Veritasathon

Don't be shocked if you bump into someone running laps around the Yard this weekend. The jogger is not a straggler from this week's Boston Marathon, but a participant in a 347-mile relay which is sponsored by a student meditation group.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Sri Chinmoy Meditation Group will run the marathon relay in order to "salute Harvard's spirit of excellence in its pursuit of verities," said group organizer Adam Fishman '84 yesterday. He added that the 347 laps signify the number of years Harvard has pursued the goal of truth.

Atleast 10 undergraduates and alumni who are affiliated with the group will take part in the relay that follows a circular course through the Yard and Law School. The race will begin tonight in front of the John Harvard statue and will end sometime Sunday night.

"It seems like a great event because it will inspire self-transcendence in the participants and make people go beyond what they think are their human limitations," said group founder Steven C. Schecter '80.