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NIKKI SABELLA ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Ns722@CABRINI.EDU

Sex is now available in college newspapers. Well, not quite. The College of William and Mary, located in Williamsburg, Va., started its first sex column in 2002 and ever since has been gaining national awareness for some of the more risque articles.

Katie Prengaman, a junior biology and environmental science major, has been the "Behind Closed Doors" columnist for the past two-and-a-half years and has acquired a rise of attention from the position.

"I have always had some topics that were judged to be more scandalous than others, in particular, columns on masturbation, bondage, and yes, this one on balls," Prengaman said, referring to April's issue column headlined "Balls: lick em?, love em?" that discussed not only the iplportance of not neglecting the genitalia, but also some information about the female G-spot and a section about the relationship between sex and food, making sure to write for the male and female audiences.

The Flat Hat student newspaper is a weekly paper completely student-run. "Most of our coverage is catered toward students. However, we do print for the entire campus and community, so in that sense we are not totally student-focused," Stephen Carley, the Flat Hat editor, said. Writing for the Flat Hat does not pay off with course credits and is not censored by editors. Prengaman mentioned that the editors set certain guidelines and those guidelines have not been skewed since.

The Carrie Bradshaw columnist fad has caught on to many more schools other than The College of William and Mary. The "Wednesday Hump" is a sex column for the University of California. Emory University also has a sex column called "Mouth to Mouth." "Love Bites" is another column at Swarthmore College. A few more schools including Cornell and Yale have joined the list.

Some students that write for a college newspaper, which had or has a sex column, are feeling tom about the topic. According to the Associated Press' student press forum, the students were not sure if having a sex column would attract more readers or would not be worth all the trouble from the controversy. "Do you want to be known as a great source of information on campus, or as constantly bordering on being offensive?" Rob Velella of Washington and Jefferson College said.

In Emily Vitrano's case, she felt the column was offensive. "I don't usually read it, because most of the time it's really just gross or pointless," Vitrano, a