Inden. wrote:
Was that when Princeton was still a all male, all gay campus?
kudzurunner wrote:When I arrived at Princeton in the fall of 1975, their tradition of streaking was alive and well. Generally during reading period and final exam period at the end of the term, people would semi-spontaneously drop clothes and dash around one of the dorm courtyards. I believe they ran across campus once or twice. There may have even been a streaking session into and out of Firestone Library one snowy winter evening.
Princeton first admitted women in 1966, so no.
The tradition is just to streak through one specific courtyard, but obviously the more brave souls added on.
I've spoken with alums who were in the last class to do it ('01 I believe) and they said by then it had started to get to the point that couples would have sex in the open in the courtyard because all the spaces covered by bushes were taken. Apparently someone got pictures of the daughter of a public figure doing the deed in the bushes and that was part of what prompted the university to shut the event down.
Michael Maag mentioned "birthday bean fields" in a Flotrack interview a few years back:
http://www.flotrack.org/article/1097-michael-maag-kwik-e