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FRIDAY,-MAY 10, 1991
WERE FIGHTING FOR
`CUR LIFE
American Heart
Association
Staff Writer
L
isa Engelman of
Bloomfield Hills will
have to wait until Oc-
tober along with the rest of
Detroit to find out if she's
one of the "Girls of the Big
10," Playboy magazine's an-
nual series of features on col-
lege women.
Until then, Ms. Engelman
will spend her summer as
usual, painting, writing
poetry, acting, spending
time with her boyfriend and
volunteering at a homeless
shelter in Ann Arbor.
Ms. Engelman, 24, who's a
junior at the University of
Michigan, was among 50
women who interviewed last
month with Playboy photog-
rapher David Mecey.
Despite her photo shoot
and the fact that millions of
readers might see Ms.
Engelman's picture in the
fall issue of Playboy, she
declined to be photographed
by The Jewish News.
"Look, it was something I
did; I'm not ashamed I took
my clothes off, but enough is
enough. I'm not looking for
any more publicity. Anyone
who knows me, knows what
I look like," said Ms.
Engelman, who is 5-foot-3
and 102 pounds. "I don't
need to have my picture on
the pages of the Jewish
News."
Mr. Mecey, who inter-
viewed Ms. Engelman and
other Playboy hopefuls from
the ninth floor of the Cam-
pus Inn across the - street
from the university's Ann
Arbor campus, was there to
photograph women for the
magazine's third annual
"Girls of the Big 10" pic-
torial.
"The more they wear, the
smaller the fee," he said.
"It's $500 for the women
who pose nude, and less for
those who refuse."
U-M was Playboy's first
stop on an assignment that's
taken photographers, war-
drobe and makeup artists
from their Midwest head-
quarters in Chicago to Big
10 universities like Purdue,
Penn State, Indiana, Iowa;
Illinois and Wisconsin. -
After talking with ap-
plicants and shooting a few
instant photos (with clothes),
Mr. Mecey invited several
students for full photo ses-
sions later in the week.
Ms. Engelman and her
friend, Lisa Leib, a recent
graduate of U-M, were two of
the women who were called
back.
"When we heard that
Playboy was in town, we
thought it would be fun to go
over to the Campus Inn and
check it out," Ms. Engelman
said. " When I got there, I
liked what I saw."
Ms. Engelman, who has
modeled and acted profes-
sionally in Detroit and in
Los Angeles, said she was
impressed by Playboy's pro-
fessionalism.
"Everyone was extremely
friendly and honest about
what they expected of us,"
she said. "Mecey (the pho-
"The more they
wear, the smaller
the fee."
Dave Mecey
tographer) asked me right
off how I felt about taking off
my clothes for the pictorial
spread.
"I told him I wasn't
ashamed of my body and
that I considered nudity to
be a form of art," she said. "I
also told him I had a high
opinion of the work that
Playboy does. I said I
thought magazines like
Hustler and Penthouse did a
lot more to exploit women,
and that it's generally been
society and the way it is that
exploits women."
But Ms. Leib, 22, of West
Bloomfield, said she knew
she blew it when she told the
photographer she had a
problem with posing nude.
"I was one of the ones that
was called back," she said,
"but I wasn't ready to bare it
all. I knew my family would
be upset, and I thought it
might come back to haunt
me later.
"I was really excited to go
and meet the Playboy reps,"
she said, "but the talk all
over campus and in classes
was very negative. It wasn't
something you volunteered
to your professors or peers."
Playboy's visit drew an
outraged response from
almost 200 feminist students
and staff members at the
university.
Ms. Leib said the day she
and Ms. Engelman came to
the Inn, student groups were
picketing and rallying all
around campus.
"We originally decided not
to be interviewed the first
day (April 15) so a lot of the
furor would have a chance to
die down," Ms. Leib said.