Both Fark and Digg picked up this Boston Globe article on college swim tests and the handful of MIT graduates who still have to pass it in order to graduate. As a Cornell alumni, I have to weigh in that we, too, had a swim test. You passed it your first week as a freshman or you got enrolled in a swim class to fulfill the physical education requirement.
It’s a shame that only 14% of colleges still have such a requirement and the number is dropping. The Earth’s surface is over 70% water, and if you believe in global warming, that number is only going to increase.
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