College Streaking - Part 39

University of Michigan Naked Mile

The Naked Mile run at the University of Michigan started in 1986 with a group of 15 male student athletes celebrating the last day of classes of the winter term.  Most people thought it was a fraternity prank.  Year by year the event gradually grew in size, still limited to male runners.  Above, a photo of the Naked Mile in 1996.

Above, in 1997, a student spins the Cube, a sculpture of a cube 8 feet on a side, set on one corner in such a way that it can be rotated with a gentle push.

In 1998 a naked student mounts the corner at the top of the Cube.

Naked Mile runners in 1999.  By 1999, there were 800 runners, and 30% of them were women, attracting a huge crowd of nearly 10,000 spectators as well as national media outlets.

Here are extracts from a video of the 1999 Naked Mile.  The original video concentrated 99% on the female runners, despite the fact that 70% of the runners were male, but I was able to find a few runners with penises in the video.

The event's notoriety and large number of female runners led to harassment and assaults.  In 2001 the university cracked down and banned the event.  There were only a few dozen runners that year, including the guy above.

The police arrested some of the runners for indecent exposure, above.

For the next few years, the event was a shadow of its former self.  Above, runners in 2003.  Unfortunately, frontal nudity is censored in the photo.

In 2004, some students tried staging an "Alt Naked Mile" a day early, above, to try to avoid police interference and keep the tradition going, but it was a last gasp effort.  That was the last Naked Mile run.

We end with a short undated video of the Naked Mile back in its heyday.  It was good while it lasted.