Cambridge students strip to bikinis for student newspaper
The feature that has outraged some of the Cambridge top brass has made the online version of ‘The Tab‘ an instant hit. The section which features skimpily clad students is called Tab Totty.
An epitome of geeky talent and spectacled bookworms has just got some taste of explicit spice. The students of the ‘one of the top education institutions in the world’ have added a new section to their monthly print and online magazine which features students (girls) in skimpy outfits and revealing bikinis.
The feature that has outraged some of the Cambridge top brass has made the online version of ‘The Tab’ an instant hit. The section which features skimpily clad students is called Tab Totty.
This month, the student who featured in a Bikini admitted that she was wary of her father’s reaction to the photo shoot, but did it because she wants to break the ‘boring’ image that Cambridge students are usually identified with.
“Cambridge used to have this preconception that you can’t be both smart and beautiful but the Tab’s kind of smashing that. It’s not like I’m naked, it’s just a bit of fun. I was worried that I’d be really nervous but it was actually really casual. No pressure,” Brittany, the student model was quoted by a news website.
[Heidi as featured on the Tab website]
Student models who appeared earlier in the section were seen wearing boxing gloves, provoking criticism that the photographs demean women. The Tab was launched in May 2009 as the university celebrated its 800th anniversary.
Its controversial section has a blonde student, Becky Adams, standing in a pink bikini and high heels, a brunette English graduate from Downing College called Heidi dressed in a kickboxer outfit, and Emmalina Thompsell, from Gonville and Caius pictured in a bikini on her college lawn.
Cambridge Student Union women’s officer Natalie Szarek has reportedly called for the editorial team to remove the photos, saying: ‘Tab Totty plays into the idea of women as sexual objects.’
bron: www.merinews.com, www.hln.be, www.dailymail.co.uk
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