Kansas University is conducting a review of its policies regarding access to some facilities following the publication of the student newspaper’s annual Sex on the Hill edition.

Lynn Bretz, a university spokeswoman, said the university took the step after seeing some of the photos in the newspaper.

The University Daily Kansan’s annual edition, published on Sept. 18, featured photos of scantily clad people in various locations across the campus, including atop the Campanile and Fraser Hall.

Bretz said that though KU doesn’t restrict content in the student newspaper, the university was not pleased with the portrayals in the paper. “We were disappointed by that issue,” she said.

After seeing the photographs, the university decided to examine its policies to see whether they adequately addressed concerns about safety and access to valuable equipment, Bretz said.

The Monday after the issue was published, Kansan editor Matt Erickson wrote a column in which he apologized for the paper’s failure to consider the Campanile as a World War II memorial. He also said the paper didn’t want to deface or disrespect any campus location. “Our goal was not to sensationalize, to offend people or to encourage anyone to go to the top of the Campanile or Fraser Hall – please, please don’t,” Erickson wrote. “Instead, we hoped to portray sex as what it is – a major topic in the lives of many students, and as much a part of those students’ lives at KU as classes, sporting events or the buildings they pass by every day on campus.”

Erickson declined to comment Wednesday except to say he had received a report on the issue from the Kansan’s board, the faculty and student body that hires the newspaper’s editor, and would be formulating his response the next week.