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Source: The New Paper/AsiaOne
One of the best places to have sex on campus is the library, said Nadia Cho, columnist for her university's paper and student at the University of California, Berkeley.
She went on to say that having sex on campus is 'actually very doable, and it's lots of fun', in addition to being 'surprisingly easy'.
Nadia was writing for her sex column in The Daily Californian and she wanted the last column of the semester before finals to be a lighthearted one, meant for pure amusement, so she wrote about her sexcapades on campus with a male partner.
Little did she know her account on romps in the school library, and classrooms in other parts of the university would go viral. She was writing in response to an article that appeared earlier this year in the newspaper questioning the 'doable' nature of sex on campus.
Nadia wrote:
"The risk of getting caught is what makes having sex in public so exciting. Without that, there wouldn’t be any novelty in doing it. It’s fun to challenge yourself to not make any noise while having sex. 
"There were two instances in which people walked by the shelves between which my partner and I were going at it hard-core. It was like a game — having to frantically put our clothes back on and immediately pretending to be interested in the data collections of the European Union while panting and giggling hysterically."
However, her sex acts on campus might very well be a criminal offence, with some saying the undergraduate had violated a section of California's penal code which states that 'exposing his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place... is guilty of a misdemeanour'.
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By DAMIAN GHIGLIOTTY
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'Sex on campus is lots of fun and surprisingly easy': Berkeley student's controversial column for college newspaper boasting of romps in library.
- UC Berkeley student had sex on campus and wrote about it in column...
- Nadia Cho writes that she and a male student had sex in Berkeley's library and classrooms the day before Thanksgiving
The elite University of California, Berkeley has seen a blow to its uber-serious reputation with a controversial article from a student boasting about her marathon campus sex sessions.
Nadia Cho's detailed account was part of her weekly column in The Daily Californian, Berkeley’s independent, student-run newspaper.
Cho writes that she and an unnamed male student started their romp in Berkeley’s library, Main Stacks, the day before Thanksgiving, when the campus was ‘marvellously empty’.
Berkeley Student Nadia Cho's Twitter Profile reads: 'i like coffee, cats, and ice cream. and being the sex on tuesday columnist at the @dailycal :)'
But other students were in the library studying while the two performed and more than one student walked by them in mid-act, Cho writes.
She and her partner then moved into one of Berkeley’s classrooms, as she graphically describes.
‘Sex isn’t always about c****** and having orgasms. Sometimes it’s for s**** and giggles,’ she writes.
‘Having expectations and goals can ruin the fun of it. Besides, it’s probably not a good idea to ejaculate in public places - just saying. Keep this in mind should you ever attempt sex on campus.’
Not so private: The Main Stacks library at Berkeley University, where Cho says she and an unnamed male student had sex.
Not so private: The Main Stacks library at Berkeley University, where Cho says she and an unnamed male student had sex.
Cho writes that her experience was inspired by a spring 2012 column for the paper, ‘Sex on campus: actually doable?’
Her response: ‘yes - having sex on campus is actually very doable, and it’s lots of fun. It’s also surprisingly easy.’
The Daily Californian has a history of publishing controversial editorials, and in some cases issues containing brash statements have led to newspaper theft - a form of censorship where free newspapers are stolen in bulk to cut down on readership.
In 2002, former Berkeley mayor Tom Bates pleaded guilty to stealing and trashing 1,000 copies of an issue of The Daily Californian that carried an endorsement of his opponent Shirley Dean, who was mayor at the time.
Bates beat Dean two days later and took over office.
Liberal college? Berkeley University of California
After Bates’ admittance a year later, stealing free newspapers in Berkeley became punishable.
Bates paid a $100 fine for his infraction and promised to support a local ordinance against newspaper theft.
The Daily Californian published its first issue in 1871 and is one of the oldest college newspapers in the U.S. It became independent from UC Berkeley in 1971.
The paper, which is now published by the Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, has a circulation of about 10,000 and a readership of about 42,000, according to its advertising information.
A spokeswoman for the university said: 'The Daily Cal is not an official university newspaper, it is a student-run, public newspaper and they do not have our backing.
'We have known about that column for a long time but there is nothing we can do about it. The students have a right to free speech.'
Cho could not be reached about her story.
Ref:dailymail.co.uk
Comments;
British people (and by extension British students) can't "fathom or understand" that sex is a natural part of College? Is that a serious comment? If so, all I can do is laugh. Someone needs to visit Britain before making such sweeping statements. Maybe we're just a bit classier and don't "fathom or understand" the need to broadcast our conquests in a newspaper collumn.
I cannot believe that someone in the ENGLAND of all places is writing criticism about a university that the country knows nothing about. I happened to have grown up all my life literally a BLOCK away from UC Berkeley, so I can firmly say that this will NOT ruin Cal's reputation. Berkeley has withstood and has been a center for openness and advocacy and that's part of what makes Berkeley what it is.It's part of the school's history and identity.Sex is a natural part of any American college student's life, something that I think British people will never understand or can fathom. Cal might be state school, and it isn't "elite" perhaps in the sense that many of you British folks might think, but it is highly respectable, and has many outspoken students. The image of Cal (or even the student who wrote the column) will not be destroyed because of what she published. Shame on all you people thousands of miles away in a country across the Atlantic Ocean for demeaning Americans as "stupid".
what a wonderful girl. and what stupid reporting from the dm. berkley is not 'elite' it is a STATE university. it is not ivy league. while of a high academic standard, it is in now way socially 'elite' like princeton or yale. berkley is also NOT NOT NOT 'uber-serious'. it is one of the top party and play schools, know since the sixties for its drugs and sex lifestyle. of course no dm writer would ever know anything about american universities.
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Common sense where did it go? Will adds like these have a major affect on college newspapers or news papers as a whole, in the future? Yes, she has freedom of speech to spill the beans on her personal sex life (as if anybody wants to know about it), but, to put it in a newspaper for all (any age) to see, is there a line crossed? How far is too far? As Americans, we have 1st Amendment freedom of expression, speech, and press, however, will instances like these impose harsher restraints on our freedoms to express explicit, profane, and sexual content publicly? Surely Berkeley doesn't like their name plastered all over the web as the University with the "newspaper sex columnist." Can they and/or are they going to stop her, restraining what their student newspaper writers can say? If they do, does this go above their head as a university to a Supreme Court decision in regards to the 1st Amendment? This is an interesting scenario which will surely bare interesting results in the future.
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