Monday, March 19, 2007

Students protest porn mag trip to Mississippi State

Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine is planning a trip to Starkville, Mississippi, in order to recruit college girls from SEC schools. They were to be there today and tomorrow. But, nearly 1,200 students signed a petition to be delivered University president Robert Fogleson, asking him and other administrators to denounce the visit from the Playboy. Jordan Graham, who helped lead the petition, said he did not want to see his school represented in the October edition of the porn magazine.

"We as students feel that it's degrading to our university," Graham says of the porn purveyor's visit. "We feel that it's degrading morally, and that it's promoting promiscuity -- not academics." In addition, says the MSU student, "we feel that it's not a true representation of [the principles upon which] Mississippi State was founded ...."
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