
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003152429
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: DURHAM, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short

CORRIGAN UNHAPPY WITH PLAYBOY'S ACC GIRLS

Playboy magazine is receiving its first formal protest from a collegiate athletic conference over the magazine's feature on women from its schools.

ACC Commissioner Gene Corrigan on Wednesday sent a letter to Playboy, protesting its publication of an article in the April issue titled "Girls of the ACC."

Corrigan was asked to write the letter to Arthur Kretchmer, Playboy's editor, by the ACC's eight university presidents when they met Saturday in Charlotte during the ACC Tournament.

The issue had 36 photographs of female students either clothed, semi-nude or nude.

"We discussed it and I think everybody felt the same way," Corrigan told the Durham Morning Herald. "We don't like that publication using our name, our conference, the names of our schools or our seals."

Corrigan said, however, the ACC has no legal recourse to Playboy using pictures of women students from ACC schools.

"Just as we recognize our students' and your right of free expression, I expect you will recognize the impropriety of demeaning and commercially exploiting our universities in a lewd magazine article," Corrigan said in the letter.i

"It is my sincere hope that you will reflect on the importance and value of higher education to our society and decline to publish features which are designed only to generate income through the exploitation of women, their universities and athletic conferences," he wrote.

Corrigan's letter will be the first formal protest by an athletic conference or school since the feature began in 1977, a Playboy spokeswoman said. - Associated Press

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