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The Yale Alumni Magazine is owned and operated by Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation independent of Yale University. The content of the magazine and its website is the responsibility of the editors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers. |
On one warm spring afternoon, I almost had my comeuppance as a grader. I was sunbathing in the nude on the roof of the gym, alternating dozing and grading some 50 blue books in a pile beside me. A sudden gust of wind blew the top dozen blue books over the parapet. I dashed over in dismay, realizing that if the papers landed on a sidewalk, where passing students could pick them up, my grading career was finished. Fortunately, the blue books landed in some shrubbery, where, after a hasty rush for clothes in the locker room, I could rescue them.
Sex and the Yale Student, a 64-page illustrated pamphlet, was published by a small group of students who were among the approximately 1,000 undergraduates to take Dr. Philip Sarrel’s non-credit course on human sexuality last spring. Many readers may be surprised to learn that college students have any questions at all about sex, considering how it gluts the nation today. The student authors take a matter-of-fact approach to their delicate subject that might shock people who disapprove of pre-marital intercourse, birth control, abortion, or even of frankly talking about traditional sex taboos.
Before the Cornell game, excited students emptied into Cross Campus for the season’s first rally. After the team had been introduced and the pep talks offered, the situation got out of hand. For hours, Elm Street flared with blue sparks from the trolley wires as students broke the contacts between trolley and power line. Rolls of toilet paper arched from windows and thudded on the sidewalk, or on someone’s head. People stormed the Hotel Taft, which was defended by glowering policemen. On Elm Street, a police car tried to push people out of the roadway like a snowplow. A few billy clubs were swung, and statistics show that Yale casualties outnumbered police injuries—though no one can guess what nervous disorders were suffered.
Max Schwartz, the instructor in swimming, has had some amusing experiences in his work with the freshmen since swimming has been made compulsory. Last fall, a young Filipino student came down to the swimming tank not quite certain that he could swim, but willing to show what he could do. At the word, he plunged in with brave assurance, but instead of going ahead, he went to the bottom and stayed there until Schwartz, who was fully dressed, jumped in and pulled him out in a waterlogged condition. The young Filipino was not discouraged, but after being dried out, at once returned to the attack, and is now one of the best swimmers in his class. |
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