E&P: Uproar Over Sex Column In Mississippi College Newspaper

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Uproar Over Sex Column in Mississippi College Newspaper

Published: October 05, 2006 10:55 AM ET

HATTIESBURG, Miss. University of Southern Mississippi President Shelby Thames is criticizing a sex column in the university's student newspaper, but the editors of The Student Printz say it will continue to carry the articles.

Pillow Talk has appeared in The Student Printz since Sept. 7, Executive Editor David McRaney said.

"We had decided early in the semester we were going to do a sex column, based on the idea that many college newspapers already do this," McRaney said. "The more modern and more respectable colleges all do this. Yale, Harvard, Emory, Berkeley, Cornell - all the college newspapers we're trying to aspire to."

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In the column's debut, writer Glory Fink discusses sexual experimentation, focusing mainly on the use of various foodstuffs to enhance the sex act.

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In the letter to the paper's editors, published Sept. 19, Thames wrote: "I vigorously oppose the printing of the Pillow Talk column in the past two issues of The Student Printz and characterize the content as offensive to the quality and respectability of our student body and institution." Thames called on the newspaper to "uphold high standards of responsibility" and to "support the mission and values of the University..."

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[Buzz Clik]

1. we should reprint the column here.

The only thing better than sex is better sex.

[Ian David]

2. With so many kids in Mississippi starving under the Bush economy...

they're going to use food to have sex?

I hope they donate it to the poor when they're done with it.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Noooooooooo! AAAaaaaaarrrrrgggghh! The Horror!

You mean COLLEGE students are HAVING SEX? And they're NOT MARRIED!??!?!?!



NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!