Why Colleges Used to Take Nude Photos of Their Students

The first week of school can be uncomfortable enough as you adjust to a new situation, but it was probably even worse back when schools made you strip down for a nude photo shoot—even if they thought they had a good reason for it. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—Alexander Wadsworth, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-league-nude-posture-photo-scandal.html?pagewanted=all http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/3/18/posing-for-posture-pbabs-an-american/ http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/2311/sheldon.html https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Sheldon http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/30/484053435/personality-can-change-over-a-lifetime-and-usually-for-the-better http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/219209 http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5737 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5405774_Physique_as_Destiny_William_H_Sheldon_Barbara_Honeyman_Heath_and_the_Struggle_for_Hegemony_in_the_Science_of_Somatotyping ---------- Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bodytypes.jpg