Football championship, hockey championship, and now this, what a time to be a 5th year senior.ġ999 would be the last real year for the Naked Mile. We then decided to hit the law library, because why not? Dozens of us stood on top of the long study tables in the law library buck naked singing the fight song as those more studious looked on in amazement, disgust, etc. The pack I was with decided to run into Angell Hall and then around the fishbowl where students were typing away on those colorful little Macs. We all wore backpacks to hold our clothes. In 1998 I was a 5th year senior, and this time I was prepared. The next morning my housemate’s girlfriend (mother of same 2) drove me to UHS to get my elbow x-rayed, and I wasn’t the only “runner” there getting treatment. The night ended with me puking all over myself, bleeding from both knees and elbows, while proudly singing the Victors with hundreds of fellow students in full throat on the steps of the museum of art. I then stumbled and fell again, this time in front of the grad steps on the diag, exactly where I had been when I witnessed my first Naked Mile a few years prior. My housemate (and now a father of 2) held people back while I was on my hands and knees trying to find my clothes. Then as we left South U to head through the arches to the diag I kicked the curb and took a big tumble, my clothes went everywhere. Things were going pretty well for a while. Several times people get so bunched up that you have to walk for a portion of the “run”. Next thing I know I’m barreling down South U holding my clothes in my arms wearing nothing but my shoes. 8 of us, 4 girls 4 guys, undressed in the front yard of a church on Washtenaw, picked up our clothes, then started running.

I was not prepared at all, and very drunk. On the last day of school 1997 a bunch of us were drinking at Touchdown’s (now the Blue Leprechaun) and my graduating best friend convinced us to run the naked mile, it would be a memory of a lifetime he said. I found this short write up on the history of the event, you can find it here. Welp….įor those that aren’t familiar, annually on the last day of school (late April) Michigan students used to run naked at midnight, or after sundown, from the Rock on Washtenaw down South U, through the diag, and then to the Cube at the union (that sounded like Frank the Tank from Old School). I am embarrassed to sing karaoke, I sure as heck would never run naked like that.

Our MosherJordan crew watched from the steps of the grad library. When I witnessed my first naked mile in April 1995 I was just amazed that so many people had the (liquid) courage to run/walk naked through campus for all to see. Tl dr - there was once a thing at Michigan called The Naked Mile.

Naked college event girl