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From the Archives
Summer 2002

Campus Crime Protection
January 1977

Concern over crime on the Yale campus seems to be paying off. Statistics for the fall term indicate that the number of reported thefts from residential areas has dropped 50 percent in comparison to the same period in 1975. The installation of peepholes, access telephones, and locks on college gates and Old Campus entryways has been completed. Campus officers donned uniforms in 1976, a motorcycle patrol has been instituted, and three women officers have joined the force. In addition, the police now carry calling cards which read, You might have been ripped off, for deposit by any unlocked doors or bicycles, or unattended purses.

Eight Views (Of a Phenomenon in Progress)
April 1970

The average Yale coed has put on about seven pounds since she arrived here,and sometimes this is the first reality that hits her. Having to cope with it is almost a relief, and she pressures herself into a strenuous routine of salad eating and exercises—not social action or academic immersion. The routine satisfies the need for real life.

Required Physical Education
February 1942

Yale will institute a program of required physical educationto equip its entire student body for the rigors of service in the armed forces. The program will supplement the existing athletic schedule. For 25 years, Yale has concentrated on improving the physical bearing and stamina of undergraduates by scientific correction of faults found in freshmen. This has been supplemented by voluntary classes in bodybuilding, special toughening exercises, and manual labor.

The Week
April 1920

The undergraduate who is granted six holidays, over two weeks at Christmas and one at Easter, and 112 days' summer vacation,and who, in addition, has Saturday afternoons and Sundays and 10 days possible cuts, is probably doing, when his life is considered as a whole, the least amount of work he will ever do. We see no reason why, for the students' sake, the University year should not be lengthened appreciably, certainly a fortnight in the summer and a week throughout the winter.

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