Streaking at Auburn, 1. The War Eagle Reader. He needed the money. Auburn needed the thrill. When I was 1. 4 years old, I found a dirty book on the shelves in the front room of my childhood home in the Birmingham suburbs, alongside Anna Karenina, Robert Ludlum thrillers, Women Who Run with the Wolves, and several copies of Gone With The Wind. It was Sunday afternoon. On page 5. 4, in five separate black and white photos, eight people were pictured naked, seven of them from behind, one from in front . Covering most of page 5. Adidas running naked through a crowd of students. Mom laughed, quickly turned the page, and said . Once upon what was supposed to be a more conservative time, my parent. I looked at the guy, and I looked at the people looking at the guy. And I decided then and there that I would write a book about the streaking that took place at Auburn University in the late winter and early spring of 1. It just seemed like too good of a story. Glomerata, pg. 5. Streaking: Faster than a speeding bullet; More powerful than Dean Cater. Able to dodge Chief Dawson in a single bound; Look! The first one sped down the concourse at 1. I told him he would know me by my yearbook. I pulled out the Glom. Patty Hearst Kidnapped Heiress Story To Be Fox 2000 Film; Jeffrey Toobin Book Sells With Directed by Jack Clayton. With Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black. A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses. From Queen Archives: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon, Interviews, Articles, Reviews. Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey, John Henshaw, Anthony Flanagan. A rookie Yorkshire journalist sets out to solve the case of a child. Big Star was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in 1974. In May of 1974, Bruce Springsteen was still just one of hundreds of young rock musicians hoping to make it big. His early work, and particularly his performances on. He pulled out his glasses. I flipped back and forth between the two pages and told him again how I had figured out it was him. He congratulated me (again), but reiterated that he wasn. The day dawned overcast, with mid- morning temperatures of 5. AOPi Valentine. The windows were rolled up, but you could see in. Some remember the ski mask as orange. Whatever color it was, it was already wet with sweat (and it would dry in a Lambda Chi trophy case). Somewhere in this photo of folks celebrating an Auburn football victory at Toomer’s Corner in 1. It was going to be around 2. He was going to sprint the whole way. He was a sophomore in Aviation Management. He was on a Naval ROTC scholarship. He could not get caught. He had already decided that if did he get, caught he was also going to be charged with resisting arrest. The driver, his fraternity brother, held the back of his robe. Someone on the roof of Haley Center shouted, . Auburn needed the thrill. He took off. Streak takes a sip of coffee. The Mastermind spent the rest of the day taking up donations (Streak had around $1. Friday night. All Streak had to do was show up. He leans forward. The young adults of Auburn University clapped and yelled and laughed and gawked and got out of his way. One of them took a picture. Glomerata, pg. Rheta Grimsley (of course it was Rheta Grimsely) writes a story on this new fad called streaking in which she describes a hypothetical nude dash across the Haley Center concourse all the way to Parker Hall, and 2. The timing and execution implied not just prompting, but collusion, if not outright orchestration. Even Mom remembered it that way. Mom was on The. Plainsman staff her freshman year; Rheta, a junior, was the features editor. She was just looking for ideas for the paper. It certainly seemed entirely irrelevant to Auburn. Auburn students birthday suiting it across a campus that had only recently discontinued the policy requiring coeds to wear raincoats over their P. E. To her surprise, he agreed . So she got one. How she got it is one of the many ironies of the fad. They did pay someone to streak . They took him behind the coliseum, told him to strip, told him to run, and gave him $2. But the photo looked too real, too recognizable, too indecently exposed, too illegal. So they cut it and cropped it and made it look fake . Suddenly it looked as if Rheta was, as one Plainsmanstaffer put it, . Auburn students are not. She inspired them, described them (. And a lot of them remember why. A year ago, Rheta spoke at a symposium on the history of Alabama journalism held at the AU Hotel and Conference Center. I walked up and said hello. She asked how mom was. She asked how the book was coming. After her presentation, she took questions from the audience. A woman raised her hand. Mom told me that when we were looking at the Glom and nothing can change her mind. But we were close. The fad (as a fad) started in Los Angeles in late 1. Florida State in late January, then Maryland, Washington State, a few others. On Thursday night, March 7, pandemonium broke loose with . It was hard to tell who was more excited, the streakers (including girls . The craziness continued throughout that weekend. Full scale, baby. Former Auburn Athletics Director David Housel, then an Auburn journalism professor, was on the concourse the morning of February 1. He puts the photos he brought to show me (but won. He leans back in his chair, puts his feet on his desk, and smiles. Possible “Big Blue” sighting. And she would come out and be one of hundreds of women streaking out of girls dorms and run around the loop. But contrary to some reports, there were plenty of coed participants (apparently enough for a legendary serial streaker to distinguish herself from the pack . And naked dudes were everywhere. Suddenly, at a university whose administrative policy toward its students was still predicated almost entirely on gender distinction, the biggest differences between boys and girls began to spill out of gym shorts and halter- tops onto the ROTC Drill Field (and famously . And Auburn students weren. They took pictures. There. Ragan trying (and failing) to block the entrance into a dorm. The two completely naked male students, posing for the camera with their arms around each other. And there are several never- before- seen angles of the famous blonde from page 5. Glom, who by most accounts was the first Auburn coed to streak (but who, so she said on the phone, had no idea what I was talking about, goodbye). A week later, in a memo to Auburn Dean of Women Katharine Cater regarding incidents of streaking, specifically the scene he witnessed at the girls dorms, Assistant Dean of Students Drew Ragan wrote: . He overhears strangers talking about it at football games. He denies it at reunions. Right now I have the total of people who were there up to around 1. Auburn- Alabama game in 1. At least five mouths are wide open. At least three of the girls are covering their mouth with their hand. And you see pure shock: right in front of him, closer to him than anyone, is a group of seven girls, their backs turned, shunning the indecency. Girls that had never seen a naked man. Girls that were sent to Auburn to keep it that way. But that one right there. The fact that there are rules for girls to be in the dorms at Auburn when there weren? I mean, is Dean Cater? You know, as a student, you could give a rip. Did I ever think I was a part of any kind of revolution? She was also the chairwoman of the Associated Women Students Disciplinary Council. He said it was nothing. Two weeks later, when she figured it out, she broke up with him.)Streak and fan, Jan. Ski mask is artist’s rendering.). Auburn needed the thrill. Thankfully, his wife thought it was important that he talk with me, that it was an important part of Auburn history. That it just seemed like too good of a story. I think he agreed. We say our . If you have any streaking (or Dean Foy or Dean Cayer or Punt, Bama, Punt) stories you’d like to share, please feel free to get in touch: . There will be a book. It takes more than 2. The War Eagle Reader. If you like what we do, and you. Thanks! Related: My first meeting with Dean Foy..
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