LIKE ANN ALTHOUSE, I found time to wander campus for a little while this afternoon. And, like Ann, I found student electioneering underway, though without the rock’em-sock’em approach.

Skateboarding is not a crime, as we’re often told. You see less of it on campus than you did a few years ago, though.

Professors still hold class outside on nice days.

Outdoor snacking is also popular.

Though in an earlier post, I noted that it was mostly women who seemed to be walking and chatting on cellphones, men do use them — though this guy is a Physical Plant staffer, not a student.

It does seem, though that most of the people walking around and talking into cellphones are women. I certainly hope that cellphones don’t turn out to cause cancer or something. If they do, the gender imbalance that Ann notes on college campuses is likely to be reversed in future generations, because my casual observation suggests that female college students get several times the RF exposure from cellphones that men get.

I tend to think that the cellphone-danger bit is overblown. I certainly hope I’m right, because if it’s not, things are going to turn out badly.