Tufts Pretty Much Guarantees A Cluster Fuck This December

Risque race is too risky, Tufts decides

College head calls an end to traditional Naked Quad Run

By Peter Schworm and Jenna Duncan

Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent / March 15, 2011

 

For decades, bright leaders of tomorrow at Tufts University have found respite from their high-minded pursuits in the noblest of college traditions: streaking around the quad in a madcap dash through a cold December night.

But to the chagrin of nudist revelers everywhere, college administrators have called a stop to the alcohol-fueled antics, saying the annual student celebration has gone too far.

In a sharply worded column published in yesterday’s Tufts Daily, university president Lawrence Bacow said the Naked Quad Run has become an increasingly unruly and dangerous event that puts students’ lives at risk.

“Given that we can no longer manage the run, we cannot allow this ‘tradition’ to continue,’’ Bacow wrote in the student newspaper. “Even if I did not act now, NQR would end some day. The only question is whether a student has to die first. We cannot allow this to happen.’’

But students expressed disappointment at the loss of a cherished tradition they said created many classic college moments, a burst of semester’s end bonding before the final exam crunch.

“There are not that many shared experiences for students,’’ said senior Ben Gittleson, who reported Bacow’s decision for the student newspaper. “This is one of them, and a quirky one at that.’’

Gittleson and other students said most participants, though certainly not all, are sober, and annoyed that inebriated students had ruined the fun.

But Bacow said “alcohol fuels’’ the run, and many students need to drink “to fortify themselves to shed their inhibitions and run in subfreezing conditions.’’
(http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/03/15/risque_race_is_too_risky_tufts_decides/?p1=Local_Links)


Want to pretty much guarantee a drunken shit storm?  Tell college students that they can't do the drunken shit storm that they've been doing for years.  Telling these kids to stop doing this would be like telling a six year old to stop picking his nose.  You don't tell him to stop picking his nose, you just let him get bored with it.  Tell him to stop, and the next thing you know, he's digging straight to his brain.  You know what's going to happen this winter when naked day rolls around?  You're going to have 10,000 kids running ass naked through Somerville, headbutting each other.  This is going to be like end of days shit.  Straight up The Day After Tomorrow.  I put the over/under on hospital visits at a thousand.