Playboy can't woo Rice girls

Ken Hoffman reports that Playboy struck out with Rice University girls for the Girls of Conference USA pictorial:

"There are many reasons we didn't get a lot of girls from Rice," said Mizuno. "Rice is a very small school (3,000 undergraduates), and it's got very high academics. Most Rice women are career-oriented, and very few have modeling on their list."

Playboy won't say how many Rice women showed up for an interview and test photos. But as the final day of auditions wound down, only a handful of candidates had come to a Greenway Plaza hotel to meet with Playboy. Five would be a good guess.

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