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This article details the events, individuals, and issues connected with the start of "Sex on Tuesday," the first and longest-running college newspaper sex column nationwide, which was (and continues to be) published in The Daily Californian, the independent student newspaper at the University of California. Utilizing an examination of the first semester's sixteen columns and interviews with editors of the paper as well as the first columnist, the study shows that the staff's chief legacy was its recognition of, and courage to act upon, the students' interest in sex even though some readers were alienated. The column is significant for pioneering content that continues to reverberate in academic, journalistic, and larger societal pools, existing over the past decade as one of the most publicized, electrifying, and divisive phenomena in student journalism at the higher education level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
