UA students pose for Playboy magazine
Gentry Lassiter
Issue date: 9/10/07 Section: News
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The women do not expect their decision to pose for Playboy to affect their future professional lives, they said.
"I don't expect [future employers] to put it together. If they do, they'd probably be too embarrassed to say anything about it - hopefully. Then it would be silent. If they did have a problem with it, then I would have a problem with it and I wouldn't want to work there anyway," Hansen said.
Schaffer said she also would not work in an environment that would be critical of her decision.
Both women said people they know are supportive of them.
"My parents were really excited," Schaffer said. Her parents told her to be prepared for some criticism, but they were otherwise supportive, she said.
"My friends are very supportive of me. They were really excited about everything," Hansen said. "They're going to the promotional stuff like the autograph signing and then we're going to Speakeasy that night," she said.
Playboy is hosting various promotional events around town, including an autograph session at Hastings on Tuesday and a bar party at Speakeasy that evening, according to a Playboy publicist.
Although the majority of Hansen's friends are supportive of her, she said that she did have one acquaintance who did not approve of her posing in Playboy. "She can have her opinion, and she doesn't have to push it on me," Hansen said.
Chancellor John A. White expressed some thoughts about the situation in an e-mail.
"While their actions are not endorsed by the university, nor do we encourage such actions, students are absolutely free to make their own moral choices and engage in legal endeavors as independent adults," White wrote. "However, I hope they do so with full recognition of the long-term impacts such decisions could have. Just as decisions regarding content in [social networking sites] can have long-term effects, so can decisions to be included in magazines such as Playboy," he wrote.
"[White] has his opinion and we can have our opinion," Hansen said. "He's not going to force that upon us, then that's fine."
Schaffer said that as long as she isn't in danger of being kicked out of the university then she is not bothered by White's opinion either.
Two students appearing in a magazine will not have any noteworthy impact on a community as large as the UA, White wrote.
"People whose opinions of the university are impacted negatively are obviously missing the bigger picture of what is happening on our campus," he wrote.
"I don't expect [future employers] to put it together. If they do, they'd probably be too embarrassed to say anything about it - hopefully. Then it would be silent. If they did have a problem with it, then I would have a problem with it and I wouldn't want to work there anyway," Hansen said.
Schaffer said she also would not work in an environment that would be critical of her decision.
Both women said people they know are supportive of them.
"My parents were really excited," Schaffer said. Her parents told her to be prepared for some criticism, but they were otherwise supportive, she said.
"My friends are very supportive of me. They were really excited about everything," Hansen said. "They're going to the promotional stuff like the autograph signing and then we're going to Speakeasy that night," she said.
Playboy is hosting various promotional events around town, including an autograph session at Hastings on Tuesday and a bar party at Speakeasy that evening, according to a Playboy publicist.
Although the majority of Hansen's friends are supportive of her, she said that she did have one acquaintance who did not approve of her posing in Playboy. "She can have her opinion, and she doesn't have to push it on me," Hansen said.
Chancellor John A. White expressed some thoughts about the situation in an e-mail.
"While their actions are not endorsed by the university, nor do we encourage such actions, students are absolutely free to make their own moral choices and engage in legal endeavors as independent adults," White wrote. "However, I hope they do so with full recognition of the long-term impacts such decisions could have. Just as decisions regarding content in [social networking sites] can have long-term effects, so can decisions to be included in magazines such as Playboy," he wrote.
"[White] has his opinion and we can have our opinion," Hansen said. "He's not going to force that upon us, then that's fine."
Schaffer said that as long as she isn't in danger of being kicked out of the university then she is not bothered by White's opinion either.
Two students appearing in a magazine will not have any noteworthy impact on a community as large as the UA, White wrote.
"People whose opinions of the university are impacted negatively are obviously missing the bigger picture of what is happening on our campus," he wrote.
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