Ladies and gentlemen, higher education:
STUDENTS at America’s prestigious Ivy League universities are rebelling against their colleges’ stuffy reputations, casting off society’s norms along with their clothes to hold naked parties.
Megan Crandell, a final-year Yale student who has attended six naked parties, said: “The dynamic is completely different from a clothed party. People are so conscious of how they’re coming across that conversations end up being more sophisticated. You can’t talk about how hot that chick was the other night.”
Presumably, that’s because it’s Yale, and the chick wasn’t that hot.
UPDATE: Something else occurs to me. Supposedly, the whole idea behind these parties is to throw off the crushing restraint of social taboos:
“Compadres, join us in refusing to comply with a culture that tells us to hide our body, to be ashamed of its scents, secretions, curves and hair, to conceal those parts that have been dealt sexual connotations.”
Apparently, the students don’t see any cognitive dissonance in replacing one social norm (wearing clothes) with another (not looking at naked people):
Of party etiquette, Mollie Farber, a senior student at Yale, said: “You’re allowed to give everyone a quick once-over as you say, ‘Hey, what’s up?’, but after that, you’ve got to maintain pretty good eye contact.”
How revolutionary.
BENZION ADDS: As a graduate of what is probably the hippiest school in America, I can attest from first-hand experience–the willingness of a student to show up naked at a party is almost inversely proportional to the average person’s desire to see them naked.
This has come to be known as “Benzion’s First Iron Law of Higher Education.”
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Is it naked or nekkid. Naked is having no clothes on. Nekkid is having no clothes and being up to something!
When I was in school, naked was about equal to tha amount of booze comsumed
This stuff runs in cycles, I see.
They really think they’re on the cutting edge of societal evolution, eh?
Nekkid nerds, I tell ya.
I’ve heard that Benzion’s First Law also applies to Caribbean beaches in addition to Ivy League parties.
#4. Here is the proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CktkNU9d8qI
Safe for work.
Benzene, is that like the one that says,
“Unless several peple are lining-up to pay you a lot of money to disrobe in public, you may safely assume there very few, if any, that want you to do so for free” ?????
How many times at these parties will you hear, “My eyes are up here.”?
What nakes these kids think this is anything new. Toga parties always had someone - usually some girl who had drank a gallon or two, lose her toga and dance on a table top before she passed out.
Like we the geezer generation didn’t already do this!!!
Nekkid college boy sees nekkid college girl–
“You’re allowed to give everyone a quick once-over”
and nekkid college girl says–
‘Hey, what’s up?’
Next thing you know, they’ll eat live goldfish, see how many people they can cram into a phonebooth or volkswagon, or something crazy like running naked across the stage at a formal event. Probably even make up a name for it and have someone write a popular song.
Kids nowadays! What else will they get up to that we never even considered?
Benzion,
Would that be…
…UC-Berkely?
Where was this when I was in college? Although I admit I didn’t go “Ivey League” or any other hippie college. Guess that is why I got a good edjumcation!
Having lived near Yellow Springs and driven through Antioch on a few occasions, I can concur that Benzion is quite correct. We did have cuter coeds at Wittenberg.
Must have been all of the donuts and ice cream at Young’s - at least that was one of my weaknesses (especially when they still had the 10 cent donuts and croissants after midnight).
#13 Lethcoeb– I have many good memories of Youngs, not the least of which is that is where I courted the woman who would one day become Mrs. Benzion.
Late-night debates about the social construction of fraternity hazing rituals over fried chicken sandwiches and cheezy fries. Good times, good times.
#11 Tito– Where I was in school, you know what we called folks at UC-Berkely?
“The Man.”
THAT’S how hippie-dippy leftist Antioch was/is.
Is “hey, what’s up” akin to “how’s it hanging”…? then of, course eye contact is maintained throughout…
I think these folks are old enough to do as they please. I know I do. They have the right to be naked. I have the right not to care.