{"id":326,"date":"2004-12-09T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T04:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2004-12-09T21:26:33","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T04:26:33","slug":"two-midnight-non-sequitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/two-midnight-non-sequitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Two midnight non-sequitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

MeFi points out:<\/a> Photos<\/a> of the 1906 SF earthquake.<\/p>\n

This is my favorite one, looking at the Ferry building in the foreground.<\/a><\/p>\n

And from Bennington, VT, Reuters reported earlier this week:<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But when a student strolled around campus naked this summer during an orientation session when parents were visiting campus, the new dean reprimanded him.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“It is never lewd but a natural sight,” she said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“Bennington does not expect students to conform, but to transform,” the college’s Web site proclaims.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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