Stripping For College Tuition: Area Strip Clubs Recruit College Students In UC Berkeley's Newspaper During Sex Week Issue
ByWhere students see debt in rising tuition costs, strips clubs attempting to cash in on the stripping-to-pay-for-college cliché see opportunity. A stable of clubs in California are, at least.
According to the Huffington Post, an ad appeared Friday in the Daily Californian, UC Berkeley's student-run newspaper, seeking college students for six strip clubs in the San Francisco area.
"Are you fun, flirty and a little adventurous?" the full-page ad read. "Then we are interested in meeting you! You don't need experience. Make your own schedule. Great money to be made -- in CASH. Professional management teams are in place at these SF locations to help you achieve your financial goals while in school."
As is typical (and perhaps slightly hypocritical) of such ads, this one didn't actually describe the position, which is stripping and dancing exotically for money. Even with the picture of a presumably naked woman hiding behind an umbrella, the more innocent members of Berkeley's student body likely didn't even know what the ad was describing if they didn't then look up the businesses listed at the end: Garden of Eden, Condor, Roaring 20s, Centerfolds, Little Darlings and Hungry I.
Appropriately, the ad ran during Berkeley's Sex Week issue (though, as College Fix pointed out, not in the actual issue, which was a special pullout, but in the larger newspaper).
Since the state cut the California University system's budget by $1 billion, full tuition price has risen every year from 2006 to 2011 and has since stabilized around $30,000, getting closer to the price of a private institution.
Of the ad, the Daily Fix posed the following questions to its readers:
"But what of the ad itself? No big deal - young female undergrads are adults who can make up their own minds? Or is it an example of the hypocrisy of the feminist movement, which wants men to respect women for their minds and yet has no problem with them getting naked for their money? Is it slimy and manipulative for the strip club owners to troll for new recruits on college campuses so blatantly?"
Another question that should be asked: would the paper have allowed such an ad outside of Sex Week?