MeFi points out: Photos of the 1906 SF earthquake.
This is my favorite one, looking at the Ferry building in the foreground.
And from Bennington, VT, Reuters reported earlier this week:
Students occasionally parading naked around Vermont’s Bennington College campus has been a tolerated, if peculiar, part of the university’s student culture here since the 1960s.
Now Robert Graves, hired this year as Bennington’s dean of students, has embarked on a crusade against public nudity — one that has run afoul of the school’s free-spirited students.
Students have long enjoyed an informal policy allowing them to go naked on campus. Whether it was as a topless sunbather lounging on the lawn or students running naked at an annual bonfire party, college officials turned a blind eye.
But when a student strolled around campus naked this summer during an orientation session when parents were visiting campus, the new dean reprimanded him.
More than 200 students, a few of them naked, marched across campus in October to protest against what they saw as a crackdown by the administration on freedom of expression. While the impending onset of the New England winter has put a temporary pause to the dispute, students are preparing for a springtime assault.
Lindsey Gage, a Bennington senior leading the fight to preserve what she concedes is an unwritten policy, said she has grown accustomed to public nudity since enrolling here.
“It is never lewd but a natural sight,” she said.
American liberal arts colleges do not get much more liberal than Bennington. Nestled in Vermont’s Green Mountains, the school has a nontraditional approach to education in which students draw up their own curricula.
“Bennington does not expect students to conform, but to transform,” the college’s Web site proclaims.
