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...campus—and perhaps beyond Harvard—for Diamond. H Bomb has published off and on since 2004, and it would be naïve to argue that porn does not exist in campus dorms. Students’ uneasiness, therefore, stems from the way in which content is being solicited and its inconsistency with the magazine’s purported mission: “class, prestige, and style...
...meantime, longevity isn’t a primary concern. Publications like Tract Magazine are kept alive today by readers and contributors who are drawn to them because of the specificity and diversity of their content. Their goal isn’t to outlast their more prestigious predecessors; it’s to fill what many current editors-in-chief call “holes” in the campus media coverage...
...This is not to say that content and interests between underdog magazines and the Big Three do not occasionally overlap. The Advocate, for example, is only one of four different on-campus publications to which aspiring writers or poets may submit. Tuesday Magazine, along with the Gamut, an annual poetry journal, distinguishes itself with an effort at diversity...
...Harvard Book Review (HBR), currently in its ninth year, may occasionally have overlapping content with The Crimson or The Advocate. However, the HBR was not strictly established as a forum for literary criticism but also as a community for writers. “One thing we try to foster is a wide variety of styles,” says Marta M. Figlerowitz ’09, the former fiction editor of The Advocate and current HBR editor-in-chief. “We are aiming towards something that can be read leisurely but that isn’t too compressed...
...Though interested readers may find similarities between the content covered in various underdog magazines and what appears in the pages of the Big Three, those looking to contribute to the publications are quick to discover a striking contrast between the two spheres. The abandonment of the “comp,” or requisite trial period for prospective members, presents a notable distinction...