It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and a passerby is asking senior Candice Maria for a smoke. But Maria has far more to reveal than a box of cigarettes.

“Do you want to see my boobs?” she asks the passerby, responding to his inquiry about the content of the magazine open on her lap.

Not accustomed to Duke women making such offers just outside of Perkins library, the perplexed passerby inevitably accepts, prompting Maria to hand him the magazine-Playboy’s 2009 “Girls of the ACC” issue, released Sept. 11.

“That’s me,” she says, pointing to a photograph of a tall blonde woman exposing her bare breasts.

For the last 33 years, Playboy has published a college issue featuring a nude college pictorial of students from different conference schools. This year, the issue features 13 women from the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Aside from the University of Maryland, which has three, and Boston College, which has none, each school in the ACC has one representative in this year’s college issue. Maria represented Duke.

“I just think [Playboy] is a really classy magazine, everything is done tastefully,” she said. “A lot of celebrities have done Playboy. It’s kind of something I wanted to do growing up.”

In the September print issue, Maria is nude but only exposes her breasts, but online, she displays all of her intimate parts.

Maria said although she told the photographer she preferred to be featured only topless in the print edition, retrospectively, she would not have qualms about posing fully nude.

The spread showcasing the collegiate women is always one of the most talked-about features in the magazine, Playboy Junior Publicist Tina Manzo said. She attributed much of the pictorial’s popularity to its emphasis on “the girl next door” type of look.

“It’s like someone you could bump into at a bar or sit next to in a math class,” she said. “Someone down to earth, laid back, but still beautiful who has the extra ‘oomph’ with extra sparkle that makes her stand out a little bit…. And that’s the same for Candice.” Full article

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