Editing Streaking (section)

==Definitions and etymology==
The word has been used in its modern sense only since the 1960s. 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" ({{circa|1380}}); this in turn was originally a northern [[Middle English]] variant of ''stretch'' ({{circa|1250}}).<ref>{{OED|streak, v.2}}</ref>

In December 1973, a graduate of [[Carleton College]] in [[Northfield, Minnesota]] wrote to ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine that the term "streaking" was coined because the nude students ran primarily during the winter months of January and February, and "unless one appeared as a streak against the landscape, the Minnesota winter was triumphant and streaker became statue."<ref name=":0">"Letters", ''Time'', 31 December 1973.</ref> The school's newspaper, ''The Carletonian'', used the term "streaking" as early as 1967, but initially in negative terms: "Examples of [Carleton's social problems] are the large number of departing female students, the rise of class spirit, low grades, streaking, destruction, drinking, and the popularity of rock dances."<ref>{{cite news|author=John Mollenkopf|date=26 January 1967|title=Crash Syndrome|newspaper=The Carletonian}}</ref>