The annual Cal State Fullerton Undie Run is coming up soon and let’s face it, the event is pointless and not worth doing.

The undie run will be celebrating its fifth year and if last year is any indication, this year might get out of hand. The number of runners surprisingly reached around 3,000. We can’t get that many students to attend a simple speaking engagement.

The CSUF Undie Run — if you are unfamiliar with it — is where students strip down to their underwear or any costume they can think of and run around campus at night to celebrate the end of the school year.

Students explain that the undie run is a release for the end of the semester when they work so hard to pass finals. Yet, there are thousands of things you can do to get the same benefit that isn’t a hassle for police or the university. Students just like the feeling of doing something taboo or the creepy guys who show up to see women in their underwear.

As far as undie runs go, ours is pretty conservative.

Chapman has theirs the night before, and they actually run down the streets; we stay on campus.

If you want the freeing experience of it, then don’t do the bare minimum — go absolutely crazy with it. Although, I don’t like it, ours just seems lazy.

College undie runs were created you do so years later you can admit to doing something crazy. However, no one is ever really impressed by that information.
Look, the police have to waste time and monitor this thing.

The Orange County Register reported last year’s run had a dozen of officers originally there to make sure nothing gets out of hand and that no damage happens to campus.

However, a young man from the crowd, “leaped onto the hood of a campus police car and ran toward Yorba Linda Boulevard” so reinforcements had to be brought in to get rid of the crowd.

These officers would be better spent patrolling the streets of Fullerton and not babysitting bunch of adults in their underwear.

Luckily, only one student was arrested for running away from officers. Once again, none of that had to happen. Yet, that student had to at least spend one night in jail for acting like an idiot.

And the students who decide to take part in the run are not supported by the campus. Last year, Lea Jarnagin, CSUF dean of students, threatened to impose penalties, “which can include suspension or expulsion” on anyone who violates any law.

Expulsion is not worth a few hours of running around in your underwear or whatever crazy costume you think will get you noticed over the other 3,000 participants in the run.

University of California, Los Angeles ended their undie run back in 2009 due to safety concerns by the adminstration.

According to the UCLA Newsroom, “repeated efforts by administrators, campus police and student leaders to minimize safety risks for students, limit property damage and keep nonaffiliated people from joining in have been unsuccessful.”

The most recent run, in June, was marred by numerous incidents of fighting and vandalism and one robbery, according to campus police, and more than a dozen emergency medical calls were answered by emergency medical services units, most of them alcohol-related.”

Our undie run is not as big as the one at UCLA, but it’s still growing and, if last year is any indication, we are heading down a similar path.

When we lose the undie run, people will complain and moan, but will forget about it after a month or two like it never existed — just like the majority of the students on campus.