The hallowed halls of Harvard won’t be the setting for any of the nude photos that will be carried in H-Bomb, but every nude photograph in the erotic bi-annual magazine will be of a Harvard student. A student over the age of eighteen, of course.
The “H-Bomb” is a phrase used to describe the way some Harvard alumni, primarily male, try to use their educational pedigree to woo the opposite sex.
The Crimson Daily, Harvard’s official newspaper, reported today that the H-Bomb was approved by the Committee on College Life (CCL), a committee that includes students, faculty and administrators.
Fourteen members of the CCL voted in favor of the student-run magazine, two members abstained.
That makes the H-Bomb an official Harvard publication, though it does not mean that Harvard endorses the views that the magazine will contain nor does it mean that the H-Bomb will receive grants as many other student publications do. It just means that H-Bomb is an official Harvard publication.
And that means a lot. Harvard is the alma mater of no less than seven Presidents of the United States, including President George W. Bush, who graduated from Harvard Business School.
The magazine was proposed by two female students, Katharina Baldegg and Camilla Hrdy last December. The first issue should be out in May.
“It’s a sex magazine that will hopefully be run by students of all sexual orientations and backgrounds,” Baldegg told the Crimson Daily. The magazine will also include art and fiction.
The faculty advisor for the magazine will be Harvard Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser, who teaches a class called “Evolution of Human Nature,” that the Crimson Daily says has been nicknamed “Sex,” by students.
Squirm, a Vassar College erotica magazine, was suggested as an example of what H-Bomb will be like.
President George W. Bush has not made a statement regarding the magazine.
