Chinese Media

Students run naked to celebrate graduation

By Jia Xu (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2011-06-17 17:34

Graduates from the Orient Science & Technology College of Hunan Agriculture University run nude to celebrate the end of university. [Photo/rednet.cn]

A series of nude photos of graduates celebrating the end of university has caused a buzz on the Internet, the rednet.cn reported Friday.

In the photos, five graduates from Orient Science & Technology College of Hunan Agriculture University (OSTCHAU) ran nude on campus before leaving university.

Netizens on China’s major SNS websites such as Renren, Douban, and Sina’s Weibo (Chinese Twitter) forwarded the post thousands of times. Some were astonished while others praised the courage of running nude in public.

A professor of OSTCHAU acknowledged that the students are 2011 graduates, yet he refused to make any comment saying this is a "personal" thing.

Liu, one of the graduates, admitted to his "crazy nude running" online saying "We run in nude to mark our graduation, to make a memorable thing for our life, don’t panic."