mansion and pretend to be content with their lives. They don't have much to say about anything, and they probably haven't eaten in months. I don't see much to look forward to about life as a Playboy model. Think about that before you get naked for the nation.
