[DanBC]

It is creepy. But US colleges have done far far worse.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-lea...

> ONE AFTERNOON IN THE LATE 1970's, deep in the labyrinthine interior of a massive Gothic tower in New Haven, an unsuspecting employee of Yale University opened a long-locked room in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and stumbled upon something shocking and disturbing.

> Shocking, because what he found was an enormous cache of nude photographs, thousands and thousands of photographs of young men in front, side and rear poses. Disturbing, because on closer inspection the photos looked like the record of a bizarre body-piercing ritual: sticking out from the spine of each and every body was a row of sharp metal pins.

[jessaustin]

One wonders whether the entire seven-page article were written solely for the sake of the final sentence.

[DanBC]

Not quite sure what's happening with the votes on this post, with some up and some down votes.

In case it wasn't clear: several US universities took nude "posture photographs" of most people who attended, and did so for decades. They took the photos in the name of science, but that science was probably junk.

That feels worse than an unofficial email list asking people what colour underwear they have on before accepting their post.

[rashkov]

Hey I voted you up. I really enjoyed the article and came back to upvote for that. My initial knee jerk reaction to your post was that it's slightly besides the point -- an interesting aside but somewhat off topic for the post. I suppose that could be why you were getting downvoted. Anyway it's super interesting, thanks for sharing