Northern Exposure

Posted on December 11, 2004 by glasscastle

Bennington Outlaws Public Nudity

BENNINGTON, Vt. (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.

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.

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.

Another cherished collegiate tradition threatened by
the new American prudism and political correctness. No more peeping Tom
road trips up to Bennington….

from Reuters
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4 Responses to Northern Exposure

  1. Rafael Cerveza says:
    December 13, 2004 at 1:16 am

    can someone set up a webcam? please …

  2. grumpygirl says:
    December 15, 2004 at 12:04 am

    ugh, please. people like graves shouldn’t be up at bennington. i went to bennington, sometimes people were nude, sometimes they weren’t. who cares? the only time people care about such things is when they have some sort of fucked up prudish notion about the world. a body is a body is a body. no biggie.

  3. Mom says:
    January 1, 2005 at 9:13 pm

    you go,grumpy girl!

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