The girls who brought us the Harvard douchebag contest have extended their reach beyond Cambridge. Yesterday, Windsor Hanger ‘10, Stephanie Kaplan ‘10, and Annie Wang ‘11 of Harvard’s Freeze College Magazine launched their new “collegiette’s guide” called Her Campus, setting a new precedent for useless Ivy League publications (which, to be fair, could explain about 90% of all Harvard media enterprises).

After contacting co-founder and CEO Kaplan about what these three Prada Devil wannabes hope to accomplish with their new cyber digs, she responded with a lengthy mission statement:

From: stephanie@hercampus.com
To: qichen@ivygateblog.com
Subject: Re: IvyGate’s inquiry about Her Campus
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM

HerCampus.com is an online magazine for college women that seeks to pave the way for the media industry to successfully make the transition online.  Her Campus will transition magazines to today’s digital world by individualizing its content college by college by setting up “My Campus” branches, beginning at Harvard and eventually expanding to 1000+ colleges and universities nationwide.  By supplementing national with local content, Her Campus represents the future of online media.

Uh, was there ever a time when the internet wasn’t national? Not only that, but the pearl-donning triumvirate of the Ivy League’s new Seventeen seems to think they’re the first ones to come up with the idea of female-oriented college media. Read more after the jump.

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