<p>CAS steps best place in Boston to find all-American girls
Lisa Davis
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In the April issue of Gentleman’s Quarterly Magazine, Boston University - specifically, the steps of the Tsai Center - was named the best place in Boston to meet beautiful, all-American girls.</p>
<p>According to the magazine article “The Field Guide to American Women,” GQ asked “regional experts” to choose the best place in their city to find the most attractive women “with one condition: their choices couldn’t be a bar, a restaurant or Bruce Willis’s apartment.”</p>
<p>“It’s a good thing to have going for us,” College of Engineering sophomore Blair Krenitsky said. “If you hear ‘BU,’ most people think of hockey, but most people don’t think beyond that.”</p>
<p>CAS sophomore Erin Burke said she is hoping this new title will “attract some cute boys.”</p>
<p>“It’s flattering to think of all the spots in Boston that it’s on our campus,” she said.</p>
<p>GQ publicist Lauren Starke, a 2000 CAS graduate, was the “regional expert” who selected the stairs as the best place in Boston to meet women. Starke said the idea for this location was inspired by a joke that she and her friends had regarding the growing number of female students by their senior year.</p>
<p>“Every year there was a higher and higher percentage of women,” she said. “BU always had a reputation for having the best-looking women.”</p>
<p>There is already a success story for one BU undergraduate-CAS senior Ashley Hill actually met her boyfriend on the now-famous steps.</p>
<p>“I think I’m the all-American girl, like in the movie Sweet Home Alabama,” the southern native said. “The average American boy would be my boyfriend.”</p>
<p>While Starke said the theme of the article was finding beautiful women with spirit, students at BU have many different interpretations of the “all-American girl.” Students said an all-American girl would be outgoing, attractive and goal-oriented. However, some students said they have a negative idea of what it means to be all-American.</p>
<p>“I don’t think the title exists anymore,” College of Communication sophomore Shana Guzick said. “When I think of that, I think of a blonde girl studying in a poodle skirt.”</p>
<p>College of Fine Arts freshman Naomi Abel said the stereotype of all-American has changed over the years.</p>
<p>“It’s a stereotypical thing,” she said, “blonde hair, blue eyes, girl next door.”</p>
<p>Although most students said the majority of people who hang out on the stairs are female, some students gave their own suggestions for better places on campus to meet the all-American girl, including Agganis Arena, the BU Beach, the George Sherman Union and Marsh Chapel. Some students were even surprised that GQ did not pick Boston College as their location.</p>
<p>“Maybe these stairs are a little too pretentious for the all-American image,” CAS sophomore Sanja Muranovic said. “BU is more open-minded than I would consider the all-American guy or girl to be.”
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