Entries in the Category "Strange But True"
Students at Work
The Office of Student Employment can be found on the fourth floor of Yost Hall. Today, students can work for the university in numerous capacities, from supplementary instruction leaders to campus security to being the person who makes sure you don't sneak into Veale without swiping your ID first. The types of work available to students are diverse, but the key to all of them is that they are all fairly compatible with a student lifestyle, in that they are service oriented. This stems from the philosophy of being a student first and foremost. One should not exhaust a student with physical labor such that schoolwork may suffer.
Oddly enough, during mid-1800s the exact opposite approach was taken at the Western Reserve College.
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The Zero Growth Clinic
Ever since Thomas Malthus's "An Essay on the Principle of Population," over-population has been a concern among both academics and policymakers. This is a legitimate concern that has only grown more pressing in recent years as resources such as arable land and drinkable water have become points of contention and conflict. But during the late 1960s and early 1970s the Case Institute of Technology and the proceeding Case Western Reserve University took some interesting attempts to solve the problem.