Columbia U. students plan to party "like the savages we really are" (NUDE)

[matcom]

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An invitation to an all-night party at an undisclosed location is spreading among Columbia University's student body with viral intensity.

"Compadres," the e-mail states, "join us in refusing to comply with a culture that tells us to hide our body, to be ashamed of its scents, secretions, curves, and hair, to conceal those parts that have been dealt sexual connotations. We're gonna f-- this bondage we call clothing and party like the savages we really are."

Following in the footsteps of their exhibitionist peers at Brown and Yale, Columbia undergraduates are staging parties with one basic ground rule - all guests must part with their clothes upon arrival. The invitation circulating around Morningside Heights bans three additional items: cameras, masks, and "spikey things."

"Join us for a night of champagne, martinis, witchcraft, psychedelia, syncopated rhythms, thin bass lines, and body paint," reads the invitation, which was obtained by The New York Sun.

While it's too early to say whether a tradition has been born, the naked party appears to be taking root at Columbia, a school better known for its stringent sexual misconduct policies and grinding course work than for its freeloving co-eds.

"Columbia students are generally not into the exhibitionist realm," said Zachary Bendiner, a senior who edits a campus periodical, the Blue and White. "Rightfully so, because by and large they aren't terribly attractive."

The idea of a naked party may conjure up some of the more outrageously lurid campus scenes found in Tom Wolfe's recent novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" and feed into parental paranoia about the coarsening of college life. Students who have mustered up the courage to go to one, however, are more likely to downplay the sexual nature of the event. It's more of a social opportunity, they say, to lose one's inhibitions, to engage in interesting, more personal, conversation, and to feel comfortable in one's own skin.

http://www.nysun.com/article/23347

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Oh, sure, right after I move out of the neighborhood

The best part of living in that neighborhood was the babe watching.

Hubba!!

[ET Awful]

2. Where do I register? I always wanted to go back to school and earn

my . . . . degree :evilgrin:

[khashka]

3. Sounds kinda nice to me

And our kids still have a sense of humour.....


Khash.

[Hugin]

4. Releasing the new patented Prag-o-matic "Copy Cat Headline Generator"(tm)

... on this yields.

"Columbia U. students plan to party "like the sausages we really are" (NUDE)"

Needs tweaking.