http://thecrimson.com/today/article357342.htmlAfter flipping through the pages of Squirm, a Vassar College erotica magazine, the Committee on College Life (CCL) voted to approve a student-run magazine that will feature nude pictures of Harvard undergraduates and articles about sexual issues at its meeting yesterday.
Fourteen members of the CCL approved H Bomb—a magazine that will be similar to the Vassar publication—as an official Harvard publication. Two members abstained.
Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin, a CCL member, said he consulted University General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano ’83, the University news office and University spokesperson Robert P. Mitchell before the decision.
“I needed to see if there were liability issues,” McLoughlin said.
In order to avoid liability, students will not be able to take nude pictures inside of Harvard buildings, according to McLoughlin.
He also said that although approved, the magazine will not necessarily be funded by the College.
“They will still have to go through the granting application process.
gives them the ability to apply for grants but nothing else,” he said, adding that “just to get a publication off and running is about $6,000.”