First Rain

First Rain

First Rain is an annual event held at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) beginning at Porter College. It is also known as Naked Run and Porter Run. During the first rainfall of the school year, students run naked through the campus, starting at Porter College at 10:10pm, stopping in each college and gathering more runners, before returning to Porter for a drum circle. To be considered "first rain", it must have been raining from at least 7:00pm-10:00pm.

History

First Rain started in fall of 1989, following the weeks of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Students, afraid to sleep inside the Porter College dorms, would sleep outside in the quad. Upon developing an outside lifestyle of playing small games like Simon Says, students dared each other to strip and run around campus naked.cite book
title= Don't Tell the Parents!: a delightful narrative of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll in today's colleges
last= Hendrickson
first= Wayne
year= 1998
publisher= Hearth & Home Productions
location= Mount Hermon, California
pages= 103-106
] Aiming to make this event a yearly tradition as it is at other universities, the students decided on running during the first rain of every school year (since other events, like the first school day or first snow had already been taken by other universities).cite speech
title = Story Time With Wayne
author = Wayne Hendrickson
first = Wayne
last = Hendrickson
authorlink =
date = 2007-05-16
location = Fireside Lounge, Porter College, UCSC
url =
accessdate =
]

Notes

External links

* [http://www2.ucsc.edu/porter/ Porter College home page]


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