From Pine View Farm

Good Old Golden Rule Days 0

Bennett Cerf told the story of the wealthy alumnus getting a tour for his alma mater from the college president, who’s drooling over a prospective donation.

The prez takes him to his old dorm room. They knock on the door and the current resident opens it. The alumnus says, “Same old room.”

He looks around. “Same old desk. It was a wreck when I lived here.”

He opened the closet to reveal a girl cowering in the corner. “Same old girl.”

“It’s, it’s my sister, sir,” stammered the resident.

“Ahhh,” said the alumnus. “Same old lie.”

Back when I went to school, you had to sneak ’em in:

After receiving about a dozen complaints in the last several years from a student body of 5,000, the upscale private (Tufts–ed.) university this fall took what is at the very least an unusual step in the world of college housing: It banned in writing sex with a roommate present.

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