After seeing Playboy's latest edition featuring "Girls of the SEC," Ole Miss students have varying opinions on whether or not female students should have been featured in the magazine and how the university was represented in the article.
Some students said they felt the girls had the right to pose for the magazine if they chose to do so, and they did not feel offended by the decision of those who did participate in the spread.
"I think if a girl wants to pose for Playboy, why not?" Tyler Gallagher, a junior industrial design major from Pass Christian, said. "Her body, her decision. If you don't like it, don't pick it up."
"I would personally never do that, but if somebody else wants to, good for them. It doesn't offend me if other girls want to pose for Playboy," Leighton Payne, a junior journalism major from Marietta, Ga., said.
"I think it's awesome. There needs to be more girls who do it," Bartow Hawes, a sophomore business major from Saint Louis, Mo., said.
However, not all students think it is good that the university was represented in an adult magazine.
Krystalyn Shefveland, a graduate instructor from Cleveland, Miss., said the magazine showed Ole Miss in a bad light.
"I don't think that representing an academic institution in that sort of venue showcases the quality of that institution in a positive manner," Shefveland said.
Molly Manning, a marketing communications major from Pine Bluff, Ark., said she didn't think the magazine was very representative of the girls at Ole Miss.
"I thought we have prettier girls at Ole Miss," Manning said. "Out of all the girls in the magazine, they were the prettiest, but they don't define what the girls really look like at Ole Miss."
Jamison Burks, a senior management information systems major from Canton, said he didn't think the magazine affected the university in a positive or negative way.
"It's their choice if they want to do it, and everyone on this campus is 18 or older," Burks said.
Alex Jackson, a junior politcal science major from Cairo, Ill., said if the school allowed Playboy on campus then he does not think the school was misrepresented.
"If the university didn't want misrepresentation, it shouldn't have allowed Playboy to come to the school," Jackson said. "They should have never been given the chance. Therefore, it wasn't a misrepresentation because the school didn't do anything about it."
Ultimately, it is the right of the student whether they want to appear in any adult publication, Kyle Greer, a senior political science major from Brentwood, Tenn., said.
"I think if a girl wants to pose for Playboy then she has every right to," Greer said. "I disagree with those who think it reflects negatively upon the school."
