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Pickets an< By DAVID ADAIR Gamecock Staff Writer Playboy magazine came to Columbia this past Mondav seeking a "Miss January" 1979 for the magazine's 25th anniversary issue. Barbara Burns, Playboy's Public Relations representative called the response "Great!" She said, "One 6 5 year - old grandmother called and said, 'If I was onlv fortv-five vears vouncer I'd be down there'." Thursday morning, three women from Columbia's chapter of the National Organization for Women picketed Playboy. They marched on Assembly Street in front of the Carolina Inn where Playboy was conducting interviews in a 12th floor suite. THE PICKETERS, who carried signs saying "Playboy Promotes If the recor free, we'd be all Mono-91.9 ' 1 i fme nCI IUCDV marxism VEklVMI 254-8800 I Is your weight affecting the way you live your life? Call Overeaters Anonymous 252-6085 \ I The GAMECOCK is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published twice Wee My on Monday and Thursday during the fall end spring semesters and once weekly on Thursday during both summer terms with the exceptions of four times in August and on University of South Caroline holidays and examination periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors and not those of the I University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to The Gamecock, Drawer A, U5C, Columbia, S.C., 29206. Subscription rates are M per semester and S2 for the summer sessions. Third class postage paid at Columbia, SC. Jw iMi mm" an*?'vyinml, d pulchritu* PXi r\l i! ^ rk-. i uivr^ it riasiic reupie anu we are uie Girls Next Door," were harassed by passing motorists who shouted obscenities. Robin Anderson, secretary for the Columbia chapter of NOW said, "We are here to raise the public's consciousness and to show them that magazines of this type are exploiting women." She went on to say that Playboy encourages the idea that women can be bought and that they are sexual objects for the gratification of men. She said the average woman could never hope to raise this much money {Playboy will pay $25,000 to the woman chosen) by working at a respectable job. Bums disagreed saying, "Playboy was offering top pay to women to pose." She also said she is an example of Playboy's practice of hiring women to high paying positions and to positions of responsibility. NOW member Anderson said, "What we want is to encourage ds weren't news > WUSC GwF^e ~ ?-?ftt 17*1 russdfl house 3 MU "a un I elm Th ] 2 noor V RH THEi I ?2 ?. 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Wf\W rAnrocDnfofiirOc i^v ff I vpivoviiiciu TVO V,uai gV/U that Playboy offers an ideal image that is impossible for women to live up to. NOW also said that men who read Playboy would expect all women to live up to that image. The USC coed applicant said, "I know plenty of guys who go out with girls who don't look like the girls in Playboy, and they're pretty satisfied." She also said it was ridiculous for NOW to attack Playboy when the same perfect pening Sale w W I k# I i - * r ? 'S/'dviUMI fColumbia I ne787-7038 [ils I WIAAE me, j cer ! 3 L GUITAR uitar) rmance :REE S I Feminist objections image is presented by models on TV and in regular magazines. She also said she would pose in the nude for other magazines. SHE DID profess to qualms about posing in the nude and the fact that millions of men would be viewing her body, but she said that if cho uiac ohncpn frvr (hp P1qvK?>i KA ?UV ff MU V..VWW. tVI A *MJ MVJ centerfold, she would probably overcome her inhibitions. 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