Playboy October 2001

COVER STORY
THREE CHEERS FOR THE GIRLS OF THE SEC: Playmates Julia Schultz (right) and Nicole Lenz (left) join Miss October, Stephanie Heinrich (center), as she leads a cheer for PLAYBOY'S Girls of the Southeastern Conference. Photographer and digital artist Mark Frazier worked his magic for our special college cover. Our Rabbit gets a kick hanging out with the girls.

FEATURES
84 COLLEGE SPORTS IN CRISIS
School competition has become a cthroat business in which the victims are often the star players, who graduate without an education. Now athletics are teaming with unions and outraged teachers to demand reform. BY ERIN ZAMMETT
98 CLASS ACTION
Nobody said being an undergraduate was easy. We offer key tools for survival, including your own DJ kit and a 21st century hangover helper. BY JASON BUHRMESTER
101 PLAYBOY'S PIGSKIN PREVIEW
It's been 45 years since we started picking winners—college teams and Playboy's All-Americas. Once again we dare to compare. Our football insight is legendary. BY GARY COLE
120 THE FOUR-YEAR ROAD TRIP
You've probably never heard of the Nadas, but they're huge on the college circuit. Our reporter hung out in their girl-packed RV. BY ALISON LUNDGREN
124 BACK TO CAMPUS FASHION
Ah, the challenge of looking sharp and being comfortable. Have we got great news for you. Plus, these clothes don't require your dad's credit card. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS
131 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: ULRIKA ERICSSON
She likes older men, risky places and lights on. Line forms this way, gentlemen.
134 20Q MARG HELGENBERGER
As the star of TV's CSI, Marg lights our Bunsen burner every week. In an investigative 20Q, she talks about knockers, Julia Roberts and sex scenes. BY ROBERT CRANE
150 BUZZ FROM ABROAD
There are 5000 foreign study programs. None tell you where to drink absinthe, find underground raves or meet topless babes. We do.

FICTION
94 FISHBOY
In our annual College Fiction Contest's winning story, a teenage crush on the cute `girl in class sends this dude to the bottom of the tank. It's a love story more twisted
than an eel in a blender. BY MATT MCINTOSH

INTERVIEW
71 THE WEST WING
Rarely does a TV show create such intense buzz—or influence the nation's politics. Hist Wing did that and more, grabbing 17 million viewers and a record number of Emmys. To get the dirt on their White House, PLAYBOY sat down with the show's very smart creator and eight cast members, including Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe and Allison Janney. BY DAVID SHEFF

PICTORIALS
90 RAPID RIOS
Leilani Rios was kicked off her college track team for stripping. We're happy to train with her—nude.
106 PLAYMATE: STEPHANIE HEINRICH
Miss October dreams of becoming a detective. Hef, meanwhile, is the sleuth when it conies to beauty.
132 ELVIRA'S NIGHT MOVES
The Mistress of the Dark is our idea of a Halloween pinup. This trick's a treat. ART BY OLIVIA DE BERARDINIS
138 GIRLS OF THE SEC Nobody struts their stuff like these spirited coeds from the sultry South.

NOTES AND NEWS
19 WORLD OF PLAYBOY
A Cannes cake, Hef and Liz, our big book party.
20 HEF'S EUROPEAN ADVENTURE
Cannes, Milan and London—and, of course, seven girlfriends.
22 HEF IN EUROPE: PART TWO
The party continues with Germany's PMOY and British MTV
61 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
A nation of snoops, invasions of privacy.
179 PLAYMATE NEWS
Little E's favorite Playmate, MM's birthday tribute.

DEPARTMENTS
7 PLAYBILL
27 DEAR PLAYBOY
31 AFTER HOURS
46 WIRED
48 LIVING ONLINE
52 MEN
55 MANTRACK
59 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
118 PARTY JOKES
164 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY
183 ON THE SCENE
184 GRAPEVINE
186 POTPOURRI

REVIEWS
38 MOVIES
A teen Othello, Swedish peace and love, Barbet Schroeder in Colombia.
42 VIDEO
Fuel adventure, the greatest American movie on DVD, director John Sayles.
44 MUSIC
Yardbirds boxed, Nick Lowe, Keb' Mo'.
50 BOOKS
Life and Def Kinky Friedman on Texas etiquette.