Three students at the prestigious Cambridge University have been criticized for featuring photos of scantily clad girls on the site of their student newspaper. ‘The Tab’ has been criticized for its ‘Tab Totty’ page which features female university students in their underwear. Even the Daily Mail had the cheek to criticize the site which is currently down presumably due to excessive demand.

Taymoor Atighetchi, Jack Rivlin and George Marangos Gilks set up The Tab for students at the university and accept submissions from other students. The site aims to entertain and the editors claim that their aim was not to be sexist. They say that The Tab is provided as an antidote to the formal tone of the other University papers available.

“We are all just a bunch of student enjoying a bit of harmless fun. The girls who posed up are people we know from Cambridge we all had fun doing the shots. Most of the objections come from elitists who think that think that tabloid entertainment is beneath them.”

George Marangos Gilks

Photographer Katy King who took the controversial photos stands by the feature:  “These girls have the freedom to do and say what they want, and they exercised that freedom by doing Tab Totty. It is a shame that girls have to get their kit off to generate feminist debate”.

Members of the student union have called for the paper to be axed as they believe it plays into the idea of women as sexual objects. Members of staff at the University are said to be carefully studying the photos in order to see if any action needs to be taken.

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