In a surprise turnabout University of Seattle Health Department has released five quarantined university streakers, and issued public statements advising other students streak “at least once a month for health. The five students, including Rudolph Ramirez, son of prize-winning astro-physicist Don J.J.Ramirez, had been kept in quarantine since their capture last week.

University Health Department head honcho Helene Hillman had hesitated in holding them hostage any longer until hearings had been held . “I was annoyed by them, and their flagrant display of their…bodies,” she said. “And I had them held because I felt they may have been a health hazard to other students,” she insisted.

But Ms. Hillman, after watching “Streaking Across America: The James Bangman Story,” on PBS, had a change of heart. “Mr. Bangman was basically a couch potato. Streaking was the only thing that got him up and moving; it may well have saved his life,” Hillman marveled. The very next day after viewing the movie, Hillamn issued pro-streaking statements at six and seven o’clock – times when she does her nightly university radio addresses.

I think it’s just boffo,” said freshly released streaker Rudolph Ramirez.

In related news, Seattle Streaker John Scott has launched a blog. His atheist atrocities post adds some much needed level-headedness to the irrational kill-all-religious-folks movement.