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Hefner's Credo . . .
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misters Fonder Flayboy Philosophy
By John Fryar
Junior Staff Writer
Dealing with a wide
range of topics on sex and
morality in contemporary
society, the Playboy Philo
sophy has produced com
ment and criticism among
campus ministers.
The philosophy is written
by the magazine's editor,
Hugh Hefner. Its subtitle
terms it "a statement in
which playboy's editor-publisher
s p e 11 s out for
friends and critics alike
our guiding principles and
editorial credo."
In the November, 1965 is
sue Hefner wrote, "Dr.
Kinsey's book, "Sexual Be
havior in the Human Male"
disturbs me. Not because I
consider the American peo
ple overly immoral, but be
cause this study makes ob
vious the lack of under
standing and realistic think
ing that have gone into the
formation of our sex stand
ards and laws."
Moral Pretenses
"Our moral pretenses
and our hypocrisy on mat
ters of sex have led to in
calculable frustration, de
linquency and unhappi
ness," Hefner continues.
This was written in the
23rd installment of the phil
osophy, with Hefner adding
that "a conclusion to the
series is nowhere in sight."
Dr. Alan Pickering of the
United Campus Christian
Fellowship said that he has
subscribed to and read
Playboy for a number of
years.
Father Raymond Haine
of the Newman Center said
that while he had only
read a few of the maga
zines, he had encouraged
students to study them in
telligently before issuing
blanket approval or con
demnation. The Rev. A. J. Norden of
the Campus Lutheran Cen
ter said that he doesn't
read Playboy and thinks
that it is the type of publi
cation that misleads the
reader as regarding moral
ity in sex.
Dr. Pickering and Father
Haln both said, however,
that the number of people
who read the philosophy as
compared to the number
who merely iook ai me
magazine is minimal.
Terming himself "100 per
Groups To Nominate
For Queen, BMOC
The All University Fund
(AUF) Dance will be held
on Saturay, Oct. 29 in the
Nebraska Union ballroom
at 9 p.m.
Booths on the second
floor lounge will include
darts, ring-toss and other
games.
BMOC (Big Man on Cam
pus) will be elected at the
dance and the Activities
Queen will be announced.
Each major organization
may nominate two sopho
more girls to go thrugh in
terviews for Activities
Queen and each minor or
ganization may nominate
one.
The first interview for
Activities Queen will be
held on Oct. 20 when seven
finalists will be selected.
These finalists will go
World Luncheons Held
For Foreign Students
Every Thursday noon at
the UCCF a program of
world luncheons is held to
acquaint international stu
dents at the University with
the life of typical Nebras
kans. The program is co-sponsored
by the UCCF and the
Lincoln YWCA.
According to Rev. Wil
liam Phillips, the program
has been held for the last
few years with about 30 peo
ple attending each of the
luncheons.
. Rev. Phillips said the
main purpose of the pro-
Mystery Of Clock
Solved At Selleck
Someone pulled the wires
out of the clock in the six
thousand building of Sel
leck Tuesday.
An irate coed protesting
against AWS hours? Ap
parently not, as Mrs. Pierce,
resident director of Selleck,
explained that maintenance
men had stopped the clock
because of faulty insulation.
cent in the affirmative" re
garding Hefner's condem
nation of outdtated laws
pertaining to sex, Dr. Pick
ering said that he also
thought Hefner's ideas on
postal censorship were
"very apropos."
Ten Commandments
Dr. Pickering said that
while some of the sexual
i d e a s in the philosophy
were contrary to the Ten
Commandments, t h 9 s e
commandments were con
temporary rules that have
to be interpreted in tha
light of today's society.
The philosophy is driving
back from the "Augustinlan
Greek dualism", Dr. Pick
ering said, to the Judaeo
Christian idea of a "whole
man, composed of flesh as
well as spirit."
Hefner started out with
a "poor job" of philosophiz
ing, Dr. Pickering said, but
has changed to areas of
self-responsibility.
Dr. Pickering said thai
he began reading the maga
zine in order to get an Idea
of what his student parish
ioners were reading and
thinking about, and ulti
mately subscribed to t h e
magazine as well as parts
of the philosophy.
"Playboy will contine to
have a place in society as
long as there are such
things as archaic laws and
college administrations who
think the lid should De
placed on student moral
ity," Dr. Pickering said.
Both Dr. Pickering and
Father Hain said that the
Playboy philosophy was a
good stimulant to intelli
gent thought and discus
sion, but both attacked the
place of woman in the phil
osophy. Chattel
Dr. Pickering said t a a t
the philosophy still treats
women as chattel, and
termed their place in t h e
Playboy scheme of thought
as the "bunny-type mara
schino cherry' 'topping of
the playboy's necessary
collection of wordly goods.
He added, though, that he
didn't see it as a "girlie"
magazine.
Father Hain said that the
philosophy seems to hold
woman as a "tool" of t h e
ideal playboy. He added
that there is a little that
through a second interview
on the following Thursday.
The Activities Queen will
be announced at the AUF
Dance on Oct. 29.
The girls will be judged
on the basis of grades, ac
tivities, and presence of
mind during the interview,
according to Jennifer Mar
shall, chairman of the AUF
Special Events Committee.
Miss Marshall added that
each organization is to use
its own discretion in decid
ing whether it is a major
or a minor organization.
Any organization which
has not received a letter
and would like to put up a
candifate Jennife Marshall
at the Gamma Phi Beta
house.
All proceeds from the
dance and carnival will go
to charity.
gram is to try to better
acquaint international stu
dents with certain aspects
of the American society.
This is done by having
speakers in various fields
such as civil rights, politics,
and student affairs deliver
informal talks to the guests.
He said that last year,
guest speakers included Dr.
Robert Trask who spoke on
the concept of the "n e w
left." In his talk, Trask dis
cussed what the effects of
the "new left" were and
advised students about tak
ing part in student rights.
A local disc jockey spoke
on jazz in the American so
ciety. Roger Elice, program di
rector, said that this week
Alice Watts from Stillman
College in Alabama will
talk about the Stillman ex
change project.
On Oct. 20 Andrea Bock
will talk about her summer
in Chicago with the YWCA.
James Blackburn, Dean
of the Engineering College,
will discuss engineering in
the American society.
is "good and true" about
the philosophy, but that the
major flaw was that it
doesn't recognize moral re
sponsibility. There is a failure on the
part of the follower of the
philosophy to hold himself
accountable for his sexual
freedoms. Father Hain
said, and there is "no be
nevolent love" involved, but
rather the idea that man is
a creature to whom pleas
ure is necessary.
Father Hain said that in
a sermon last year he had
told students to go abend
and read Playboy with an
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intelligent and questioning
attitude, much the same us
they would study a text.
Rev. Norden also object
ed to the "making a thing
out of the person you enjoy
sex with." He added that
the magazine seems to pro
mote the idea of man look
ing at woman as merely an
object of pleasure.
If the reader has a good
moral background, Rev.
Norden said that the maga
zine might have some val
ue, but that even this was
"questionable."
Undisciplined Sex
"Hefner never points out
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warn Wooly Alee
Hathaway: Mr. Allen, when did you start wearing
Hathaway Club shirts?
Allen: In college. I found they attracted more
girls than any other kind.
Hathaway: Really? What accounted for that?
Allen: I don't know. Maybe it was the way the
tapered body showed off my manly chest.
Or the way the casual flare of the collar
set off my rugged face.
Hathaway: Are you serious?
Allen: Of course. Once, one of your Club shirts
saw me through three remarkably involved affairs.
And each of the young ladies, in the intimacy
of a study hall, confessed that her initial attraction
had been my Hathaway shirt.
Hathaway; Mr. Allen, I have the distinct feeling that
you're putting me on. Did you really wear
our shirts in college?
Allen: No. But when I look back on my sex life
then, I certainly wish I had.
that the world's people
have suffered because of
undisciplined sex and sex
out of wedlock," Rev. Nor
den said.
Rev. Norden said that the
philosophy seems to center
In sex as an end In itself,
and he particularly con
demned Hefner for having
the "warped idea of sex
being condemned by the
churches or regarded as an
evil thing by them."
Hefner wrote in the phil
osophy that "the coming of
Christianity did not lessen
the importance of sex in
religion, it merely altered
its value. Sex ceased to be
something sacred and be
vame something evil."
He added, "All sexual re
lations outside of marriage,
and all deviations where
procreation was impossible
(in or out of wedlock) were
considered mortal sins."
In recent months many
ministers and theology stu
dents have been writing to
Playboy, showing a reli
gious readership If not
complete agreement.
In the September issue
two ministers and a semi
nary student had letters in
the Playboy Forum. The
seminary student put his
attitude this way: "The
Playboy Philosophy might
not be perfect; but then,
you never hear anyone ask,
'Is Playboy dead?' "
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Drath Reports Draft
Change To Affect Determents
Nebraska men who have
passed their 26th birthday
without being drafted be
cause of draft deferments
will not be called until at
least January or February,
according to Col. Francis
Drath, head of the Nebras
ka Selective Service.
Drath said that because
of the cuts In the Novem
ber and December draft
calls, he Is "sure that these
people will not be needed
before January or Febru
ary." He said that most of the
men in this category at the
University are probably on
Counselors Give
'Info9 On Draft
The University Administra
tion is considering including
information concerning consci
entious objection along with
other information about t h e
draft, according to Russell
Brown, psychological counse
lor of the University counsel
ing service.
The information would be
in the nature of laws and pro
cedure for filing as a consci
entious objector.
Brown added that he is cur
rently discussing this with the
ASUN Student Welfare Com
mittee and ASUN President
Terry Schaaf.
era
student or teaching defer
ments, but it is left to the
student's local board wheth
er he will be called up.
For men in the 26 to 35
age group to be drafted,
they must be presently
listed a 1-A and have been
previously deferred.
Drath estimated that,
about 700 Nebraska men
will be a f f e c t e d by the
change.
About 70,000 men on the
national level have been
ordered to take physical
examinations and is ex
expected to produce about
50,000 potential draftees.
According to Drath, the
men presently undergoing
physicals would be placed
in what is known as the
"fifth priority category" for
induction.
Under the present order
of call, the first to be in
ducted are delinquents, who
failed to follow proper local
board procedures.
Second are the 19 to 25-year-olds
volunteers, and
third, those In the group
who are single or were
married after August 26,
1965. Fourth are 19 to 25
year old men without chil
dren who were married on
or before August 26, 1965.
Fifth, and so far not
called, are the men now to
be examined. The youngest
in that group would be
Call Cuts,
called first. Last in line are
the 18 to 19-year-olds.
Drath said that the pres
ent draft calls for October
and November are 246 and
207 respectfully, but he
noted that the call for No
vember has now been re
duced by about 15 per cent.
He said that the national
call for November is 43,700
and just recently announced
call for December is only
about 12,000, which, accord
ing to Drath, should result
in a rather small Nebras
ka call.
Tuesday s Forum
Over Problems
A forum will be held next
Tuesday to bring the students
and members of the admin,
istration together to express
their views on various prob
lems concerning the Univer.
S1The forum is sponsored by
ASUN and, according to Rog
er Doerr, vice president of
ASUN, it could become a
"Hyde Park with administra
tors." The first forum of a
planned series, it will be con
cerned with a program pre
sented by the administration,
however there will be an op
portunity for the discussion of
any problems presented.
The forum is scheduled for
4 p.m. in the Pawnee Room
of the Nebraska Union.
