 In 1967 she was the first American college girl to appear nude in a campus magazine, the Stanford Chaparral ("Stanford Chaparral", Spring 1967).In 1968 she began working at night as a topless dancer under the stage name Vicky Drake, and ran for student body president with a campaign poster that was a photo of herself posing nude on the Stanford Mausoleum ("Stanford Alumni Magazine", September/October 1994).This story was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 1968, then carried by wire services Associated Press and United Press International and published in newspapers worldwide.