I was wandering around the website of the college paper I edited in 1973, The Tech. To say things have come a long way would be an understatement. While I would have loved to run the advice column Various Stages Of Undress, it took until 2010 for my old newspaper to get up the nerve to run explicit sex advice. One of these columns made me proud of myself.
Also check out the more wide-ranging Auntie Matter, from 2018.
I have to disagree. This column from 10 years ago is pornography and exhibitionism masquerading as "advice." I would have been embarrassed to run this in The Tech (not that I would have), as apparently was the author, who declined to put her name on it.
I'm far from a prude (regular attendee at RegDay films and a member of Dean McBay's PornCom, appointed by the UA on a platform of "show 'em all"). But when I was EIC of The Tech, I wanted to put out a newspaper that any student could show his or her parents, and I would not have wanted my name, or anyone's on the mast, associated with this kind of anonymous crud. I made my share of mistakes (particularly my love of bad-taste puns in News Round-Up), but I didn't run obscenities, pornography or tabloid-esque shock news.
Posted by: Robert E. Malchman | August 31, 2020 at 08:01 AM