Under the radar

Some Harvard children -- to me, anyone under 40 is a child -- from the class of 2000 have been ginning up a possible rival to the Harvard alumni magazine. You can check out their jazzy website at 02138magazine.com, which lays out their Gen-Y take on how great it is to have graduated from the World's Greatest University.

"There isn't really a publication out there for graduates who want an open and honest debate about what's going on at Harvard, who want reliable news about the campus, and who also want stories about all the extraordinary alumni who are out there," publisher-presumptive Bom Kim said. "Here's an example: We don't really have a sense of what Larry Summers is like. People don't know what to make of the radical shift in this role of the president. That's an article for us."

Kim & Co. started signing up charter subscribers just a few days ago. The plan is to start publishing 02138 -- six annual issues free for Harvard grads, $42 for the unwashed -- before the end of the year.

Alex Beam is a Globe columnist. His e-dress is beam@globe.com.

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