Spring quarter’s Undie Run takes place despite lack of official university sponsorship

They ebbed and flowed, some sporting bikinis and others in boy shorts. Each time the crosswalk’s little white man was illuminated, a fresh mob of sprinters haphazardly made its way through the Strathmore Drive and Gayley Avenue intersection while chants of “U-C-L-A” and boisterous 8-claps echoed in the midnight air.

Pedestrians need protection

Most students can relate to the stress of standing at the bottom of the Saxon Steps, rapidly looking both ways on Gayley Avenue and toward the goal of Landfair Avenue, waiting for oncoming traffic to cease. At all hours of the day and night, students make the crossing from the Saxon Steps to the apartments. This is not the only poorly designed element of our campus that presents a danger to students. With the rise in the issuance of jaywalking tickets to students, campus designers and university police should realign their priorities to reflect increased prevention, rather than the punishment, for unsafe transportation corridors in the Westwood area.