Thread: 100 students run naked at university

Members of a fraternity at the University of the Philippines held their annual ritual of running naked on campus six months early on Wednesday to celebrate the state-run school's centennial anniversary. Hundreds of cheering students lined the main campus avenue, jostling for positions with their digital and cell phone cameras.

The "Oblation Run" — named for the university's iconic symbol of a naked man with outstretched arms that symbolizes his selfless offering of himself to the nation — started in 1977 as a gimmick by the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity to promote the screening of a movie about oppressed plantation workers called "Naked Hero." The film had been banned by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Since then, the fraternity has used the stunt to make political statements, from raising AIDS awareness to demanding the resignation of the Philippine president, said Armand Padilla, a fraternity alumnus and organizer of the centennial run.

The naked runners, who wore golden masks and wrapped T-shirts around their heads to hide their identities, offered roses to scores of giggling female students who they took their pictures as they jogged about half a mile from the student center to the Oblation statue in front of the university's administration building.

lol this reminds me of American Pie - naked mile.

btw the person who put the white circles must have had a lot of work to do.

This world is getting crazy, really crazy

Naked Heros ...but why they are hiding their identities....

Originally Posted by mit

Naked Heros ...but why they are hiding their identities....

you mean their faces or their.... haha

That's a joke, they are showwing off their jijees but covering their faces, what a laugh.:Cheer

Anybody like to join the run next year? LOL

I just HATE this thing, There is NO point at all in getting naked in front of Media and protest/celebrate.

I have seen many protests wherein people get naked and protest. I think they are the most stupid people who just expose themselves for something which will NEVER change by getting them naked.

How many of you agree with me??

Originally Posted by jani

I just HATE this thing, There is NO point at all in getting naked in front of Media and protest/celebrate.

I have seen many protests wherein people get naked and protest. I think they are the most stupid people who just expose themselves for something which will NEVER change by getting them naked.

How many of you agree with me??

I agree with you.
They should know being naked in public lacks decency.

Jani they just do this to get attention and nothing else.

May be people are running out of ideas; so they are getting back to the basics

These peoples are really idiots, I say. Now, what they have achieved after doing this...All Rubbish...

I thing politics is behind this.

Originally Posted by pawan

I thing politics is behind this.

no doubts in this

They made a movie about that!