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© P~tan September, 5 1984
Volume 7 Issue 3
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Bookstore Bans .Skin Magazines
Hulllorous Protest
by Robert Davis
BOULDER, CO (CPS)-If Penthouse magazine readers overrun newsstands in January searching for the second series of nude ex-Miss America photographs, they'll avoid the Univer- . •sity of Colorado-Boulder boolcstore. On August 17 ,_ Tom Cruff, CU's boolcstore trade book manager, banned Penthouse, Playboy, Playgirl and other "skin" magazines from the raclcs when Penthouse published nude photos of ~former Miss America Vanessa Williams in its September issue. The Williams controversy, which r~ emerged last week when Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione announced his magazine plans to publish more photographs of the former Syracuse ~University student engaged in various sexual activities, has accelerated .previously- building pressure on magazine sellers on several campuses to pull certain publications from their · · shelves. In the days after Penthouse announ~ }-.ed it would publish the first set of photos, for example, some Ohio State students joined demonstrators asking Columbus boolcstores to drop the skin magazines. Students at the University of Min.ii)lesota also renewed !heir campaign to get bookstores around campus to drop the magazines.
Reporter, The Metropolitan
A full FM spectrum _and inadequate equipment on campus pushed the proposed student radio station, KRMF, aside lending efforts to a campus cable network. The FM public spectrum falls between 88.f and 92 on the dial, and MSC Student Senator Ben Boltz said it would cost at least $150,000 to get on the air in that range of frequencies. . " It would cost $30,000 to $40,000 just to study the situation of wave patterns over the city," Boltz said. And, a transmitter powerful enough to compete on a crowded FM range of frequencies would cost at least $30,000, according to Boltz.
"This would be whatever · the students wanted it to be, all of the different departments use the media center anyway. It's just a matter of tying together available resources." -Ben Botlz ASMSC Senator
''It was a buyer's decision io remove part of a certain .dine, tWt censorship in any form." -Tom Cruff CU Bookstore Efforts to rid camp~ of sexoriented media, both printed and film.._ed, are not new, of course. · In 1980, Antioch University removed skin magazines from its racks when feminist groups thr_eatened to boycott the campus boolcstore Last spring, students at the University of California-Davis and the Univer1'""Sity of Masachusetts-Amherst also threatened boycotts to rid their bookstores of the magazines, but the attempts failed. In June, the University of Hawaii student government voted down a bill ..._to ban the campus sale of magazines and postcards featuring nudes. A month earlier, the University of Virginia student Government junked a similar proposal because it smacked of cen5otship. Colorado, in fact, is one of the -schools actually to implement a ban. "It was a buyer's decision to remove part of a certain line, not censorship in any form," says Colorado's Cruff. The ban, effective the last day of CU's summer semester, has produced _little student reaction, but Cruff claim~ "''everyone else is happy with the deci-
Radio Station Put on Hold
One Auraria Student shows his displeasure with vendors in the Student Center, who last week were selling discount cards for siding and asking everyone that walked by "Excuse me, are you going skiing this year?" -photo by Jim ·Bailey
He said there is a need for a communication medium that is run for and by the students. "We have 811 of the resources needed for cable ·a n campus now," Boltz said. "All we would need is some televisions in the student lounges." The campus is currently wired with cable for easy access to audio/visual aids. Patricia Breiuik, director of the Auraria library and Murial Woods, director of the media center have urged the Student Facilities Policy Council, currently considering the idea, to pursue the proposal's early phases. The proposal ~alls for student proOOlll.
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