<p>I know there are schools that offer something like a midnight naked run - why ? Is it because naked young bodies still look so good ? My D mentioned an upcoming naked brunch - imagine spilling hot coffee ! Looking for answers .</p>
<p>Schools don’t offer it. It’s usually an unofficial student tradition. Never heard of a naked brunch before.</p>
<p>Because they can?</p>
<p>Those who attend, and those who gawk, both think it’s fun. There are many things that happen at college that seem weird to those who don’t share the value of the event. DS, for example, thinks frat parties are stupid and doesn’t see the point in them (“Why would I want to go and watch a bunch of kids getting drunk?”) Others apparently think they’re the cat’s meow.</p>
<p>Not sure what kind of an ‘answer’ you are looking for…</p>
<p>I remember years ago, a friend of mine had a son attending Univ. of Chicago. He, like many college boys, didn’t call her often enough for her liking and to feel a sense of closeness, she used to regularly read the school paper online. One day, she got a big surprise when the headline story and photo was of the naked polar bear run and there was her son, front and center, in all his glory! 
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<p>I’m not sure what the attraction is for participants in these events. I never ‘got’ the streaker phenomenon either but it doesn’t bother me at all. If people want to get naked, good for them. If others want to enjoy the view, go for it! One such event that I have to admit surprised me was a religious college in Iowa that had a naked soccer tournament every spring.</p>
<p>All that naked matriculation can’t be productive.</p>
<p>^ This is immediately going to the one-liner thread.</p>
<p>“I’m not sure what the attraction is for participants in these events.”</p>
<p>It’s a fantastic rush. At schools where this occurs at midnight the night before exams, it washes all the stress away. Every single time I ran, I had an exam at nine the next morning, and I felt great and aced the exam.</p>
<p>Not sure either what the attraction is for naked runs at night, but I’m not complaining.</p>
<p>Many years ago when I was in college and playing varsity sports, we had an away game a distance away. On the bus coming home late that night we were going thru town. The streets were empty except that just ahead of us was a couple running naked. There was a stop light ahead and the guy sped up to make it across before it changed. The woman didn’t quite make it. So there we were, a bus full of guys and the poor naked woman down on the sidewalk waiting for the light. She was quite beautiful and all she could do at that point was turn and smile. It is an image still burned into my mind and one that brings a smile to my face even today.</p>
<p>D’s friend did the naked bike ride at U Vermont her freshman year. I was pretty surprised that the event existed and that the friend participated. Friend reported it was a “freeing” experience. I think this was right before finals, too. I just looked it up.
<a href=“http://www.worldnakedbikerideburlington.com/faq.html[/url]”>http://www.worldnakedbikerideburlington.com/faq.html</a></p>
<p>Stanford has struggled with how to manage the “full moon on the quad” event for some time. Many femaie students complained of being groped and subject to unwelcome kissing. There is a lot of drinking that seems to go along with public nakedness, and the rowdy behavior is a big problem.</p>
<p>1) Because they can.
2) Yes.
3) I imagine they don’t particularly worry about the coffee.</p>
<p>I suggest we have a CC naked event,kinda like a Flash Mob…at 5 pm,est, everyone get nekkid,run around your computer twice,then put your clothes back on…but remember to turn off your camera on computer. ;)</p>
<p>^^^but wait… you guys always type with your clothes on… really???</p>
<p>"“Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings.”</p>
<p>Who needs Niven, when you have a Longfellow</p>
<p>“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think"</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>If I EVER had enough confidence in my naked body to go naked, I damn well sure would!!</p>
<p>Hanna, you just showed a new side to/of yourself!!</p>
<p>Funny, I remember the 3 weeks of exam prep and the crazy gal screaming in hallway. I wish she had stripped and run outside.</p>
<p>Maybe youth is NOT wasted on the young?</p>
<p>Because the cost of education takes the shirt of your back? And the pants, socks, and underwear too!</p>
<p>As far as the brunch goes, will they have hot buns on the menu?</p>
<p>mmm. Rice has Baker 13. I think that’s right, the 13th of the month they run through campus with nothing but shaving cream on. The runners try to “tag” windows and the others try to spray shaving cream off. Seems to let off steam on a very intensively academic campus.</p>