The Slot
5 February 2016
Ellie Shechet
[M]ultiple classmates who asked for anonymity
recounted Cruz participating in the “Nude Olympics,” a (now defunct) Princeton
tradition in which members of the sophomore class got drunk and ran around
campus sans clothing during the first snow of the year. According to several
classmates, none of whom were firsthand witnesses, Cruz was said to have run
the wrong way and was later seen naked and banging against the window of a
locked dorm in an attempt to gain entrance.
Numerous as the secondhand accounts were, we were
unable to confirm the nude-lockout incident. However, we did establish that the
following spring, Cruz, who was a member of the Campus Safety Committee,
appeared in at least five separate issues of the Daily Princetonian as a
staunch opponent of the concept of locked entryways.
