22 Wednesday, December 5 2012
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THE NEW PAPER
News
Student writes about sex romps in US uni:
Campus
library best
place for sex
BARING
IT ALL:
Student Nadia
Cho, who wrote
the piece.
PICTURE: TWITTER
S
TUDENTS at University of California,
Berkeley, who picked up the latest issue
of the campus newspaper were given
an unusual tip.
Miss Nadia Cho, a student there and a
columnist for newspaper The Daily Californian wrote about the best place to have sex in
the campus – in the library near the religion
section.
Her column was in reaction to an article,
which appeared early this year in the newspaper, about whether having sex on campus
was actually “doable”, US news portal The
Huffington Post reported.
The earlier article asked: “How actually
feasible and enjoyable is it to xxxx on campus?”
Miss Cho’s response last week was: “Yes –
having sex on campus is actually very doable,
and it’s lots of fun.
“It’s also surprisingly easy.”
She went on to write about how she and
an unidentified male student started their
romp in the library, Main Stacks, the day
before Thanksgiving, when the campus was
“marvellously empty”.
She wrote that some students were in the
library when they were at it and that more
than one student walked by them in mid-act,
Daily Mail reported, quoting her column.
“For a place to have loud sex,” she suggested the ground floor of a building named Moffitt, where she went next.
After Moffitt, she and her partner then
engaged in sex at another campus building
named Wurster.
Criminal offence
Her column kicked off a debate, with
some saying that she had violated a section of
California’s penal code which states that “exposing his person, or the private parts thereof,
in any public place... is guilty of a misdemeanour”.
Miss Stephanie Baer, editor-in-chief of the
newspaper, said while this particular column
did get a lot of page views, it was not “unusual” to see it go viral.
“We’re glad to see that so many people
find it interesting,” she told Huffington Post
in an e-mail.
She said she chose to run the column
because she thought it would be a topic the
readers would enjoy, especially since they
had published similar pieces in the past.
“It was within Nadia’s free speech rights to
share her experiences.”
A university spokesman said: “The Daily
Cal is not an official university newspaper, it
is a student-run, public newspaper and they
do not have our backing.
“We have known about that column for a
long time, but there is nothing we can do
about it.
“The students have a right to free speech.”
The Daily Californian has a history of publishing controversial editorials. In some cases,
issues containing brash statements have led
to newspaper theft – a form of censorship
where free newspapers are stolen in bulk to
cut down on readership.