Our 40-year old professor tackled one of the naked streakers who invaded his classroom

In my four years of studies at Indiana University I had never seen a streaker. This all changed during my second-to-last final senior year. As I was writing some BS for a short essay question, all of a sudden there is yelling at the front of the lecture hall.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH"!

I look up from the page and to everyone's surprise, there are two naked guys running up the aisle. They are totally naked except for large aviator sunglasses and the words "school sucks" written across their chest. As the streakers start making their way up the aisle, the professors manages to tackle one of them! Meanwhile, the other streaker escapes out the back door, leaving his wingman behind to fend for himself. The class is cracking up in laughter watching this naked guy try and escape from our 40-year old professor.

The professor, probably sick of the guy's johnson brushing up against him in the struggle to subdue him, asks for some help. No students rise to the challenge, eventually AI's reluctantly arrive to cover the streaker and hold him down. Once the streaker had finally given up and exhausted himself, the professor announces, "everybody get back to work, there's nothing to see here."

Drawn between writing about the uniform crime report or watching the ensuing struggle of the streakers grand escape, most people chose the former. About 10 minutes later a female member of IUPD's finest comes over, cuffs him, and covers the streaker with a green blanket. Although the professor rubbed some students the wrong way earlier in the year with his strict rules on cell phone use, he ended up being a huge bad ass. You have to feel some sympathy for the streaker though. Not only was he abandoned by his streaker friend, but he was taken down by a professor double his age. The following is an e-mail the professor sent to the class following the incident:

Hi Everyone -

You will be happy to hear that I received a call from Coach Hep last night asking me to come out for the football team in the fall. I let him know, however, that in reality I just got pummeled and was lucky enough to wrap the guy up and take him down with me. Besides, the guy was naked, not in helmet and pads...though trust me, I really DID wish he had something on when we were flailing about.

Anyway, while it was hardly my fault, I apologize to everyone for the incident. Many of you think I am a little tightly wound, but rest assured that if the guys had been doing the same thing but running outside across campus or something similar, I would have just pointed and laughed like everyone else at the end-of-the-year prank. You can understand, however, that a very serious line was crossed when these guys invaded the classroom, naked, during a final exam...and that an even more serious line was crossed when the person tried to run over a professor who tried to stop him.

Again, my apologies. At least you have a crazy story to tell all your friends. Good luck on any final exams you may have, and have a great summer.