Playboy signing session attracts UNL fans, no protesters
ByKaseyKerber
Staff Reporter
More than 150 men stood in line
during the first hour of Monday’s
“Girls of the Big 12” Playboy maga
zine signing session at Q4Quik, 17th
and Vine streets.
While the men lined up for the
event, protestors who last semester
questioned the magazine’s decision to
visit the campus were conspicuously
absent. The October issue of Playboy
features Tami Unger, a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln junior elementary
education major, along with women
from the other 11 Big 12 universities.
The signing session featured Unger
and the University of Missouri’s Hali
Riley informally signing copies of the
issue.
While signing, Unger and Riley
spoke about their experiences posing
for Playboy and about the October is
sue.
“Actually, when the announcement
came out that Playboy would be com
ing to Lincoln, my boyfriend was the
one who motivated me to do it,” Unger
said.
During Playboy’s recruitment visit
in late April, a small group of UNL
students protested the presence of the
magazine and radio talk show host
John Baylor devoted his KLIN morn
ing show blasting the magazine.
Yet no protesters were on site Mon
day, when a line of mostly college men
extended from the door to the gas
pumps.
“I came because I was curious to
see what she looked like,” said Jason
Varner, a sophomore business admin
i strati mi major. “I still have the same
respect fM her.”
Many of the other men standing in
line refused to comment, saying they
feared their girlfriends’ wrath.
Unger said she thought the Play
boy issue would help her later in life
and dismissed last April’s protests of
the issue.
“People don’t give Playboy a
chance,” Unger said. “It’s a beautiful
magazine.”
When asked what impressions she
thought guys would take from her pic
torial and die issue itself, Unger said
she hoped she and all women would
gain respect.
“I hope guys will respect women,
know that we’re intelligent,” Unger
said.
Riley agreed.
“I would like guys to see that it’s
possible to be in school, be intelligent
and make a respectable name for
themselves,” she said.
Unger also commented on two
specks of interest within the issue —
the fact that she raises “bunnies” and
a temporary tattoo she wore in the pic
torial.
“I’ve been raising rabbits since I
was five and really didn’t think of it
at all when I went in for Playboy,”
Unger said. “Now I guess it’s sort of
ironic.”
The tattoo, a tiny Herbie Husker,
was all that she wore in her shoot. She
said the Playboy makeup artist had the
idea for the tattoo.
Gary Bowers, regional sales man
ager of Warner Publisher Services,
said he expected the issue to be a sell
out.
“It will definitely be a sellout in this
area,” Bowers said. “The publicity
greatly boosts sales.”
Elizabeth Norris, director of pub
lic relations at Playboy, said the issue
would most likely sell out at a national
level as well.
“The women in the issue are beau
tiful and it can’t help but to attract
sales,” Norris said.
Two more signing sessions are
scheduled today. The first will be from
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Gas ‘N
Shop, 951 West 0 St., and the second
will be from 3:30 pjn. to 5:30 pjn. at
Gas *N Shop, 5560 S. 48th St.
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