Undie Run in Westwood

At midnight on the Wednesday of finals week, it has been a recent UCLA tradition for a thousand students to strip to their underwear and gather at the corner of Landfair Avenue and Gayley Avenue. They run to Glenrock Avenue and Levering Avenue, making lots of noise, then run back. Today's Daily Bruin reports, though, that this week's Undie Run may get a visit from the Fun Police. Seems that at last quarter's event, some cars got climbed on, windows got broken and inebriated students fell and scraped their knees. Campus police now consider the Undie Run a "safety problem" and there's a committee studying ways to clamp down. An unsigned Bruin editorial says the concerns are valid and calls for everyone to just take it easy:

People are happier with their pants off. It might not be scientifically proven, but the quarterly Undie Run in Westwood is definitely evidence that supports the statement....

Students should appreciate the event for what it is -- a chance to break social norms -- and not as a reason to break car windows and damage property....We need to preserve this tradition so students can enjoy it in years to come -- unlike the previous finals week tradition of Midnight Yell, which was banned due to students' destructive behavior and widespread damage of property.

Prediction: Live at 11 pm on 2, 4 and 7.

Also in the Bruin: A tribute to former professor and UC president David Saxon, who died last week.