1990_04 Insight April 1990

              Playboy offers student big break
Chowchilla native chosen from 150 to represent CSUF
DONN1LL ALEXANDER
STAFF WJOTER
Kathy Jenkins has never heard
of Tina Bockrath, but they've
traveled similar paths. They've
both looked to Playboy Enterprises
for their big chance.
Bockrath did it in 1988 when
she walked off the University of
Texas at Austin campus and into
the range of Playboy photographer
David Chan's lens. From there she
went on to be featured in that
year's Girls of the Southeast
Conference pictorial and ended
up being named Playmate of the
Month for May, 1990.
Jenkins, a junior psychology
major from Chowchilla, hasn't set
her sights quite thathigh, but when
she met with Chan earlier this
month at the Piccadilly Inn she
had a specific reason in mind.
"Ifs an opportunity," said
Jenkins, 23, in a post-shoot
interview at the Bucket. "Maybe
guys would admire me."
Jenkins has not always been
comfortable with her looks. She
said that, as a child growing up in
Chowchilla, her appearance,
which reflects her black, Irish,
Spanish and French ancestry,
presented her with difficult times
in the social arena.
The black boys" and girls
resented her and made fun of her
because she wasn't black enough,
she said.
And although the whites and
Latinos would accept her, she only
felt truly at home when her family
made its yearly return to Louisiana
come Christmas.
Despite the mixed acceptance,
Jenkins grew interested in
modeling and at 15 she spent a
summer in a six-week program.
However, she said, she'd look at
magazines and see that those in
the fashion circle didn't think a
beautiful girl looked very much
like her.
"I'd go to the store with my
mom and I'd see the magazines on
the newsstand. I wanted to see my
face on the cover of Vogue, on
Glamour. Sure I did."
She said the versions of beauty
depicted in television and
magazines discouraged her from
taking a career in modeling
seriously.
"I don't think I'm pretty. 1 think
I'm OK. I'm not ugly," she said
with a sureness and even tone that
typifies her conversation.
Pretty to her is "someone like
Heather  Locklear of  The Fall
Guy.'"
While many of the 150 "girls"
of CSUF went to the Chan session
scantily clad in bikinis and shorts,
Jenkins wore a long-sleeved plaid
shirt and bluejeans.
"I'm assured about my campus
life, my career, what I want to do
with my life," she said. "But my
looks? No."
During her session with Chan,
she was asked to fill out a
biography and interview form. She
was asked her measurements,
major, age, etc. She was also asked
if she'd consent to pose nude, semi-
nude or clothed.
Jenkins marked "clothed" and
"semi-nude."
"But I'd pose nude if thaf s what
it took" to be depicted in Playboy,
she said. "1 could warm up to it
just like anything else.
"I would if it came to it, but I'd
like to avoid it if I could."
Jenkins thinks she could stand
to lose a few pounds. Shccalls her
physical dimensions — 5-foot-9,
138 pounds —"mesomorphic."
"I could stand to lose 10 pounds,
but not 20."
Chan said Jenkins' weight is no
major issue.
"We're shooting a girl not as a
Playmate. You find one way to
photograph them," he said. "Even
if a girl is overweight we could
find a way to make her appear not
so heavy."
In their session, Chan shot three
Polaroidsof Jenkins,slipped them
into a manila envelope and
marked it with her name. It
returned with him to Chicago,
where he will review it with
Playboy editors.
In a few weeks he'll return to
Fresno and shoot the girl s selected
as finalists.
Approximately 150 girls
interviewed with Chan.
"We don't have to tap people
on the shoulder and say, 'Hey you
should be in Playboy,'" Chan said.
"They came to us."
Jenkins came to Chan, she said,
because she, "likes to shock
people."
Also, her boyfriend wanted her
to do it. Jenkins hasn't told her
family because she doesn't want
to get her hopes up.
"I don't want to become
obsessed with it and find out I'm
not their type," she said.
And if Playboy gives her a call
in the coming weeks?
"At that point I would take it
seriously," she said. "If I'mchosen,
yeah, I'm sure I'll live up to it."
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Horse unit's success depends on artificial insemination
DONNA PENNINGTON
STAFF WIOTER
A new colt arrived at the CSUF horse
unit last month, and Mother Nature had
some help from modern technology in
her making.
For over 15 years the CSUF horse unit
has been successful in artificially
inseminating mares. "We would matean
average of 25 mares per season, and
sometimes that number would go up to
40," said Hyle Davis, head livestock
technician of the CSUF horse unit. "So I
really couldn't give you a precise count of
the number of colts born here."
The process was adopted by the school
for the safety and protectionof theirmares.
and has a 90 percent or better pregnancy
success rate, he said.
Davis oversees the process and believes
that artificially inseminating the mares is
the best and safest way to achieve
reproductive success.
"I started artificially inseminating ma res
about my second year here. That was
about 19 years ago," said Davis. Medical
technology has changed for horses just as
it has for humans, he said.
Although artificial insemination may
seem unnatural, natural reproduction
with horses in a confined area such as the
CSUF unit could have irreparable
damage, he said.
Such problems would include: rejection
of the stud by the mare, various infections
and physical damage to the horses
themselves.
The act of fornication in horses is a very
violent act and many mares as well as
studs are hurt in the process, Davis said.
Although the mares will be in heat, most
mares do not want to be mounted. "I
don't know why, but I've seen it happen
over and over again," said Davis.
Davis said another possible problem is
that a stud can hurt his legs when
mounting a mare. During the
insemination process, a stud is brought
into the barn. His legs are wrapped thick
with bandages so he will not hurt himself
while mounting the "fake mare."
It is a very rough and violent process.
The horse mounts the "fake mare" and
wraps his two front legsaround the mare's
back. "That is why we wrap his legs,''
said Davis. He might squeeze so hard
that he will cut his legs on the "fake
mare."
Besides the physical problcmsin natural
reproduction with horses, disease plays a
major role in why CSUF uses the artificial
insemination process.
Davis said that horses can contract
common sexually transmitted diseases.
"I guess you could call it a kind of horse's
V.D. he said. In artificial insemination,
thereis very littleornochanceof infection
being passed to each of the horses.
In natural reproduction, if a mare is
infected with some sort of bacteria, the
stud that mounts her is now infected with
that same bacteria and will pass it to all of
the mares he comes in contact with, Davis
explained, lt is very important for
everything to be sterilized and clean begin,
the tails of the mares are wrapped in
plastic bags to keep the hair away from
their backsides. The mares are then
washed wi th Betadine surgical scrub and
warm water to insure a clean entry for the
tubes.
The mare is placed in a stock with both
the back and the front door shut. The
height of the door protects the mare from
the stud wanting to mount her rather
than the "fake mare."
She is only in the bam for her scent, he
said. "We usually put one in there to
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