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I was a student at UC Berkeley in 1980s. We woke-rolled one another mercilessly on a daily basis. Also there was Naked Man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An

I was a student at UC Berkeley in 1980s. We woke-rolled one another mercilessly on a daily basis. Also there was Naked Man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Martinez https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Martinez

ashtonkem 5y ago
I think a non trivial percentage of this is some people refusing to admit that they’re now the very adults that they once pilloried and hated. It can’t possibly be just that they’re now the adults rolling their eyes at the annoying college students they once were, no the children must be wrong (insert Simpsons meme here).
dekhn 5y ago
that's such an odd story; at the time, I attended UCSC (not far from UC Berkeley) and public nudity was a regular feature and totally accepted in classes (my RA spent the entire day nude, including cafeteria, class, and studying on the quad, and nobody batted an eye). We also had co-ed bathrooms and pot smoking was not disallowed (amusingly, the leadership went out of its way to reduce drinking, but not smoking, based on the history of abuse they had seen).
- watersb 5y ago
  We had the co-ed dorms, which seemed to work out. If you were too offensive, you were Spoken To. I had friends who were members of fraternities or sororities, and they were far more strict on a daily basis. That structure also seemed to work for people who were more accustomed to family as a public persona. The scope of their mistakes were perhaps more broad. And then... there were the co-operatives. The communes. More rules and work duty, usually better living conditions than the dorms. Finally, perhaps, there were the Streets, which at the time were very densely packed with people in urgent need of psychiatric care. De-fund the hospitals! 1980s. For all that, nudity was a real stretch. It was rough, and it was weird.

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I was a student at UC Berkeley in 1980s. We woke-rolled one another mercilessly on a daily basis. Also there was Naked Man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An

by watersb 5y ago

ashtonkem 5y ago
I think a non trivial percentage of this is some people refusing to admit that they’re now the very adults that they once pilloried and hated. It can’t possibly be just that they’re now the adults rolling their eyes at the annoying college students they once were, no the children must be wrong (insert Simpsons meme here).
dekhn 5y ago
that's such an odd story; at the time, I attended UCSC (not far from UC Berkeley) and public nudity was a regular feature and totally accepted in classes (my RA spent the entire day nude, including cafeteria, class, and studying on the quad, and nobody batted an eye). We also had co-ed bathrooms and pot smoking was not disallowed (amusingly, the leadership went out of its way to reduce drinking, but not smoking, based on the history of abuse they had seen).
- watersb 5y ago
  We had the co-ed dorms, which seemed to work out. If you were too offensive, you were Spoken To. I had friends who were members of fraternities or sororities, and they were far more strict on a daily basis. That structure also seemed to work for people who were more accustomed to family as a public persona. The scope of their mistakes were perhaps more broad. And then... there were the co-operatives. The communes. More rules and work duty, usually better living conditions than the dorms. Finally, perhaps, there were the Streets, which at the time were very densely packed with people in urgent need of psychiatric care. De-fund the hospitals! 1980s. For all that, nudity was a real stretch. It was rough, and it was weird.