Ivy Skin
More high-brow nudies at Harvard. Crimson:
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but if Matthew M. Di Pasquale ’08 gets his way, they’ll soon be a frustrated Harvard boy’s best friend too.
The Dunster House senior plans to publish nude photographs of Harvard co-eds in a new campus magazine, to be called “Diamond.” The plans for the magazine haven’t been fully fleshed out, but Di Pasquale said he hopes to discharge his first issue this spring.
Di Pasquale has created a Web site for the magazine, and he has solicited prospective Harvard models through the Dunster House e-mail list. He has also sent information to friends at the University of Pennsylvania. So far he has recruited one model.
As for how he’ll make money off the student body, Di Pasquale said he has financial backing, but he declined to reveal the source.
Di Pasquale said he conceived the idea of Diamond about two weeks ago. His inspiration was simple: “I love women,” he said.
They’re wicked smaht at Hahvahd, so there must be money in this. Or maybe it’s about aht. Like H-Bomb:
If published, Diamond would not be the campus’s sole sex magazine. H Bomb, which is officially recognized by the College, was founded in 2004 and has been published periodically since then.
Michelle E. Crentsil ‘10, an editor of H Bomb, said she supports Di Pasquale’s efforts.
“I think artistic magazines involving the way people think about their bodies is always a great thing,” Crentsil said.
Nope, not aht:
But Diamond will inhabit a different niche than H Bomb, with its artistic focus, according to Di Pasquale. Diamond will be more mainstream—”more Hollywood”—à la Maxim or Playboy, he said. Diamond will feature nude female models and possibly shirtless males, but not explicit sex acts, he said.
OK. Aht? Smaht? You be the judge, you pervs. H-Bomb website here. It would appear to be all about the issues, so if you’re the kind of person who reads Playboy for the articles, it’s your site. A couple of past covers:
I say!
Well, there’s a couple of issues for you.
Here’s Editor Crentsil enjoying her 15 minutes of NYT attention last year.
Big college trend. BOINK came out of Boston University. NYT paws the issue here, interviewing Crentsil and BOINK editor Alecia Oleyourryk.
I’m still looking for Di Pasquale’s site, but so far so good on the young brainiac’s Hef impersonation according to this site. Here’s the lad with the Girls Next Dorm:
He’s looking smahtah already. Here’s his pitch to the ladies:
From: Matthew Di Pasquale
Date: Feb 2, 2008 11:27 AM
Subject: [MOOSE] Calling All Hot Harvard GirlsWould you like to star in a brand-new magazine?
Do you consider yourself unique and one of a kind?
Are you not afraid to get naked in front of the camera?
A small group of Harvard students are starting a magazine called Diamond.
Our mission is simple: Class, Prestige, and Style.We are looking for the Sexiest, Most-Confident & Interesting Harvard girls to
star in our first issue.
You must be comfortable being interviewed and posing nude and semi-clothed for
photos and video.
And you must be able to prove that you are at least 18 years old.If you have what it takes to be a Diamond model, then send the following to
diamondeditor@gmail.com1. Recent nude or clothed pictures of yourself, showing a variety of poses,
including full-figure and face shots.
2. Age, height, weight, measurements, year, concentration, extracurriculars,
awards and hobbies. Please include a brief bio as well.We look forward to seeing you in the pages of Diamond magazine.
Sincerely,
Diamond Model Search
Topics: academia, sex, shameless opportunism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 6:43 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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February 6th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
And again we learn, there’s nothing new under the sun.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Well, when I attended Yale in the early Triassic, we only dreamed about such enterprises.
But our command of the Queen’s English was arguably better:
>>Michelle E. Crentsil ‘10, an editor of H Bomb, said she supports Di Pasquale’s >>efforts.
>>“I think artistic magazines involving the way people think about their bodies is >>[sic] always a great thing,” Crentsil said.
Diagram that sentence, Michelle!
Nah, I’m just bitter!
Jamie Irons
February 6th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Sorry, the lack of a preview function frustrated my efforts to set apart the quoted lines, which should have read:
Michelle E. Crentsil ‘10, an editor of H Bomb, said she supports Di Pasquale’s efforts.
“I think artistic magazines involving the way people think about their bodies is [sic] always a great thing,” Crentsil said.
Jamie Irons
February 7th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Is this for real? Di Pasquale is surely a pseudonym based on the ‘Sal di Pasquale’ character that Eugene Levy played in the 1983 film “Going Berserk,” starring John Candy. In the movie, Di Pasquale is a sleazy small time film maker whom Candy has shoot the video at his wedding. Di Pasquale films the ladies going into the church from under the stairs shouting “Don’t look at the camera” as they look down curiously at him.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
It’s good to see the intellectual caliber of one of the premier universities hasn’t changed. We have so many pressing issues, and so little nudity.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:55 am
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