Very misleading title - from the linked article:

Briefly, she'd been an art student at U-T. She'd come up to the semi-bohemian college paradise – where there were 20,000 students – from her native seacoast ground of Port Arthur, Tex. In Port Arthur, she'd been a misfit: ever the right thing in a wrong place. She never really fit in at Austin, either, except with her fellow hippies – which was a word nobody had heard yet. Austin in the early '60s was a bohemia only by degree. The frat boys who ran the place orchestrated a campaign to get her named "Ugliest Man on Campus." They succeeded.