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Subject: Re: Swimming humiliation story -- fact or fiction?

Date: Tue 15/08/06 05:56:20 GMT

Name: Francois from Montréal

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By Telcontar - mrnemesis@ntlworld.com Mon 14/08/06 16:44:06 GMT

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Some of you by now are familiar with Lucy's University Swimming Test story at Wetlook Stories. Seems pretty far-fetched, doesn't it?

I was talking to Martina, and decided to investigate a little. I found a 1999-2000 University Curriculum Committee (UCC) report from Brandeis Univesity that contains the following:

The majority of Brandeis students know how to swim, but many wait till the last semester of their senior year, or even the last week of finals, to complete the test. About one student every three to four years fails to graduate because of his/her inability to swim. Four to 5.5 percent of all undergraduates enroll in "Beginner’s Swimming" during their Brandeis studies. Frequently, students from poor, urban populations have not had opportunities to learn to swim and wouldn’t voluntarily do so without a requirement. UCC members asked why students couldn’t be required to take the swim test before the end of the sophomore year. Students who did not comply could be prevented from pre-enrolling or registering, or could be automatically enrolled in swim class.

I found that because the story names "UCC" as the university, although the university in question is Brandeis, but clearly there is a curious similarity. I wonder thus, whether "Lucy" (whoever she is) just decided to embellish the story in a very weird and somewhat sadistic way ... How odd.