New Mexico Daily Lobo
URL: http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2010/02/beloved_nudist_forced_to_move
Current Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:39:54 -0600
Don Schrader puts on his jacket inside his sparse Silver Avenue apartment on Wednesday. Schrader, who has lived in this apartment for 22 years, has to move out by the end of the month since the owners will be renovating and selling the apartments.
Don Schrader eats mostly fresh vegetables because he said cooked food is unhealthy for the body. In the jars to the left, he mixed vegetables and other food together to create his morning smoothie. In an entire year he said he spent little more than $1,000 on food.
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Beloved nudist forced to move
Don Schrader’s apartment is every bit as unique as he is.
The 12-by-14-foot apartment, which he will vacate at the end of February, displays Schrader’s history in wall-to-ceiling decoration of pictures from his life, notes on his methodologies, cards from friends and published letters to the Weekly Alibi.
The apartment complex where Schrader lives, on Silver Avenue, is being remodeled and sold by the owners. Schrader has lived in the apartment for 22 years.
“It’s like a museum of my life, of my memories,” he said. “I have deep roots here. … If these walls could talk they would tell of the times I had sex with José here — as well with other men — of the many friends who have visited, so many different people here over the years, interviewing me or who have opened their hearts to me about their lives.”
The biggest challenge Schrader is facing is finding another apartment with similar dimensions, he said.
“I love to live simply, so I don’t want a bigger apartment,” he said. “I don’t want to pay the money. I don’t need it, and I don’t want it. I eat only raw foods. I don’t need a refrigerator. I don’t need a stove. I don’t need a kitchen. I don’t want any of that crap, so why should I pay for it?”
Large residences influence irresponsible living, Schrader said.
“The bigger the apartment or home you live in, the more materials it took to build it, the more energy it takes to heat or cool it, more stuff they buy to fill it usually,” he said. “The more unfair (it is) to our 6.8 billion sisters and brothers in the world.”
Schrader said his dedication to healthy living started when his mother passed away because of her unhealthy living style.
“Much of the reason I am so devoted to health today is having seen my mother suffer so much,” he said. “I am passionately devoted to health. I eat no meat, dairy, junk food. I smoke no cigarettes, I drink no booze, I smoke no marijuana, I use no prescription drugs, I eat no cooked food. I eat no meals in restaurants. I do eat a lot of fruit, drink my smoothies and I drink urine every day, and I highly recommend it.”
Schrader also said he will miss the premium sunbathing spot his residence offers him.
“Behind the garage on this property there is a spot that I have sunbathed many times in the winter in my bikini briefs,” he said. “It is protected from the wind and it’s just beautiful there. I call it my Riviera beach, but now I’ll have to find a different Riviera beach if I can find one.”
Schrader said the move could be problematic, because he might need a vehicle to move his belongings.
“I have not ridden in a car since April 2001,” he said. “It’s a recipe for disaster. There are more mouths to feed in the world while the available land to grow food on is being used for highways. It’s just madness.”
In the meantime, Schrader said he’ll stay with longtime friend Chuck Hosking until he can find a permanent residence. Compared to the world’s problems, Schrader said his housing inconvenience is insignificant.
“That’s life,” he said. “It’s nothing to what the people in Haiti are suffering.”
The impending relocation will not prevent Schrader from continuing his sun worshiping, urine drinking, UNM frequenting and daily walks, he said.
“Walking is like my personal parade for fitness, health, gay liberation, naked body freedom, living simply and against cars,” he said. “It’s one of my highs in life — my personal parade of walking in the sunlight in warm weather.”
WORDS OF WISDOM FROM THE DON:
1. “Something I love more than being naked is being responsible as a global citizen.”
2. “I welcome anybody — friend or enemy or acquaintance. Whenever they see ways that I could live more healthy, more simply, more wisely, more compassionately — tell me. It’s even better if they not just tell me with their mouths or write it to me but actually by their example show me.”
3. “Some people collect dolls, or dishes, or cars, or real estate, or guns, or stocks or bonds. I collect wisdom from everyone I meet. Even though I may disagree with a person on 98 percent of what they are saying, maybe that other 2 percent is enlightening to me, and I can live my life accordingly. ”
DAY IN THE LIFE OF UNM’S
FAVORITE NUDIST:
“Early in the morning after I get up I have a whole regimen of exercises I do in this room. Six different kinds of crunches — 110 of each 660 crunches. Every other day I do pushups, 180 pushups. Not all at once but increments (60, 50, 40, 30). The days I’m not doing pushups I do pull ups — a total of about 60 but, again, not all at once. I also use the resistance band and do Tibetan exercises. I average 45 minutes a day jumping on the trampoline either outside or in here.
In between my exercises I work on my smoothie. I go over often to the Zimmerman library to read the Albuquerque Journal and the Daily Lobo, or (I got to) the CNM library. If it is a sunny day, I exercise on the trampoline outside and read or write letters out there or visit with friends. Once in a while, I listen to Democracy Now.
(I go to) meetings at the Peace Center in the evening sometimes. On weekends I walk to the flea market. I love to go to the flea market. I see people I know, I meet people — many people recognize me. I love to walk to Old Town, Flea Market (and) Isleta Boulevard.”



17 comments
Post American
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The Don’s new letter in this weeks Alibi is disgusting! It’s cool if you want to “kiss ass” or “suck cock” but have a little discretion! It’s cool if you want to rail against the empire or preach against our sick society, but leave your sex life in the privacy of your bedroom. I think gays have the right to get married and be miserable just like everyone else, but Don’t latest rant has me thinking Fred Phelps might have a point! I hope the Don uses sun screen, and might think about wearing a mask in that haze of petrol fumes and exist he floats through. Life sucks Don. Stuff happens. Hope you land back on your feet. regards
Andy
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If Don Schrader really believed in living simply, as he has raved at the city in his broken record diatribes for years, he would live in a cave in the hills, not in an apartment. He would not draw money from a stipend. He may not like to pay taxes, but he has no problem using TV, print and other resources that are funded by taxpayers, such as Channel 27. If he was as humble and selfless as he claims he would not constantly be drawing attention to himself in every possible way. The saints and hermits of legend did indeed like to live simply, but they did so far away from the intruding world in monasteries and remote places in the wilderness, shunning the public eye and any kind of notoriety. They didn’t carry signs and blather on TV about how much better they were than everybody else. Don does not come across to me as a beloved saint, he strikes me as an egomaniac obsessed with constantly being in the public eye by putting on a sort of production starring himself.
“There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”
Eric Hoffer
Vicki Johnson
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I wish Don well. He is a brave fellow, kind and a good listener.
baka
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When it comes to flaunting lifestyles, I am more comfortable with people flaunting their poverty than their material wealth or celebrity. I would rather watch Don parading down the street than watch celebrities arriving at the Academy Awards, for example.
If Don has a certain local celebrity, it is partly his own doing and partly because he has earned it. Not through glamor, wealth, power, or sports, but in a sense by standing against all of that and being true to his values. That’s worth more to me than all of Hollywood put together.
John Linebarger
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Looking at his photograph reminds me that every time I see Don Schrader I think, “He’s remarkably well-preserved for a 75-year old man.” All that veggie-eating, urine-swilling, and gay-sex-having must be doing him a world of good.
Oh … he’s not 75-years old? Oops …
Beloved?
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Don is a pervert and a prowler for dick and should not even be allowed on campus due to his stalking Zimmerman bathrooms, especially in the basement since there are no dividers between urinals. He waits till a man he desires go in to take a leak so he can take a peak!
Yes he reads the newspapers and touches them with his cum, urine, and shit stained hands!
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Honoring and praising this piece of shit is beyond me!
Bourne
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While I’m no fan of this particular individual, I think it’s pretty amusing that the only home for you gay-hating degenerates is the Daily Lobo. I sure as Hell never see you trolling around the campus you supposedly frequent, anyway. Why is that? Is it because your myopic views only have an audience among other products of incest on a college newspaper website? Or is it because a diarrheal spewing of your hateful drivel in public may only earn you looks of utter disdain, passersby partially amazed that you possess the skills to formulate semi-coherent thought, but mostly appalled by the fact that that you chose to publicly wear your ineptitude like a medal of honor?
You’re either liars or cowards. How perfectly pathetic.
slowhike
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Yet another example of the Lobo’s total disconnection with what topics are of interest to readers. Don is not “beloved” by anyone I know, nor does anyone care what he eats or what size apartment he wants, bla bla habla
sara
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good listener I’ll share it with nudists on naturistmate . com
Legend in his own mind!
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Don is sick folks. Who else makes a monument to himself except for our current president who wrote two books about his life when he was a nobody except to himself?
Why don’t they house Don in the Psychology Department and they could pay him the peanuts, raw of course, he is worth!
Don needs car like we do!
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All of us here need a vehicle of some kind at one time or another even if you are a bike rider who occasionally use the buses. Now Don’s Dilemma is that he needs one to move his numerous trophy’s to himself.
“Schrader said the move could be problematic, because he might need a vehicle to move his belongings.
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“I have not ridden in a car since April 2001,” he said. “It’s a recipe for disaster. There are more mouths to feed in the world while the available land to grow food on is being used for highways. It’s just madness.”
Can you imagine if he gets sick drinking his own urine and falls over and 911 is called and he’s put into an ambulance? Is his stance so strong that he’ll refuse a ride to the emergency room? Of course he wouldn’t which means when you need to get into a vehicle, you do. He just hasn’t absolutely needed to get in one so he doesn’t.
Can you imagine his anger as he walks the sidewalks, same a “highways” to people who walk, as cars fly pass him but does he ask himself, “Do they need that ride?”
Don “Holier than thou?” His admission that “even though I may disagree with a person on 98 percent of what they are saying, maybe that other 2 percent is enlightening to me, and I can live my life accordingly.” THIS PROVES DON IS IN HIS OWN LITTLE WORLD WHERE THE ONLY PERSON HE CAN AGREE WITH HIS HIMSELF!
This man has a mental illness and probably should be on some type of meds!
STOP PUTTING THIS MAN ON HIS OWN PEDESTAL!!!
Bourne
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You do realize that contributing anything to this is giving the man attention, thus placing him on said pedestal, correct? Similarly, giving care to his opinion of you as you cruise by him in your car is only validating him.
If you people actually don’t care about what he says (like the majority of us) put that sentiment in to action and discontinue deliberation about the man.
2201 East
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As a gay naturist myself, I’d like to comment on Mr. Schrader. I once had a person almost quit speaking to me. I made the mistake of using the last name of the person this article is about instead of his own which was very similar. This person was more than a bit peculiar himself, so whoever could make him feel that way had to be just plain strange. I can even deal with his drinking urine as a holistic thing but his sex life, please spare me. Ever heard the expression, “get a room?”
AJB
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“Is his stance so strong that he’ll refuse a ride to the emergency room? Of course he wouldn’t which means when you need to get into a vehicle, you do.”
How the hell do you have any idea whether or not Don would refuse to ride to the emergency room? I don’t know either, but my guess would be that he would refuse, from what I know of him. As for his opposition to vehicles, it’s not absolute. Is that what you somehow got from “There are more mouths to feed in the world while the available land to grow food on is being used for highways. It’s just madness.”? Because to me all that’s saying is that peoples primary needs (such as hunger) are more important than people’s secondary needs (such as travel). How can you disagree with that?
Also, Don has specifically told me that he is in support of keeping emergency vehicles. This is not to say that he personally would want to use one; he believes strongly in fairness, and since so many other people don’t have access to such services, he doesn’t think he should.
You people really don’t know him at all, and yet you judge him so strongly. Don is very non-judgmental for a man of such strong opinions. Just because you disagree with his opinions doesn’t mean you have to hate him. He doesn’t hate you.
BubbaBump
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Well. I do so hope Mr/Rev Schrader will come to his senses of return to our hometown of Dakota, IL. He was the valeDICKtorian of his class for goodness sakes. The Scrader family has done well with the Schrader livestock marketing company. As a matter of fact, I expect old Don is probalby a trained auctioneer as well. Sure seems foolish for him to throw all that away when he had it made. I worry that his kin back here might find out he is gay and be really upset. His kin are on ultra-conservative mennonites and his older brother wont even wear a necktie thinking its too flashy. I dont know how he got so messed up drinking pee and what not. I hope he gets his gayness cured. Time is running out. Donnie is 64 years old now. Praying for Donnie boy.
ayyo
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it had occurred to me that he was getting an awful lot of press for someone supposedly so humble. i agree w PP, it doesn’t follow what he says our his beliefs to not contribute any sort of work anyone knows about and live off of an inheritance.. he’s so into being “old-fashioned”, like the sun and breathing, as in another Lobo post..? well work is about as old fashioned as anything. i get what he’s not doing that is supposedly making a difference (though i don’t really see how), but what is he actually DOing to benefit anyone, or doing at all? his recent letter to the Alibi just points out potential problems of marriage, with no acknowledgement of existence of other view points, and has no real substance.. just another excuse to talk about himself and his superior opinion. I live off of about $7000 year, which i work for, but it’s never occured to me that i’m special for it. as for urine drinking, i advise people to do what instinctively seems and feels healthy.. eating fruits and veggies to me instinctively seems healthy, drinking urine not so much.
ayyo
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it had occurred to me that he was getting an awful lot of press for someone supposedly so humble. i agree w PP, it doesn’t follow what he says our his beliefs to not contribute any sort of work anyone knows about and live off of an inheritance.. he’s so into being “old-fashioned”, like the sun and breathing, as in another Lobo post..? well work is about as old fashioned as anything. i get what he’s not doing that is supposedly making a difference (though i don’t really see how), but what is he actually DOing to benefit anyone, or doing at all? his recent letter to the Alibi just points out potential problems of marriage, with no acknowledgement of existence of other view points, and has no real substance.. just another excuse to talk about himself and his superior opinion. I live off of about $7000 year, which i work for, but it’s never occured to me that i’m special for it. as for urine drinking, i advise people to do what instinctively seems and feels healthy.. eating fruits and veggies to me instinctively seems healthy, drinking urine not so much.
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