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"Campus Views and News” This spring, one senior invited to New Haven a young aviatrix who is in the habit of piloting her own plane around the country on casual calls. She flew in from Pennsylvania, but couldn’t find a field for a convenient landing near New Haven. The young lady swooped over Harkness Tower a number of times before choosing a landing spot in far off Bethany, where her admirer was forced to drive to meet her. The senior is still the victim of much quiet kidding about his sensational caller.
"The Undergraduate Month” Among the more interesting and certainly more constructive extracurricular activities is an organization known as Yale Aviation. This group, which has its headquarters at the New Haven Municipal Airport, is composed largely of ex-service flyers interested in bringing the sport (if we may call it that) to the University. Thus far, the club, which is restricted to its own limited funds, possesses but one Piper Cub—but its members hope that somewhere they may find more support through which they can make flying a practical reality here as it is in so many other colleges over the nation.
"Yale and the New Sisterhood” People always ask me about the relationship between girls and boys at Yale, but few are interested in the relationships between girls and girls. This is one of the most perplexing problems of being female at Yale—it is virtually impossible to meet many other girls. I know my three roommates, the seven other girls with whom we share a bathroom, a few more in my classes, and some I knew in high school. But beyond that, I am lost in a sea of men. This seemed like a paradise at first. But a girl can sometimes feel very lonely without friends among her own sex.
"Time and Change” When I graduated, it was the custom to put at the end of the class book a questionnaire with such innocent items as “favorite teacher” and “favorite poem.” Such censuses seem to have gone out of style. I cannot find them in recent class books. But this year’s Commencement Issue of the News had its own. It didn’t ask about your favorite poem, but it did ask, “Are you a virgin? Are you heterosexual, homosexual, or both? How often have you engaged in group sex? Whose side were you on in the strike?” In the Angellic era, no News editor would have dared ask such questions. The replies to the first three questions would have been “none of your business,” that is, assuming we had understood them.
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