Current Events > Wait. Ivy League schools took naked pictures of incoming freshmen for decades

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MelbuFrahma4
02/17/23 3:49:20 PM
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Saw it in a Reddit thread

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League_nude_posture_photos

wtf

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FatAnimeBooty
02/17/23 3:50:31 PM
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However, starting in 2020, hundreds of photos of male freshman from Yale have gone up for sale individually on eBay


wow
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MelbuFrahma4
02/17/23 3:56:49 PM
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FatAnimeBooty posted...
However, starting in 2020, hundreds of photos of male freshman from Yale have gone up for sale individually on eBay

wow

Apparently Hillary Clinton went to one of those colleges from 1965-1969. So her nudes could be out there. Probably other famous people too. Im surprised none have commented on it that is such a weird thing for a school to do.


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dj1200
02/17/23 4:41:07 PM
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wtf

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Damn_Underscore
02/17/23 4:44:31 PM
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Its not just Ivy League schools

  • Brooklyn College
  • Harvard University
  • Hotchkiss School
  • Mount Holyoke College
  • Purdue University
  • Princeton University
  • Radcliffe College
  • Smith College
  • Swarthmore College
  • Syracuse University
  • University of California
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Wisconsin
  • Vassar College
  • Wellesley College
  • Yale University

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TaylorHeinicke
02/17/23 4:45:00 PM
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wat

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Neoconkers
02/17/23 4:48:30 PM
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and people wonder how "world is run by a New World Order led by paedos" conspiracies are so widely believed...

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Powdered_Toast
02/17/23 4:57:22 PM
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Look bro it's for a study it's scholarly bro you don't understand you have to get naked it's science

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Kuuko
02/17/23 5:00:51 PM
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I read the NYT article that mostly exposes the story about it. There are a lot of parts to the story but the TLDR is that the dude who masterminded the "posture photos", Herbert Sheldon, was really into eugenics - specifically how body types correlate with intelligence / success. And probably to some degree held a related opinion that, because your body type is genetic, different races probably had different ceilings of intelligence too.

He's also the dude who invented the made-up somatotype mesomorph endomorph stuff that people still repeat. The article notes "By the time Hillary Rodham arrived on the Wellesley campus, women were allowed to have their pictures taken only partly nude". It was written in 1995 and the wikipedia page mostly pulls from it, so not really clear what newer updates there are in this story other than that definitely not all of the photos are burned since the wikipedia page references a bunch of them coming up recently on auction sites.

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MelbuFrahma4
02/17/23 5:01:30 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Its not just Ivy League schools

* Brooklyn College
* Harvard University
* Hotchkiss School
* Mount Holyoke College
* Purdue University
* Princeton University
* Radcliffe College
* Smith College
* Swarthmore College
* Syracuse University
* University of California
* University of Pennsylvania
* University of Wisconsin
* Vassar College
* Wellesley College
* Yale University

That makes the OP worse since there were more schools taking the nudes "for science".

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legendary_zell
02/17/23 5:14:11 PM
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Kuuko posted...
I read the NYT article that mostly exposes the story about it. There are a lot of parts to the story but the TLDR is that the dude who masterminded the "posture photos", Herbert Sheldon, was really into eugenics - specifically how body types correlate with intelligence / success. And probably to some degree held a related opinion that, because your body type is genetic, different races probably had different ceilings of intelligence too.

He's also the dude who invented the made-up somatotype mesomorph endomorph stuff that people still repeat. The article notes "By the time Hillary Rodham arrived on the Wellesley campus, women were allowed to have their pictures taken only partly nude". It was written in 1995 and the wikipedia page mostly pulls from it, so not really clear what newer updates there are in this story other than that definitely not all of the photos are burned since the wikipedia page references a bunch of them coming up recently on auction sites.


I'm sure it's pure coincidence, but why are dudes named Herbert so into eugenics?

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Pastryarchy
02/17/23 5:14:27 PM
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Kuuko posted...
the dude who masterminded the "posture photos", Herbert Sheldon, was really into eugenics

So he was a gene supremacist creep, got it.

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Heartomaton
02/17/23 5:17:32 PM
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Elect me. I'll squash this crazy garbage.

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NeonTentacles
02/17/23 5:22:13 PM
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inb4 someone posts that Always Sunny clip lol

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Zeeak4444
02/17/23 5:25:09 PM
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Weird as fuck. Im not sure if Im surprised I havent heard this before though, kinda feels like it could go either way lol.

its optional at least though, ya?

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NeonTentacles
02/17/23 5:26:02 PM
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Zeeak4444 posted...
Weird as fuck. Im not sure if Im surprised I havent heard this before though, kinda feels like it could go either way lol.

its optional at least though, ya?
idk it says they did it to check for scoliosis. It was probably mandatory back then

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Questionmarktarius
02/17/23 5:26:04 PM
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Hold on... Penis Inspection Day is real?
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