The buzz surrounding the traditional last-day-of-classes nude streak near the University of Michigan campus is barely a murmur this year, according to the Ann Arbor News.

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Authorities told the paper that the event scheduled for Wednesday night will be a nonevent.

"It's been really low-key this year, so we don't know really what to expect," Ann Arbor police Lt. Michael Logghe said. "Based on what happened last year, we found the crowd still came, but there weren't the runners of past years."

The infamous milelong run had attracted hundreds of clothes-shedding students in the past, and had attracted thousands of gawkers, the paper reported.

Police began cracking down three years ago in response to swelling crowds and the dangers it posed -- including photos of naked runners showing up on the Internet.

Authorities promised to arrest nude runners for indecent exposure. Last year, only a handful of people were taken into custody, Logghe told the paper.

U-M spokeswoman Julie Peterson said the university ran an effective campaign warning students of the dangers. "We decided let it die a natural death, so to speak," she said.

While the university didn't run ads or send out community e-mails this year, it did meet privately with student groups, according to the paper.

The city and U-M plan to have increased police presence in the area tonight.