Perhaps President Bush’s pleas to the national media to keep the glare off of his twin daughters is not falling on deaf ears. Either way, the staff of The Rumpus, a self-styled university tabloid published by students at Yale University, doesn’t care.

A Rumpus story in the magazine’s April edition, entitled “O Daughter, Where Art Thou,” alleges that Bush’s 20-year-old daughter Barbara, a freshman at Yale, deliberately lost contact on two separate occasions with Secret Service agents hired to protect her.

Author Nathaniel Pincus-Roth alleges that in one incident, Bush and her friends lost the agents at a tollbooth when traveling to New York to attend a World Wrestling Federation show. A friend and fellow passenger told the Rumpus that the driver of the car Bush was in used an electronic pass to go through a tollbooth, while the agents, who had no such pass, had to wait in line.

The bodyguards eventually caught up with the car after they “put on their sirens and sped 120 m.p.h,” the friend said.

In a second incident, Bush’s college roommate claims that a Secret Service agent asked her for the first daughter’s whereabouts and the status of her cell phone.

Yale officials, furious with the report, ordered copies of the edition destroyed and told editors Jared Leboff and Matt Johnson to remove the story, available in Adobe Acrobat format, from the Rumpus’ online site. A message on the site states that the issue is unavailable for download, but gives no reason as to why.

Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg, who ordered the issue’s removal a week after it first appeared, said that she was “disgusted” by the article, and called the magazine’s decision to “exploit” Bush’s presence at Yale “deplorable.”

Leboff, in an interview with the Yale Daily News, defended the story, arguing that the Secret Service, as a “public institution” in his words, is fair game. He did, however, understand the orders to remove the magazine’s online edition, saying that the content in the Rumpus is intended specificially for the Yale community.

Bush’s story has since been covered by the Star, a popular national tabloid.