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Streaking is the quintessential act of non-violent resistance. When you have thirty pages to write before noon tomorrow, or when a few hours of examination determine the difference between medical school and academic probation, streaking is the ultimate affirmation of individual power. Against our fears of failure and the constraints of an institution to which we have traded our money and our well-being, we streakers assert our fleshy, warm-blooded freedom. From the roaring din and flapping flesh of the midnight hour, we conjure forth the revolutionary spirit, to remind ourselves that it still exists behind the redbrick...

Author: By Joel B. Pollak, | Title: Running Proud | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

...socially undesirable sophomores, juniors and seniors had lost their place of instant acceptance and belonging, but at least the Major heard the unrestrained roar of all first-years in conversation morning, noon and night. He could rejoice with the triumphant undergrad whose well-flung butter pat hit his relatively inexpensive ceiling. As the decades went by, and the voices of women and minority students began to contribute to the din, I like to think the old boy was grinning under that mustache...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Parting Shot | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...Swimming vs. Pittsburgh, noon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

Track and Field vs. Cornell/Brown, noon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

...Volleyball vs. East Stroudsberg, noon (at Concordia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

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