Student Stuntmen

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He has reason to tread lightly. In January, after Indiana University's daily newspaper ran a photo of a traceur standing on top of a school arch, the university's police department served him with a written notice that if he did this stuff on campus again, he would be arrested. Although there are technically no laws against peripatetic back flipping, IU's Captain Jerry Minger says there are rules in place to protect school property as well as personal safety. "What if somebody came up with some kind of French term for dodging traffic?" Minger asks. "Dodge le traffique is great as long as I don't get hit by a car."