Germanator's College Fights for Right to Bare All

[GameMaster]

BENNINGTON, Vermont (Reuters) -- Students occasionally parading buck 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.

Germanator, as a representative for all your peers, could you tell us how you feel about Robert Graves and his quest to exterminate an age-old tolerated form of expression?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/12...eut/index.html

On a sidenote, it's cool your college made CNN's most popular headline for today:

http://www.cnn.com/mostpopular/

[Dyne]

"Oh to be in college again," sniffed Stuart Hurd, Bennington's town manager. "More power to them. We are too uptight about public nudity in this country."

Hahaha.

But doesn't Vermont get cold?

[DimHalo]

That makes streaking so much more interesting... depending on how you look at it


Or who you're looking at

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Dyne

Hahaha.

But doesn't Vermont get cold?

Completely Agree.

Winter is not the season for streaking.

[The Germanator]

Woah, hilarious. Too bad this controversy happened around two months ago. Remember, it wasn't as cold in September, eh?

Anyway, I was never too much into this whole ordeal. I'm not one who is going to start running around naked just because I can. I suppose it effects the few people who do that here, but I'm not in that group. However, just because I don't partake in those kind of events, doesn't mean that I wouldn't fight for the right for others to do it.

Robert Graves is actually pretty cool though. He thinks a lot of the drinking and party fines that we get are completely absurd, so I think he will change a lot of the policies for the better in the future.

PS: Most of the controversy here was about the right of a certain house on campus to have their annual "Porn tree." Yes, it is basically what it sounds, a small tree decorated with pornography instead of leaves. That tradition had been going on for quite a while and Bob Graves called it harrassment and had the tree taken down. Still, not a big deal to me, but I understand why kids would be upset about it.