Run around campus naked and you'll end up on YouTube

It's a given, still.... the Somerville Journal got complaints when it posted footage of the Tufts U. annual nude run. Editor-in-chief Greg Reibman says: "For students to be shocked that newspapers would show up and take photos, I don't see how they can be so naive in this day and age" when cell-phone cameras and video recorders are ubiquitous. (Romenesko)

Comments

[Cherie]

If they all look like the guy in the picture I'm THERE next year...woo hoo! Nell, ya wanna do a road trip?

[Sean, Torrington CT]

I figured that was kind of the point of running around campus naked...

[chris]

::sighs:: i miss colleger so much

[chris]

::sighs:: i miss college so much

[chris]

oops

[Cherie]

We get it Chris...you REALLY REALLY miss college.
You know...you dont have to be in college to go streaking!

[chris]

lol yea good point cherie...

[KC]

There are people who think it was rude
To post film of those folks in the nude.
But they chose to be there;
Why the heck should they care?
And besides, half the runners were stewed.

[Soo]

If I'm running around nude on campus, and it doesn't end up on youtube, I'm gonna be so pissed. Why else does anyone do that, except for the notoriety?

[Nathan Ridge]

Before, there was Cable in the Classroom. Now there's YouTube on Campus.

I bet they thought in their spirited romp in the name of tradition, that they were expressing themselves. Then again, they could've just been hoping to catch a breeze...

[kevin]

The filming was totally from the back, and if you can identify someone that way, then you know him or her very, very, very well.

Some people just need to complain.

[Dee]

wheee! did any one read the comments with the article? Nice opinions--almost as nice as the ones here. A number of them say that photos & film is verboten, but please--an event like this? I would say at least 95% of people I know would have wanted a visual souvenir.

And I'm surprised there wasn't at least one complaint about the dude with the Israeli flag wrapped about his waist. Maybe I just didn't read far enough!

[chris]

nice poem.... god you people make my work day easier

[ashley]

i dont know anything bout college im not even in college!!lol!!!!i want to go to be an animal cop!!and later for csi and a proffesional cheff

[The Asshole Guy]

Step 1. Run around naked

Step 2. ????

Step 3. Profit

[yucca]

Funny...I was running around you tube and ended up on campus?

[S.O.]

Cameras sort of change the nature of this kind of exposure. It's kind of funny that on one hand we see more and more explicitness in the media (and Christmas parades?), but both onlookers and school admin's are making a bigger deal of it at the same time. Too many cameras and now the admin saying they'll cancel it.

Next time Tufts students, run with ski masks!

[NellAgain]

Purdue had a naked winter run for many many years. They tried to hit the coldest night of the year and the participants were mainly from the Quad (a all male venerable, i.e. falling apart) dormitory.

There were these folks with squirt guns.

Then one day they gotta a new U prez and he was medical man who feared they might freeze their weenies. He banned it; there was protest (from students and alums); his offer of compromise --a run in the field house, in running shorts.

Sad to see these traditions be run off.

[Soo]

Oh, for the love of twinkies, the last thing I want to see is a gathering of shivering, naked men, running around a freezing campus. All that would be visible would be some serious blue buns, and where's the fun in that?

[A.V.]

"If they all look like the guy in the picture I'm THERE next year...woo hoo! Nell, ya wanna do a road trip?"

Sounds like she likes "crack".

[serafina]

GO JUMBOS!! (Yes, the Tufts sports teams are named after Jumbo the circus elephant, struck down before his prime by a locomotive and then stuffed and displayed in the Biology building...but I digress).

I went to Tufts and watched four hilarious Naked Quad Runs in my time -- mostly dudes, most with costumes and a wicked buzz on, many over ice and snow and sometimes ending with a slip or stumble. Just added to the hilarity. This one old dorm sponsors it, the seniors all get liquored up, and voila -- a 45-second thrill for the whole school. I *do* remember people snapping photos of their friends, but I can understand the local press (and the Somerville Journal could not BE more local) has a different feeling.

I teach a class on intellectual property at Tufts now, so we talk about filesharing and publicity rights and YouTube a lot, and you would not believe the level of naivete. Even though there are stories in the media every day about cyberbullying, getting Dooced, and so forth, and the kids are very tech savvy when it comes to, say, posting underage drinking pics to Facebook, they don't seem to realize that bits (of data) are forever.

I say again, GO JUMBOS! :D

[KC]

I sort of misread a word in serafina's post above, but I find all you need to do is move the second letter over five places to the right to get what I mistook it for, very apropos to this story: "filesharing" becomes "fleshairing."

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