University Cross-Country Team Suspended for Wanting to Run Naked
Well, this is a lesson to not go streaking though the quad. A "college tradition" has led to an enter University cross-country team getting suspended. It's hard to imagine a college experience without at least one streaking innocent. However at Rider University in New Jersey, the enter cross-country team was suspended when it was discovered that they intended to run around the track stark nude.
The school police responded to a report that there were unauthorized students on the track on September 5, 2015, according to the New York Daily News. It was then discovered that the team was preparing to disrobe and run around the track nude.
Thought the Rider University has not found that any of the team were "coerced" into participating. This act of the team running nude has been considered a form of hazing. Many people are speaking out, that the "PC Police" are preventing people from just having a good time, and that this is being blow out of proportion.
As a former college athlete myself, we too had a ritual that would now-a-days be considered "hazing," but back then was considered "team building." Heck, we even called it a "Code Red," in honor of the movie "A Few Good Men." When you are a part of a team, and you are having to rely on those around you. Sometime there are acts and rituals that are done to build solidarity and camaraderie. Now I am in no way endorsing such acts as binge drinking, or physical abuse. However act like scavenger-hunts, doing musical skits or even streaking, are all much safer, non-life-threatening alternatives.
I'm just wondering... has anyone scene Frank the Tank lately? Rider police and school officials may want to speak with him.
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