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Collegian hits 115 years
Geoff Johnson
Issue date: 12/11/06 Section: News
On Thursday, May 4, 1972, the cover of the Collegian featured a naked woman with a folded American flag draped across her lap and a glass of wine in her hand.
Investigation of articles, teamed up with risqué photographs, came as a result of the Collegian's 115th anniversary this month.
The photo went along with a story about CSU's "College Days" - "Miss Moo U toasts Happy College Days" - a tradition unbeknownst to CSU students since 1987, when the event was cancelled.
Asked what he might do if he saw a naked woman on the cover of the Collegian, Scott Champion said, "My initial reaction would be, 'What the hell?'"
"Then, I'd think it was art," the senior liberal arts major said. Laughing, Champion added, "Very interesting. That was in the thick of the hippy movement."
Caitlin Carson, a junior sociology major studying for a final exam in criminology with Champion near the coffee stand in the library, asked, "Did hippies drink wine?"
Studying calculus in the Lory Student Center food court on Sunday, Christine Benson said, "It seems inappropriate. (The Collegian) is open to so many people. It's like someone has no choice but to see that."
Benson, a senior mathematics education major, mentioned the Oct. 16, 2006, article in the Collegian, "Nude kids on the block," an article about streaking which had a photo of three naked men covering up with footballs.
"(The streakers) didn't really show anything (inappropriate)," Benson said. "People don't have a choice (if there are breasts on the front page)."
Enjoying a Subway sandwich in the LSC, sophomore health promotion major Tim Halliday said, "I'd be surprised (if I saw a naked woman on the cover)."
"It probably wouldn't fly today," he added.
A little more than 14 years before the Collegian ran the article with the nude photo, the paper's managing editor, Bill Zint, wrote an editorial piece titled "Women Attend College?"
The column that printed Feb. 18, 1958, included the commentary: "A college education is important for a woman in order for her to be a good wife, mother and citizen."
Investigation of articles, teamed up with risqué photographs, came as a result of the Collegian's 115th anniversary this month.
The photo went along with a story about CSU's "College Days" - "Miss Moo U toasts Happy College Days" - a tradition unbeknownst to CSU students since 1987, when the event was cancelled.
Asked what he might do if he saw a naked woman on the cover of the Collegian, Scott Champion said, "My initial reaction would be, 'What the hell?'"
"Then, I'd think it was art," the senior liberal arts major said. Laughing, Champion added, "Very interesting. That was in the thick of the hippy movement."
Caitlin Carson, a junior sociology major studying for a final exam in criminology with Champion near the coffee stand in the library, asked, "Did hippies drink wine?"
Studying calculus in the Lory Student Center food court on Sunday, Christine Benson said, "It seems inappropriate. (The Collegian) is open to so many people. It's like someone has no choice but to see that."
Benson, a senior mathematics education major, mentioned the Oct. 16, 2006, article in the Collegian, "Nude kids on the block," an article about streaking which had a photo of three naked men covering up with footballs.
"(The streakers) didn't really show anything (inappropriate)," Benson said. "People don't have a choice (if there are breasts on the front page)."
Enjoying a Subway sandwich in the LSC, sophomore health promotion major Tim Halliday said, "I'd be surprised (if I saw a naked woman on the cover)."
"It probably wouldn't fly today," he added.
A little more than 14 years before the Collegian ran the article with the nude photo, the paper's managing editor, Bill Zint, wrote an editorial piece titled "Women Attend College?"
The column that printed Feb. 18, 1958, included the commentary: "A college education is important for a woman in order for her to be a good wife, mother and citizen."
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Kathy
posted 12/11/06 @ 11:07 AM MST
I still have my copy of that issue of the Collegian with that naked girl on it! College Days was a blast - I think '73 was the year of the Pig-nic somewhere out in the country - copious amounts of substance abuse and music and fun. (Continued…)
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