No. I think it's been like ten years since they've done it.
Definitely something that needs to come back.
In undergrad from 2003-2005, then it kind of died due to the reasons that have already been stated multiple times on this board.
Was it extremely small in those years? Because if it did exist, I didn't even notice.
Oh, you meant the run....
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I thought the same thing....
Looks like it's a little cold out there, Frank.
it's still pretty big...and the run is well attended too.
You know you wanted it.
That's what he said.
With the cold weather in April, its pretty small
It needs to come back, but it won't. The cops would end that gathering immediately.
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As I remember, it was less the cops and more the creepy internet videographers that put the final nail in the coffin.
There were even regular news stations covering it (presumably with censor graphics) by the end. It had to be stopped by that point (or at least, not always held on the same day of the school year).
there was a guy that looked in his late 60-s with a looooooong white beard and long white hair running in it. It was a hard thing to forget.
Wasn't long enough.
still gives me nightmares. Although on the walk there some HOT,short,brunette stopped right in front of me took all her clother off,stuck them in a book bag and took off! Damn that was nice.
Which was nice.
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Yeah, there were a bunch of creepers there. I went once while I was in high school, and there some guy was videotaping it saying, "Hey everyone, make a path through here. We've gotta let the naked people get through".
He's the Nicholas Cage of straight-to-DVD movies.
Was the Nicolas Cage of straight to DVD movies...
When he goes to cash his paycheck.
You're right, it doesn't work.
Ironic that the original American Pie is set in the state of Michigan.
The screenwriter (Adam Herz) is a U-M grad.
My friend told me I don't understand irony, which was ironic because we were in a train station.
I remember at my Freshman orientation campus tour in 2005 the tour guide was talking about the naked run as we crossed the diag in front of the Grad. She said that it had been banned/halted 2 years (or so) prior because of arrests, etc.
However she of course warned us about not stepping on the M until after our first blue book exams, and explained that the only way to reverse the curse was to run naked from the steps of the grad, to Rackham Auditorium and back... while the clock tower strikes midnight.
Still haven't stepped on the M to this day. I miss Ann Arbor. That is all.
My old roommate at UM did a dance on the M as soon as the tour guide said something about it.
He graduated with honors, is finishing up his dissertation at Cal-Berkeley, and is looking to come back to UM as a professor, for anyone who is wondering whether the curse held up.
When I used to see the tours across the diag every now and then I'd run screaming "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!", tearing by them.
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<br>The look of horror on their faces was worth it.
You can fail your first blue book and still graduate with honors
I accidentally stepped on that M my first term. To date, the lowest grade I got on a Blue Book exam was a B-.
I ran in the first three editions.
Get it right. Bring it back.
Rower?
The current students should hold the run on North Campus. Nobody would ever find it up there!
The runners would probably get winded and flaccid after the first two or three brutal up-and-down hills. No nice flat sidewalks for us on North Campus, no sir!
Ran it once in a revealing Speedo on a cold, cold April evening once......so, not totally naked. I was paranoid about shrinkage, for I had a date later that evening. Met her at the finish line and saw all that I needed to see really *fond memories, stares into space*.
Stop posting from your iPhone while in the feminine hygiene aisle at the pharmacy.....
U came to the crew team (which traditionally started the run along with some other teams) and asked them not to participate. In return they got some favors from the AD. That and all the video cameras killed it.
.. Runners in 2003.
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<br>Sadly 4 of us were captured and thrown naked in the paddywagon. I was not.
One of the huge problems now is that police will probably ticket anyone who actually runs the nude mile these days. I can't speak for everyone, but I know all of my friends would have done it, but for the fact that basically all of my friends had MIP's and weren't willing to take another citation just for one night of tradition.
I think the police crackdown on college kids in general has a lot to do with the fading away of the naked mile... otherwise i assure you there would be no shortage of participants.
At Arizona St the students do what they call the Undie Run. It's pretty much the same thing except all the students are in undergarments and it's a real big thing. The cops at Arizona St are notorious for giving out MIP's because of its rep as a party school, so I think that we would be able to do something like the Undie Run if Arizona St can. What do you think?
Nobody showed up.