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<\/p>\nBennington Outlaws Public Nudity<\/font><\/p>\n BENNINGTON, Vt. (Reuters) – Students occasionally parading Now Robert Graves, hired this year as Bennington’s dean of students, has embarked Students have long enjoyed an informal policy allowing them to go naked on campus. Lindsey Gage, a Bennington senior leading the fight to preserve what she concedes "It is never lewd but a natural sight," she said.<\/p>\n American liberal arts colleges do not get much more liberal than Bennington. Another cherished collegiate tradition threatened by from Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading
\n buck naked around Vermont’s Bennington College campus has been a tolerated,
\n if peculiar, part of the university’s student culture here since the
\n 1960s.<\/p>\n
\non a crusade against public nudity — one that has run afoul of the school’s
\nfree-spirited students.<\/p>\n
\nWhether it was as a topless sunbather lounging on the lawn or students running
\nnaked at an annual bonfire party, college officials turned a blind eye.<\/p>\n
\nis an unwritten policy, said she has grown accustomed to public nudity since
\nenrolling here.<\/p>\n
\nNestled in Vermont’s Green Mountains, the school has a nontraditional approach
\nto education in which students draw up their own curricula.<\/p>\n
\n the new American prudism and political correctness. No more peeping Tom
\n road trips up to Bennington….<\/em><\/p>\n