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When the Committee on College Life (CCL) approved H Bomb last week, the proposed magazine made national headlines, and it wasn’t for the articles. The new student publication would address issues of sexuality on campus, but after the CCL signed on, the real attention-getter was the proposal to include nude photographs of undergraduates in its pages. Since then, the committee has announced that it will reconsider H Bomb’s status as an official campus publication, and, reversing its initial decision to let the magazine apply for grants, it has stated that the College will...
Despite concerns that H Bomb will be pornographic, the magazine that was pitched to the CCL will compliment other College publications nicely, providing undergraduates a forum to vent on issues of sex and sexuality on campus. The magazine’s editors, Camilla A. Hrdy ’04-’05 and Katharina Cieplak-Von Baldegg ’06, as well as its faculty advisor, Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser, further emphasized that although the magazine would contain some nudity, it would not be the focus of the magazine, and it would not be pornographic. Rather...
...Bomb’s editors also have a model in mind—Squirm, a Vassar College publication that features nude photographs and also addresses issues of student sexuality. Indeed, the CCL initially agreed to endorse the new magazine after examining a copy of Squirm, which convinced them that H Bomb would not just be porn...
...seems as though H Bomb will go unrecognized and unfunded. And, though we cannot be sure that the CCL gave up on H Bomb because of national media attention, it is likely that such pressures played an important role in the committee’s decision to backpedal. The CCL should reconsider its decision without fear of embarrassing Harvard in the national press and judge the publication on the benefits it will have for undergraduate life at Harvard. We believe that if it does, the CCL will support H Bomb once again...
...statement also said that Baldegg and Hrdy did not present their magazine to CCL as pornographic...