A Harvard student magazine which gained national attention earlier this year for breaking news on Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura is back in the spotlight with a report that the presidential campaign of Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) advertised on a pornography website.

Harvard Current Editor Dona M. Kim '01 said she came across an advertisement for McCain's presidential campaign when she happened to click on the website "Asians Nude" in mid-January.

The site, which claims to be the "Number One Asian Site on the Net," featured a McCain banner at the top of screen, Kim said.

The Current issued a press release calling attention to the ad, and the story has since been picked up by ABCnews.com, the Hotline, the Matt Drudge Report, C-Net and other publications.

The Current has also sent the press release to the presidential campaign of Alan L. Keyes '72, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN, the Christian Coalition and the George W. Bush Campaign.

The Current issued the press release in time for their Spring 2000 issue--scheduled to be distributed in the beginning of March--which will cover the story in more detail.

The McCain ad, which no longer appears on the website, appeared on the pornography site as part of a contract with www.theglobe.com, an Internet network that sells ad space on a variety of sites.

The McCain 2000 campaign purchased ad space from theglobe.com that would target Internet users according to their geographic location, not the content of site they viewed, Director of Advertising Sales at theglobe.com Will Margiloff told the Current.