<p>PRINCETON BOROUGH -- The Princeton University Varsity Streak Team is at it again.
This time, police said, four white males and one white female darted across campus, in broad daylight, wearing only bright orange children flotation devices on their arms with university personnel looking on.
The exhibitionists were never arrested, police said.
Lt. Dennis McManimon said the students fled the scene before arresting officers arrived.
He said two university officials, looking down toward Prospect Avenue from the Woodrow Wilson building where the dean of student office is housed, spotted the naked group running past a large group of people at 12:25 p.m. Friday.
Whoever called the cops was not offended, police said, but the caller did note there were a lot of people in the area at the time who all got a clear look at the students private parts.
By the time police were on the scene, witnesses told authorities the naked students ducked into a university eating club on Prospect Avenue.
Last December, four undergraduates representingPrincetons Streaking Team strolled into professor Michael Litchmans final lecture wearing nothing but sneakers, hats and belts.
They handed Litchman a note, explaining they represented a university-based organization who get together to have naked runs through campus.
"We regretfully apologize that we will be unable to streak your lecture today," the note read.
"Due to inclement weather we were not able to get sufficient numbers to field a full team. We had hoped to streak for the cause of legalizing streaking."
The note, which Litchman read out loud, accurately characterized the Streaking Team as a quirky bunch, usually decorating their nudity with odd costume accessories like the "swimmies" worn Friday, who regard their activities as light-hearted competitions to see how many streakers they can amass.
Litchman did not call public safety at the time, and since then, three competitions have taken place in the past month.
For the most part, the Streaking Team runs at night, in hopes that the cover of darkness will encourage more people to show up. In addition to the psychology lecture and Fridays Prospect Avenue streak, the only other daylight run took place in February, when seven students streaked central campus in front of the Frist Student Center.
Streaking is an old school tradition at the Ivy League school.
In 1970 the first Nude Olympics took place in Holder courtyard. For 30 years students congregated at midnight on the night of the first snowfall, until 1999 when several alcohol related hospitalizations and rumors of inappropriate sexual behavior led the university to ban the iconic event.
Today, participation in the Nude Olympics is punishable by a one-year suspension.
In its heyday, the Nude Olympics inspired hundreds of students to take off their clothes.</p>
<p>©The Trentonian 2005</p>