Yah, now you have to go to Florida during Spring Break to photograph them (nekid).
Wow. All these years, I thought my dad (Yale '70) had made that up.
Now I’m going to have to start believing all of his stories.
It’s hard to enter them when you’ve both got your clothes on, pictures or no pictures.
What a strange article. It’s amazing they did this for so long and hardly anyone said “isn’t this kind of weird?”
Does he tell a story about a big fish?
Gives a whole new meaning to Posture Pals
Then, of course, there’s the intrigue novel centering around the abduction of a young woman from the first co-educational class at a famed school of Renaissance Art. I refer, of course, to The DaVinci Coed.
:: D&R ::
Polycarp – 
Fascinating article. I’d heard about the practice, but never really thought about the implications of it, or about the whereabouts of the photos.
From the conclusion to the article:
I attended college in the 90s. While it was general knowledge that the term “co-ed” was used in most places to refer specifically to female students, we understood it to mean “including both genders.” There were men’s dorms, women’s dorms, and co-ed dorms (“segregated” by floor).
People were alot more trusting of authority back then. Then men at least would be used to group nudity (gym class, swimming at the Y, draft board physicals, etc).
I was just talking to someone about this yesterday, who went to school at the same time as me, and he had no recollection of this. At my school, all of the jocks and other athletic types wore these things all the time. Glad I’m not the only one who remembers, but I haven’t seen someone wear one in many years.
On the other hand, that t-shirt implies co-ed to mean “both sexes included,” doesn’t it?
The discussion here has been about the term “co-ed” to mean female students only. I’m a little older (I was already out of high school 30 years ago), but even then the term seemed very sexist. As old as I am, the concept of a men-only college is unfamiliar to me. I have a buddy who attended Texas A&M when it was men only, but by the time I came up to college age, “co-educational” seemed archaic, and the term “co-ed” to refer to girls was just silly.
Not what I was responding to; they said they’d never seen the word.
Um, er… to test for possible causes of the phallus erectus condition.
Gods…that would mean that there is probably a picture of GW (and Kerry too I guess) floating about, nude with pins in his back!
How am I supposed to be able to eat now??
-XT
This is a fascinating story, one I had no idea about until this thread.
Something I find interesting, though, are the quotes from Ivy League graduates, who are absolutely horrified at the idea that these photos might still exist and might be published, to their embarrassment.
We’re talking about people who are well into their 60s at least. I should think that finding a long-forgotten preserved record of one’s 19-year-old physical peak would be a prospect for delight, not of horror. And, after all, the article mentioned that these were almost relentlessly clinical documentations, not prurient at all.
If this question is not asked in jest, it is the most amazing thing I have ever read on a SDMB.
They may not be American’s (I don’t think co-ed is used in other countries like it is here…I certainly never remember hearing that term in Mexico), or it may be a generational thing (it’s very different today than it was when I went to school).
At any rate, it’s not the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard on this board. 
-XT
I remember a news item about it sometime during the Clinton administration, reporting on the apparent existence of nude pictures of Hillary among the Wellesley students.
I’ve read all kinds of amazing things on those SDMBs.