Posted on 12/10/2002 3:03:39 AM PST by kattracks
(CNSNews.com)- College presidents beware: An adult film company could be headed to your campus.
That is the message Indiana University is sending after Los Angeles-based Shane Enterprises, maker of "Shane's World" videos, showed up at the Bloomington campus in early October to tape a segment for a sex movie.
The university also has a message for Shane Enterprises executives -- if the company's film stars ever set foot on campus again, they could be charged with trespassing.
That threat does not scare the adult film company, which caters to a college audience by filming student sex acts. A publicist said the company has no plans to alter its business practices and it would not hesitate to visit another college campus in the future.
"We've already had several e-mails from students at various colleges inviting us," said Calli Cox, a Shane Enterprises spokeswoman and adult film actress. "We have nothing planned, but if the situation arises and someone wants us to come, we're definitely going to do it."
Indiana University spokeswoman Jane Jankowski said Cox should stay away or face possible criminal charges.
"We notified them that if their company came back to campus, we would consider that trespassing," Jankowski said. "We have an open campus, but we have a policy that requires permission for any company that wants to film a movie or do some sort of taping. It's very clear that did not happen in this case."
Shane Enterprises has riled campus administrators with the production of two recent films. "Shane's World No. 32: Campus Invasion," featuring Indiana University students, will be released next week. But even before it was taped, Arizona State University was reprimanding students for their involvement in "Shane's World No. 29: Frat Row Scavenger Hunt 3."
Four on-campus fraternities in Tempe were involved in the production of the video, which was taped in July. Following a university investigation in September, two fraternities were suspended, one was placed on probation and another left campus as a result of an earlier violation.
"The actions of the Arizona State University students who participated in -- or tolerated -- the making of a sexually explicit video in several ASU fraternities constitute behavior that is completely and utterly unacceptable," the university's president, Michael Crow, said in a statement.
Indiana University Chancellor Sharon Stephens Brehm took a similar stance. She condemned the taping in a statement released Friday, and announced that at least two students could be brought up on campus judicial charges.
"These were deplorable actions by a company intent on exploiting the university and our students," Brehm said. "These are sexual predators whose behavior violates all basic principles of common decency."
Between 20 and 30 students signed releases to appear in the flick, which was filmed mostly at private locations off campus. But one scene, shot in a campus dormitory, has generated a bundle of attention.
Of the two students now facing disciplinary action from the university, one allegedly let the crew into the dorm and another allegedly participated in a sex act in a public area, according to a university statement.
Cox maintains the company did nothing wrong. She said the company did not trespass since the school is located on public land and the camera crew only entered the dorm after being invited by students. When a staff member confronted them, Cox said the crew left immediately.
"We feel bad for any students who are going to receive disciplinary action for the things they did behind closed doors in the privacy of their own rooms," she said. "They are adults and they've made adult decisions. It's not the university's responsibility to monitor what goes on in the private lives of students."
Theresa Hennessey, spokeswoman for Playboy Enterprises, echoed that sentiment. She said her company's famed magazine has faced the same type of criticism for its annual college issue. Many of those concerns were aired in the spring when Playboy was holding photo shoots.
The annual issue came out in October and is among Playboy's biggest sellers, Hennessey said.
"The schools really shouldn't be controlling what the students do in their free time," she said. "Everything was conducted off campus, so it wasn't interfering with schoolwork or the university. The girls are free to do what they want."
"College students have sex anyway," Cox added. "That's something that occurs. There's definitely a market to produce adult videos for that age group."
Even if that is the case, Indiana University hopes other schools can avoid controversy by taking steps in advance.
"We hope that other campuses will be aware," Jankowski said. "Somebody else could be next, so just have your antenna up if there are people who look out of place on your campus."
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No doubt.
Are these "adults" paying thier own way through college, or are these "adults" still nursing at the green teat of mom and dads wallet. I'd wager they are there on mom and dads nickel - geee, they must be so proud
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While I'd like to agree here, these students represent the University, not themselves. That is, when these companies go to a campus and make a video and mention the schools name. Same for Playboy. The universities have every right to not let these companies on campus and to punish students who violate policies of the university.
These people have every right to make movies, but the universities have every right to not be an unwilling part of the film.
Gee, it's comforting to know they have addressed violent and property crime so thoroughly as to have time to do that digging into obscure, unenforced, and dubious laws.
Some guys down the hall from me always have a stack of girlie mags floating around their office. Naturally, I pick them up and flip through them when I'm down there.
The college babe issue this year was creepy. So many of the girls had obvious boob jobs/breast augmentations/implants that they didn't look alluring, just doll-like.
Of course there are image games played with the lighting, air brushing and digital manipulation, but I found myself oddly repelled.
And I also found it sad that such beautiful girls felt the need to undergo surgery when their natural gifts were quite splendid to start with.
Of course, a professor can offer a course on the artistic aspects of pornography, or the womyn's studies group can offer a graphic class on the joys of lesbianism, or there can be a school-sponsored screening of the Vagina Monologues, which celebrates a statutory lesbian encounter with an underage girl, but THAT'S different...
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