Calli Cox
EIU Hall of Fame What do you do with an elementary education degree from EIU? Why, porn of course!

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Calli Cox: THE INTERVIEW
Calli talks to the EIU Hall of Fame about her life at Eastern.

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More Eastern students have had a beer in his name than any other person in history.

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Baseball star who swings for Jesus.

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Stripper, porn star and member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority, Calli Cox has become a sex symbol for Eastern Illinois University. The elementary education major, Southern Illinois native and 1999 graduate of EIU has made her way into campus history as the first known bona fide porn star to attend school there.

Porn stars do a lot of lying, but there seems to be significant evidence that Calli went to Eastern Illinois University. Several online biographies reference Calli’s time at EIU.

And further interviews with Calli corroborate her elementary education background.

“I taught 8th grade English and reading back in Illinois,” Calli said in an interview at Rogreviews.com

What’s more, her connection to Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority seems a strong lock – she has a Tri-Sigma tattoo on her right butt cheek (left).

Following in the tradition of EIU stars like Burl Ives, Joan Allen and John Malkovich, Calli’s career is already laden with accomplishments. In her first year, she was nominated as Best New Starlet in the 2002 Adult Video News Awards and was also nominated for a sex scene. She won the best newcomer in 2002 from Adult Stars Magazine.

In 2003, Calli is up for Adult Performer of the Year from Adult Video News.

The EIU Hall of Fame can’t in good conscience list many of her movies’ titles, but some of the printable ones include Varsity Cheerleader Sorority 3, 18 and Lost in New York, and Fast Times at Deep Crack High Vol. 3.

She has starred with such well-known stars as Flick Shagwell, Kylie Kurves and Dale Dabone.

Perhaps more interesting than her co-stars names are allusions Calli has given in interviews to her sex life at Eastern. According to an interview she said she didn’t consider herself sexual until 18 or 19 – when she would have been on campus.

She also says she accepted her bisexuality while on campus.

“I have been curious about girls as far back as I can remember,” she said. “I finally let myself try it and think about it as being ok when I was 21.”

She also claims to have gotten into porn while at EIU. During her senior year Calli is said to have entered an amateur stripping contest at the Diamond Cabaret in East St. Louis. She continued doing amateur nights at clubs, which is when her first experience with a woman takes place.

Putting her degree to use, she continued stripping during the summer after graduation and into her first year as a teacher.

She later connected with the adult entertainment industry during a cameo on Playboy TV. Her first scene was in an “oral consumption” video with a man and woman, Belladonna and Mr. Marcus.

Calli’s not all body and no brains. She has a social conscience to her. Some porn stars claim that interracial scenes hurt their career, but when it comes to sex, Calli is colorblind.

“I’ve had people tell me that, but I can’t alter what I believe for the slight chance that it could hurt my feature dancing career. Interracial shouldn’t be a choice like anything else. If you’re going to do girls, you do girls. If you’re going to do guys, you do guys. Period.”

That's the kind of social activism that comes from attending EIU!

Sources for information and some photos: RogReviews, Pornstar Empire and Adult Video News.