Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi
We continue our un-coverage of the college student streaking craze in the spring of 1974, in alphabetical order by state.
Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, March 1974 (above). The accompanying article quotes a spectator: "I like watching because it's the first time I've seen guys not ashamed to look at another guy's body."
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, March 1974. These streakers remind us that streaking goes back at least as far as Lady Godiva.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 1974.
More University of Michigan streakers.
A University of Michigan streaker with a bullhorn.
And here he is again.
From the University of Michigan student newspaper, the Michigan Daily, March 13, 1974.
A week later, another Michigan Daily article. The local bookstore offered 50% off to buyers willing to get naked, and 50 students took them up on the offer.
Moorhead State College (now Minnesota State University, Moorhead), Moorhead, Minnesota, on March 11, 1974.
Not all places were so tolerant of streaking. On March 7, 1974, at the University of Southern Mississippi, six men were arrested while streaking past a women's dorm. The streakers in this photo seem to have escaped into the woods.
More streaking to come.
2 comments:
Did Lady Godiva actually go naked? The story of protesting her husband's tax policy seems like something that could be done privately.
Historically, she lived around the time of the Norman Conquest, and there is no record that she did any such thing. The legend of her riding naked dates to the 13th century, so perhaps I should have said that stories of streaking go back as far as Lady Godiva.
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