Parody Costs Two Princeton Editors Jobs

Whether or not Brooke Shields is accepted to her first choice school Princeton by April 15 the young actress has already begun to leave her mark on the school

Due to a controversial parody about Shields the editor-in-chief and president of the Tiger Princeton's equivalent of the Lampoon, were removed from office by the magazine's alumni Board of Trustees on March 9

Described by Princeton's Dean of Student Affairs Anderson Brown as "totally inappropriate the article, entitled "Impressing and Sleeping with Brook included references to sex and rape. The article featured a list of seven recommended ways to get to sleep with "Brook Shell."

Herschlag the deposed editor in chief, asserts that "the idea behind the article was not to mock Brooke," but instead to present a "tongue-in-cheek satire of the college male libido and the extent it will go to get a date with a beautiful woman."

The article recommended as possible strategies quitting smoking, writing silly letters and shooting the President dating Brooke's mother or roommates or just remaining intriguingly aloof in the stack of Princeton's library and thereby piquing Shields's curiously

Herschlag admits that the Tiger had "underestimated the response" of the Princeton community. He adds that when the article was written he believed it would be a "service to the student population." He said that that the great attention the parody has provoked shows the level of "frustration of Princeton students on the subject of sex

Wendell M. Long, the outgoing president, said he is sorry that the parody has been labelled "sexist" by some critics, since he said the intention of the article was to parody these sexist stereotypes.

Herschlag and Long say they hope to establish their own magazine which would continue on the Tiger which has temporarily suspended publication. Due to the publicity received from publications including. The Washington Post and The New York Times. Herschlag says he has been offered a job at the National Lampoon in New York City this summer