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Last year, students who didn’t want to shell out for Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue could head for the magazine racks at Lamont Library. This year, they’ll have to wait...
...Sports Illustrated magazine withheld its annual swimsuit edition—cover price $5.99—from libraries and schools this year, in a move that has sparked controversy across the country. At Lamont, a librarian has requested a copy of the issue, while several House libraries that subscribe to Sports Illustrated are going without the 238 pages of skimpy swimsuits and car advertisements that have become an American institution...
...Sports Illustrated to withhold an issue that’s part of our subscription,” said John C. McMillian, the librarian for Quincy House. Quincy, along with Adams and Lowell, is among the Houses that subscribes to Sports Illustrated but didn’t get the swimsuit issue, which hit newsstands about a month...
...Under the new Sports Illustrated policy, the annual swimsuit issue would not be sent to schools or libraries unless librarians explicitly asked for it. While the magazine did not return a request for comment yesterday, Sports Illustrated representatives have said the move came as a response to some librarians’ concerns over propriety...
...This year’s incarnation of the swimsuit issue, which was first published in 1964, features singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles on the cover, kneeling provocatively on a sand beach in a red-and-yellow two-piece bikini...