Why do colleges host naked events ?

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<p>bookworm, I’m sure there are pictures out there somewhere, but I don’t want to run for office anyway.</p>

<p>sujormik, you might have been surprised. I found that confidence follows nudity rather than the other way around. Yes, it’s scary to throw off that bathrobe for the first time, but once you do, you realize that no one is nearly as interested in judging your body as you are. (Unless, perhaps, you’re Halle Berry.) It feels great!</p>

<p>I’ve never gone skydiving, but I guess the adrenaline rush of this “plunge” is the same sort of sensation. I ran in a Harvard ski cap and my Air Jordans, but the only place I felt cold was on my hands. The next year I added gloves to the ensemble.</p>

<p>The Crimson made a video on what seems to have been an unseasonably warm winter night two years ago, so you can get a hint of what it’s like. Don’t worry, it’s censored. Unfortunately, they did not include shots of the band playing “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard,” which is a big part of the atmosphere. Note guy covered in moles, person in wheelchair, etc.; they’re not all perfect bodies. [Harvard</a> Students Run Naked for Primal Scream Tradition | Flyby | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/you-tube-video/2009/12/13/primal-scream/]Harvard”>Harvard Students Run Naked for Primal Scream Tradition | Flyby | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

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<p>Hey, they are only bodies we are born with. What is the big deal here.</p>

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<p>Surely there are more of us parents here besides Hanna and yours truly that streaked in the 70’s. At least I had the decency to wear a full face ski mask and ski boots, although I found out really quick that the boots sure slowed down my getaway. :(</p>

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<p>That’s the problem. It may have been nothing but good fun in decades gone by, but with the advent of the internet and with digital cameras everywhere, chances are good that pictures you in all your glory will start appearing on-line before you even have a chance to put your pants back on. You don’t have to intend to run for public office for that to be an unfortunate development. If you don’t believe me try googling on “college naked run” or some such search term and see what pops up.</p>

<p>I suppose one advantage is that your naked body at age 20 will probably look the best it ever did or ever will. But that may not be sufficient reason to enshrine it for a billion people to look at forever.</p>

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<p>I’ve never met Hanna, but based on her age inferred from her time in college, I’m guessing Hanna was not yet born back when “streaking” was popular in the early to mid 70s.</p>

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<p>Because public nudity is taboo outside the bubble.</p>

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<p>^Yep. Pure and simple.</p>

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<p>We all came to this world naked and will be gone naked…What is the big deal?</p>

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<p>Remember the F-R-E-E-Zing cold weather Chicago has had last year? I asked my son how they coped. He told me he and a bunch from his dorm were “challenged” to go outside for five (long) minutes ‘in all their glory’. Not sure he joined the crowd, but I suspect he did. I guess that’s one way to “say HA!” to winter.</p>

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<p>Limabeans, it isn’t an NU experience for a guy unless his buddies “lake” him at least once!</p>

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<p>You are correct about Baker 13, Singersmom, but they also include the 31st of the month too, which makes the Halloween NOD (Night of decadence) pretty… creative.</p>

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<p>UChicago cancelled the annual naked run this January because it was well below zero, but it is a fine annual tradition. They also have the Lascivious Ball, where the goal is to wear as little as possible without being naked. I hear it is… interesting.</p>

<p>Tufts also has had a naked quad run.</p>

<p>I don’t ask, they don’t tell. :)</p>

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<p>^^countingdown: </p>

<p>Before Pres. Bacow left Tufts last year, he abolished the Naked Quad run. So no more!</p>

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<p>Yeah, I heard about it from S2. Lots of unhappy people, and it turned out to be the subject of the April 1st Tufts Daily parody issue. ;)</p>

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<p>We were visiting Pomona College last year. I was waiting outside the cafeteria at lunchtime for my son and suddenly a group of a dozen young men and women began frolicking naked in the fountain, some bending over and climbing. I was speechless.</p>

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<p>^^That sounds a little more impromptu rather than an “event.”</p>

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<p>YK, life’s short. Might as well do that stuff when you’re young and good-looking! I think I would just laugh if I were on a tour and saw that happen.</p>

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<p>It is tradition to ‘streak the lawn’ prior to graduation a UVa. The difference between streaking and public indecency is pace :wink: (remember to run, and no your friends are not going to hold your clothes and give them back)…this is the advise given to students by the Dean of Students. Pretty sound IMHO.</p>

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<p>Anyone remember streakers? Perhaps a 1970’s phenomenon.</p>

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<p>LOL David Sedaris essay on his visit to a nudist colony.</p>

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<p>PRinceton used to have nude olympics but they were outlawed also presumably due to injuries as it occurred at first snow (I believe) </p>

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