We have always had the crazy
On this day when we like to review the whacky, crazy crap that has happened, here is something that fits. Though, not from last year. It is easy to see how conspiracy develops when learning of such past. It’s not just the uneducated that create the nuttiness. It is not just the lack of knowledge that will lead oneself down the rabbit hole. We seem to have a knack for creating institutional lunacy from the application of deference. Add some pompous to the mix and wah lah…socially accepted nutso. The theory: Societal stature and in this instance, posture suggest betterment.
And to think people paid extra for the bestowment of Ivy League credentials.
The “Great Ivy Leaue Nude Posture Photo Scandal”
Happy New Year. Here’s hoping we do better defining whatever we endeavor to define.
Becker
I didn’t know what you were talking about until I watched the video…or tried to watch (bailed at about five minutes).
so, yes. lunacy is a fact of human nature. not limited to those whose posture is destroyed by the requiremnts of what they do to make a living.
THE GREAT IVY LEAGUE NUDE POSTURE PHOTO SCANDAL
NY Times – January 15, 1995
… The procedure did seem strange. But I soon learned that it was a long-established custom at most Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools. George Bush, George Pataki, Brandon Tartikoff and Bob Woodward were required to do it at Yale. At Vassar, Meryl Streep; at Mount Holyoke, Wendy Wasserstein; at Wellesley, Hillary Rodham and Diane Sawyer. All of them — whole generations of the cultural elite — were asked to pose. But however much the colleges tried to make this bizarre procedure seem routine, its undeniable strangeness engendered a scurrilous strain of folklore. THE MISMEASURE OF MAN
There were several salacious stories circulating at Yale back in the 60’s. Most common was the report that someone had broken into a photo lab in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and stolen the negatives of that year’s Vassar posture nudes, which were supposedly for sale on the Ivy League black market or available to the initiates of Skull and Bones. Little did I know how universal this myth was.
“Ah, yes, the famous rumored stolen Vassar posture pictures,” Nora Ephron (Wellesley ’62) recalled when I spoke with her. “But don’t forget the famous rumored stolen Wellesley posture photos.”
“Wellesley too?”
“Oh, yes,” she said. “It’s one of those urban legends.”
Education-related?
Former Harvard president Claudine Gay: This is a ‘broader war’
Boston Globe – just in
Daniel:
I finally had a chance to watch and listen to The History Guy’s presentation. Don’t know whether to laugh or get angry. I suppose there are some rather strange occurrences occurring now as I write this reply.
What day is this? Yes, January 1, the first day of 2024. Thank you for the laugh at such absurdity. I did listen to it all. Right around minute eleven History Guy talks about various classifications. What classification did you propose for yourself? For me? Only the best one.
Happy New Year Daniel (4 days late).