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Thursday, October 10. 2013

First World problems at Swarthmore College


They are confused about what to do about sex, Obsessed with it. Clearly, homosexuality is nurtured, but what about heterosexual interests?



 “We are working with the fraternity on a multifaceted remedy that will require training and other measures be successfully completed before the fraternity can resume its recruitment efforts or host social events to ensure that our values are upheld, and that such a situation will not recur,” Liliana Rodriguez, associate dean at Swarthmore, told The Huffington Post on Wednesday.



"Their values"? This is the college with a co-ed nude masturbation club. That's higher ed in the USA. However, the "training and other measures" sounds like S & M fun. I think this lady dean has whips in her closet. That sounds more exciting than Physical Chemistry but perhaps at Swarthmore they might find a way to call it physical chemistry.


You know that painting. I don't need to tell you or any Swarthmore kid.


Posted by The Barrister in Education, Our Essays at 13:48 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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There is at least one good thing to say about Swarthmore: Obama was denied admission to Swarthmore. OTOH, had Obama been admitted to Swarthmore, as a commenter points out, he may have followed a common Swarthmore path and became a professor instead of President. So maybe it was a bad thing that Obama wasn't admitted to Swarthmore.
#1 Gringo on 2013-10-10 14:21 (Reply)
Nude masturbating a staircase. No longer scandalous anywhere.
#2 chuck on 2013-10-10 15:54 (Reply)
What? MEN(!) at Swarthmore? Since when?
#3 Sam L. on 2013-10-10 17:40 (Reply)
Yep, men at Swarthmore. Since 1865. It has always been co-ed, although in the early days the campus was kind of divided between men's and women's sections, for propriety's sake.
Because of the similarity in names, Swarthmore has been confused with Skidmore (one of the "Seven Sisters") for years and years.
#3.1 Jeannette on 2013-10-15 12:09 (Reply)
For the great unwashed that didn't go to Swarthmore what is the painting? (Not that I really care because it looks like a idle doodling)
#4 grant1863 on 2013-10-10 18:21 (Reply)
It's Nude Descending... by Pablo P. Ya hafta know it because it don't look like the title.
#4.1 Sam L. on 2013-10-10 19:04 (Reply)
Marcel Duchamp, not Pablo P.
#4.1.1 chuck on 2013-10-10 19:35 (Reply)
They just have to turn gay and then the college will leave them alone.
#5 Jim on 2013-10-10 19:27 (Reply)
Nudes descending Staircase Number Threesome
#6 forest on 2013-10-11 07:55 (Reply)
We had one of those clubs where I went to college in the 70's. We conducted club activities solo in our dorm rooms and then met to discuss later.
#7 Mr. Dart (Link) on 2013-10-11 09:43 (Reply)
I think "Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" by The Cramps more accurately captures the classiness of the Swarthmore coeds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI98Koc9Y-I
#8 LS (Link) on 2013-10-11 14:52 (Reply)

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