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Before that, to streak in English since 1768 meant 'to go quickly, to rush, to run at full speed', and was a re-spelling of streek: 'to go quickly' (c.1380) this in turn was originally a northern Middle English variant of stretch (c. The word is recorded in its modern sense only since 1973. Time magazine, in December 1973, called streaking 'a growing Los Angeles-area fad' that was 'catching on among college students and other groups.' A letter writer responded, 'Let it be known that streakers have plagued the campus police at Notre Dame for the past decade', pointing out that a group of University of Notre Dame students sponsored a 'Streakers' Olympics' in 1972. Streaking seems to have been well-established on some college campuses by the mid-1960s. Crump was suspended for the academic session, but later went on to become a U.S. Lee later sanctioned streaking as a rite of passage for young Washington and Lee gentlemen. The first recorded incident of streaking by a college student in the United States occurred in 1804 at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) when senior George William Crump was arrested for running nude through Lexington, Virginia, where the university is located. He confirmed that he had accepted a wager of 10 guineas (equal to £735 today) to run naked from Cornhill to Cheapside.

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