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Illiterate Intellectual
https://heritage.fsu.edu/publications/reprint1952-03-31life-01.html
Life Magazine - March 31, 1952
Florida State University is the one academic institution in the U.S. where it is possible to get college credit for being a clown. Along with history and economics, F.S.U. gives a course in circus performing. The idea goes back to 1947 when, to speed transition of the university from a women�s into a co-ed school, the administrators began searching for an activity in which both men and women could participate. The unusual, star-spangled circus course was the answer. Students train right on the campus to be tightrope walkers, trapeze artists, clowns an acrobats. To pay for the rigging they put on performances in nearby towns and a big show each spring in the university stadium. The course has served the cause of integration almost too well�there have been numerous marriages among the performers. These have cost Coach Jack Haskin some of his best aerialists, who left college after marrying. So far, however, none of the students have quit to join Ringling Brothers. They apparently view the flying trapeze as just a part of a normal liberal education.
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