UCLA junior Jasmine Martinez rises above the crowd as students prepare for the 2008 Undie Run. The tension-reducing event, in which students make a midnight run across campus in their underwear, has become a finals week tradition at UCLA. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
The colorful UCLA Undie Run begins at the corner of Gayley Avenue and Strathmore Drive at the edge of the Westwood campus. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
Undie Run participants display a variety of running gear and levels of exposure to a cold night’s air. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
The Undie Run is designed to give UCLA students a chance to loosen up during finals week, and to prepare them for careers as Mexican wrestlers. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
The definition of underwear is broadly interpreted by official Undie Run rules. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
Making parents and university officials proud, many UCLA students made the Undie Run a prerequisite for final exams. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
After the Undie Run, it’s back to the books for UCLA students. Some will also get dressed, and news photographers will have to find news to photograph. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
UCLA students taking part in a quarterly 2006 Undie Run at the corner of Landfair and Gayley in Westwood. (Spencer Weiner / LAT)
UCLA students run down Gayley street in The Undie Run. (Spencer Weiner / LAT)
Students pile onto the Bruin Bear Statue on campus after an Undie Run. (Spencer Weiner / LAT)
Students who participated in a 2006 Undie Run dance at Bruin Walk after the midnight run. (Spencer Weiner / LAT)
Participants take off on the midnight jaunt.. (Spencer Weiner / LAT)
At least one participant in the Undie Run considered a cowboy hat “underwear.” (Spencer Weiner / LAT)
