campus history

March 18, 2025

A 1940s photo shows a woman in a sweater smiling and being kissed on the cheek by a man.

No kissing!

Smooching on the UW campus was outlawed back in 1929 when then-UW President Matthew Lyle Spencer saw the display of affection as an affront to the morals of the time.


June 20, 2023

Historian, tour guide, archive enthusiast

Let Antoinette Wills show you around the UW's campus.