They're NOT going streaking anymore!

So Tufts has this tradition called the Naked Quad Run (it's so popular it even has an acronym - NQR) where basically students get naked run around the Quad (pretty self explanatory) to celebrate the end of fall semester classes.

And they've decided to put an end to it. The same year Mattera gets accepted.

Why would they do such a thing? Because the President of the University is afraid someone might die. Dead serious. It's all fun and games at Tufts until some naked freshman kicks the bucket.

How do you go from running nude to dying? When you drink heavily before the event. I'd think most spectators would want to drink heavily after seeing some people who've put on way more than the "Freshman 15," but last year a few students were taken to the ER with BAC of.3! That's almost 4 times the legal limit for driving.

Obviously the administration wouldn't be happy with an event such as this, and they tried to get rid of it back in '02. When they decided to keep it, they tried to make things safer for the runners by putting up barriers and even sanding the course to avoid people falling. Unbelievable.

Frank Ricard just shed a little tear.

Quote of the day from these articles: "...come up with a plan to create a new campus−wide winter event that will engage the larger community" - I guess size does matter.