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STANFORD - Freshmen show skin for tsunami-aid calendar 01/21/2005 More than a dozen Stanford University freshmen have put together an eye-c atching calendar, inspired by southern Asia tsunami victims and naked Ma ine lobster fishermen. The calendar, which has already sold 70 copies and no doubt will sell hun dreds more, features 14 students from Larkin Hall, a freshman dormitory. "You can't see anything," said Pam Geist, one of three Larkin students wh o created the calendar, which will raise funds for Save the Children. Geist is topless in the April photo, but her long hair and a discreet cam era angle make sure she is revealing nothing more than a liberal halter top would. Co-creators Joel Lewenstein and Andrew Burmon are the August models, with both holding cameras in strategic places. The February photo of Cori Marquis, which ran in the Stanford Daily newsp aper Thursday, shows her in a library with two books covering her breast s A helpful friend shields her nether regions with the Time magazine Pe rson of the Year cover, showing President Bush. Burman said the calendars sell for $10 apiece, with half the money going to Save the Children as part of the Stanford Student Relief effort to he lp survivors of the Dec. The three organizers t ook the pictures, and a local printer put the calendars together at cost because of the charitable connection. Geist said a big push to sell the calendars will come next week, when the students set up a table at Stanford's White Plaza and visit other dorms .
Associated Students President Chioke Borgelt-Mose said she was impressed with the trio's naked enthusiasm. "I haven't heard any negative reactions," Borgelt-Mose said late Thursday afternoon. She said students and faculty around Stanford are doing whatever they can to help the tsunami victims, and she is glad the freshmen are chipping in. Dean of Students Greg Boardman could not be reached Thursday. The only concern he heard was that perhaps someone who was directly involved in the tsunami tragedy might be offended by the calendar's humor. "I would certainly hope they would understand why we did it," he said. "I t's a light tone, but reflecting the severity of the disaster." "We've gotten a lot of positive feedback from within our dorm," Geist sai d If anyone does oppose the calendar, it's certainly not because of sex ism; She explained that the calendar's theme is "a day in the life" of a Larki n student. One picture is in a dining hall, another in a laundry room. It started when Burm on, who grew up in the Boston area, described how Maine lobster fisherme n used to supplement their incomes by posing nude for a calendar. Even getting the students to pose nude wasn't much of a challenge, after a little initial nervousness, Geist said.
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