Tufts University president ends naked student run

(CBS/AP) MEDFORD, Mass. - The president of Tufts University in Massachusetts has put an end to the student tradition of running around nude just before exams near the end of the fall semester.

President Lawrence Bacow said in an op-ed piece Monday in the student newspaper, The Tufts Daily, that the Naked Quad Run has become too dangerous because of excessive alcohol consumption, slippery sidewalks and dangerously low temperatures that put students' health at risk.

He also noted that police consider it illegal.

Bacow referred to the run as "carnage." He says two students who participated in December were hospitalized with high blood-alcohol levels.

The run dates to the 1970s.

Disappointed students say it was a way to blow off steam at the end of the semester and that a drunken few ruined it for the majority.