Tufts University to end Annual Naked Quad Run

[Ian David]

The university will no longer sanction the annual Naked Quad Run (NQR) due to concerns over participants' safety and the risk of student death, the Daily has learned.

The decades-long tradition, in which students partake in a large-scale, clothing-free sprint around the Res Quad to celebrate the end of fall semester classes, will no longer be permitted to take place, University President Lawrence Bacow revealed to the Daily.

In both interviews with the Daily and an op-ed published today, Bacow said the university can no longer tolerate the event in light of the inherent dangers it presents, particularly the serious risks to student safety from a combination of dangerous levels of alcohol consumption, icy roads and cold temperatures.

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More recently, an increased use of camera phones and cell-phone video has also heightened privacy concerns. In 2007, the Somerville Journal newspaper videotaped the event and posted it online, prompting concerns about publicizing participants' identities. A nudism website published photographs taken at that same run.

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"If this is all Tufts is to students, we have failed them," Bacow said. "Tufts is a hell of a lot more than the Naked Quad Run."



More:
http://www.tuftsdaily.com/bacow-ends-naked-quad-run-1.2512711?pagereq=2

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/universalhub/status/47277591190712320

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. damn.

[CTyankee]

2. It's too bad that a few bad apples have ruined this event. It sounds like it could be fun.

My goodness!

[Kat45]

3. How many "Decades-long" is this tradition? I went to Tufts and

this is the first I've heard of it. I was there in the seventies.

[Obamanaut]

4. That's good. Naked is torture Iv'e been told. nt