Cambridge Universitys first online tabloid,which includes students posing as Page 3 girls under the banner Totty, is at the centre of a controversy. The tabloid,called The Tab,was launched this year and got 80,000 hits in its first week. However,a section in the Tab that features students in their underwear is at the centre of a row. The student unions womens officer,Natalie Szarek,has called for Tab Totty to be taken down for good because they reproduce and reinforce harmful attitudes towards women. Semi-naked women in provocative positions are being shoved in freshers faces. We can do better as a university, Szarek said. Taymoor Atighetchi,21,a third-year student at Trinity College and one of the tabloids three co-founders who paid 500 pounds each to launch the website,defended The Tab,insisting it would continue its style of journalism. Theres a huge amount of intellectual snobbery around,mainly from those who havent read the site, the Telegraph quoted him as saying.
