“We’re going streaking through the quad.”

At UCLA students have a quarterly exam tradition (they have four school terms a year) called the “undie run.” On the third night of final examinations students go for a run on a route near campus dressed pretty much only in their underwear as a kind of exam stress relief.

The traditioon began in spring quarter of 2002 and replaced an older tradition called the “midnight yell.”

Undie Run may succeed Midnight Yell for finals stress relief Daily Bruin 18 Mar 2003

Strap on your running shoes and strip off your clothes – students will be running the streets Wednesday of finals week in nothing but their underwear for what creator Eric Whitehead hopes to be come a quarterly Undie Run.

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The event started in spring quarter of last year when third-year theater student Whitehead and some friends tried to participate in Midnight Yell, a UCLA tradition where students scream at the stroke of midnight to release some of that pre-finals stress. Whitehead and his friends were quickly stopped by police officers.

They didn’t have anything like that at Waterloo when I was a lad; they don’t now either.