ISU student finds Cosmo appearance leads to calls

An Iowa State University mechanical engineering student has suddenly found himself with more offers for a date than he could possibly accept. 21-year-old Matt Hinders was featured last month in Cosmopolitan as one of America’s most-eligible hunks, and his picture and bio were accompanied by an email address, set up by the magazine. He’s been getting plenty of email from women all over the country, telling him he looks great and asking him out — and some interested parties are even calling him in the middle of the night. Hinders lives with his parents in Ames and says they’re not thrilled by the nocturnal attention. He’d made a friendly wager with a buddy that he wouldn’t get any responses from the magazine appearance. He admits he was naive for making the ten-dollar bet that he wouldn’t get any more than ten email messages — as he’s since lost track at well over one-hundred. Hinders says he doesn’t want to be a model. He hopes to combine his I-S-U engineering education with a love of sports and design all-terrain vehicles and Jet Skis. Hinders says the topless photo shoot to show off his six-pack abs was just a fluke and he’s enjoying the fame while it lasts. He says he’s gotten no modeling offers from the appearance in three-million editions of Cosmo, which he says is fine. “I’m very sure that my career is only going to go into engineering. I don’t think I’m going to make any money off how I look. It’s all going to be with my brain.”