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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.
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.
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 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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