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Friday, January 28, 20(X)
Students Tell How They Spent Their Snow Days
“Our quad had a big
snowball fight yesterday,
but today is a big study
and do laundry day. ”
Tiffany Foster
Sophomore, Fayetteville
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in the snow. ”
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Senior, Raleigh
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“Playing in the snow.
Sledding. That’s the best
part. We just got a trash
bag a lunch tray, anything
we could find. ”
Greg McCoy
Freshman, New Bern
“I played football
yesterday in (Ehringhaus)
Field, and I got some
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Nikheel Purohit
Junior, Charlotte
Historic 3-Day Break Lets
Students Revel in Snow
Students used dining trays
for sleds, blasted each other
with snowballs and caught
up on sleep this week.
By Arman Anvari
and Katy Nelson
Staff Writers
As classes resume at 9 a.m. today, lec
ture halls and new assignments replace
the horseplay of the past few snow
bound days.
Zooming down streets on sleds,
throwing snowballs and building snow
buddies, students have reveled in the
transformation of the University from
an institution of higher learning into a
winter playground.
But by Thursday, many students said
they were tiring of the inconveniences
that came with a snow-laden campus.
“It’s getting really old,” junior Sarah
Goodman said. “There’s no food.
There’s no bread left in the stores.”
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if we never went back to class again as
long as the SRC ... was open.”
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to get back into a routine. “It may be the
nerd in me, but I wish classes would get
back,” he said.
Hanlon said he mostly stayed inside
during the school closing and occupied
himself by watching reruns of “Law &
Order.”
To alleviate her boredom, senior
Christina Hodges said she planned to
venture out to the Smith Center for the
UNC-Maryland game, which was
moved from Wednesday night to
Thursday.
But such disillusionment was not felt
earlier in the week, as many students
romped around in the unusually heavy
snowfall of lb inches.
“I was ecstatic at the fact that we had
snow on the ground since we don’t get
much here in North Carolina,” said
Morris McDaniel Sharber, a freshman
from Fayetteville.
“I immediately took advantage of
that and went outside and began chuck
ing snowballs at my friends.”
More than 100 students gathered at
Khringhaus Field on Monday night, par
titioning themselves into small groups
and randomly attacking each another
with snowballs.
Sophomore John Greene, a comput
er engineering major from High Point,
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“ljust stole a tray from
Lenoir, and I’m getting
ready to sled down
the steps by the Union.”
Kaonu Ly
Senior, Mt. Gilead
“We’ve been
having snowball
fights and
slumber parties.”
Kelly Williams
Sophomore, Newark, N.J.
said he took part in a snowball fight of
about 160 to 175 people near Stacy,
Lewis and Aycock residence halls
Monday night.
“We would take turns charging one
another and hitting cars,” Greene said,
adding that one car owner was not espe
cially pleased with the students’
shenanigans.
Greene said the owner began to yell
at the snowball warriors, at which point
they turned their ammunition on him.
By Tuesday night, much of the cam
pus’ snow had been packed down into
an unforgiving slab of ice - not so good
for Snowballs but excellent for sledding,
several students said.
“The snow’s not packing today so I
think that’s a reason why more people
are sledding tonight,” sophomore
Amanda Zellner said Tuesday night.
More than 200 students took over
Skipper Bowles Drive, using the steep
incline to reach high speeds as they
screamed down the street between
Hinton James and Craige residence
halls toward their eventual destination -
the Smith Center.
Students used everything from garbage
can lids to parking signs to protect their
derrieres. Crazier thrill-seekers chose to
slide down on ladders, metal roadblock
barriers, toy cars, closet doors and even a
campus building marker.
“I found the best thing to be a plas
tic tray from Lenoir (Dining Hall). I’ve
seen people slide down on radiator
vents,” Zellner said. “I’m impressed.
They’re getting pretty ingenious with
what to sled on.”
Over the course of three class-free
days, students not only peppered each
other with snowballs and tumbled down
hills, they exercised their creative flair
by building snow creations.
Guarding the flagpole in Polk Place
was a 12-foot tall snowman with a trash
can lid for a hat, granny apples for eyes
and a twig cigarette sticking out of his
bagel-mouth.
In front of Bingham Hall, students
constructed a living room scene com
plete with a La-Z-Boy chair, an
ottoman, a television set and a video
game system.
But, some snow structures did not
make it through the night.
“I’d have to say the highlight of our
snow adventure was the destruction of
three innocent snowmen,” Sharber said.
On Wednesday afternoon, junior
Emily Matson and sophomore psychol
ogy major Jeremy Heuts were still frol
icking in the snow in front of South
Building. Heuts threw snowballs at
Matson, a psychology and music major.
Seconds later, Matson was tumbling
in the snow, forming a snow angel.
Matson said she was enjoying herself
after a long walk to Lenoir Dining Hall
from Carrboro on Wednesday. She had
been stuck inside all day Tuesday, she
said.
Many students also ventured out
after dark to a crowded Franklin Street
bar scene. Patrons could be seen slip
ping and sliding down the street, as icy
sidewalks became more of a distraction
than beer buzzes.
The bitter temperatures translated
into heightened aggression for some
and several bar fights erupted Tuesday
night.
Other students chose to stay inside in
hopes of keeping warm and catching up
on schoolwork, sleep and television.
“I’ve just caught up on homework
that I’ve put off,” Amanda Fox, a junior
from Hickory, said of her time off from
school.
Pharmacy student Rachel Pendleton
from Lawsonville and her friends
walked to Coker Arboretum on
Monday, taking an entire roll of pictures
of the snow-blanketed landscape.
Pendleton said, “It was really pretty,
like something you’d see in a movie.”
Karey Wutkomki contributed to this
story.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.