From NYU Newspaper
The University of California-Berkley’s student newspaper — The Daily Californian — has published a weekly column known as “Sex on Tuesdays” since September 1997. The column, typically penned by a new student each year, deals openly with sex and health advice relevant to students. And almost since its inception, the column has been wildly popular among both student readers and outsiders, Daily Californian Editor Rong-Gong Lin II said.

But according to a number of major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Associated Press, the era of college newspaper sex columnists is now. In the past four months, three major articles and numerous broadcast stories have covered collegiate sex writers, portraying their work as controversial, buzz-worthy and part of a growing campus trend.

While the student editors and writers at the center of the story do not mind the attention, the mainstream media’s sudden interest in the college sex column has them slightly baffled.

“I’m kind of surprised that they are seeing this as a completely new thing,” Lin told Media Reader. “It seems to be that The Chronicle of Higher Ed ran a story on this, and then everybody else jumped on it.”