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...Just before midnight, we count down from 10 and run. The countdown is a more energetic version of a New Year’s Eve countdown: contempt for the old and excitement about the new. But Primal Scream is more than a show of displeasure toward the old—those abominable reading period papers—it’s also an act of defiance toward the new—the dread of impending exams. The excitement for participants, and shock for spectators, comes not just from the sight of 500 screaming, naked students, but from our symbolic bird...
...first ran Primal Scream as an anonymous freshman, before I gained ten pounds and started a sex blog that turned my attractiveness into a matter of public debate. Yet despite multiple qualms last Friday night, I somehow found myself wearing nothing but sneakers among equally unclothed peers. As the chanting began, I took a deep breath and started to reassure myself that I looked fine...
...Harvard students are not the most sexually adventurous bunch. But the conventional wisdom runs that sexual repression takes a biannual backseat for Primal Scream. Many of my friends remarked that the public nudity made them feel as though “we went to a real college...
...Primal Scream has remarkably little to do with hedonistic urges. It’s a further desexualization of an already desexualized place. I hear at Stanford, one mid-trimester tradition entails an hour-long make-out session between strangers under the full moon. Now that’s what I call primal...
...Primal Scream, like so many other features of Harvard life, is filled with tradition. And symbolic traditions—ranging from the state (anthems, flags), to religious creeds (Mecca, Stars of David)—keep institutions alive...