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The early April afternoon was gray. Gray because
the end of the semester loomed near enough to feel the
weight of unfinished term papers, but not near enough
to feel the relief of graduation. Gray, because the West
Texas weather couldn't decide whether to be winter or
summer.
Gray . . . but not everywhere.
On the well-worn intramural field at Hardin-
Simmons University the afternoon was fluorescent
orange, bright peacock blue and pastel yellow, green
and pink.
No, not a pop-art painting, but fluorescent orange
insulated coveralls, a bright peacock blue sweatshirt
and a pastel yellow, green and pink blanket wrapped
around an-almost-blue-from-the-cold-coed.
The coveralls, the sweatshirt and the blanket were
gathered at HSU for Almost Anything Goes competi-
tion, where the spirits of the students clad in bright
colors contrasted with the dismal, end-of-semester
blues as much as the colors contrasted with the gray
sky.
Almost Anything Goes placed Texans from the
three local colleges against out-of-state students.
About 200 students left studies behind to attend or
participate in the competition.
The afternoon's series of unusual athletic events in-
cluded the inner tube roll, in which one person crawled
inside four inner tubes and team members rolled him
Opposite page: right - In the decorate-your-dean
relay Liz Lane, junior radio-television major, pours
milk on Norman Archibald, associate dean of stu-
dents, top - Bart Castle, president of the Students'
Association, and Andi Cannedy, junior public rela-
tions major, huddle togetherg bottom - Clark Rid-
dell, a sophomore public relations major from
Redlands, Calif, competes in the banana peel race.
down the field - or diagonally across the field and in-
to a photographer. The mattress carry especially
pleased the crowd of about 60. The event required
male team members to race while carrying all female
team members on a dangerously sagging mattress.
Competition between Lone Star state residents and
the "foreigners" was lighthearted, with cheers like
g'Texans, Texans you're so bad, look at the scoreboard,
oh, so sadf'
The three schools also competed against each other
in the cowchip and decorate-your-dean relays.
However, the student government presidents and
deans of the schools may have thought, with good
cause, that the events were designed solely for their
discomfort.
ACU won the cowchip relay. Spectators were not
sure whether the victory came because of Students'
Association president Bart Castle's running expertise
or his classmates' eagerness to stuff dried and not-so-
dried cowchips into the baggy pair of pants he wore
while running down the field and back.
Bart and his McMurry and HSU counterparts end-
ed up with smelly green legs. But after seeing the
decorated deans, the presidents probably thought they
were lucky. In a contest reminiscent of summer camp
escapades, students transformed their deans into egg-
and-butter-smeared, shaving-cream-topped, toilet-
paper-wrapped mummies.
Leaving the deans to unwrap and contemplate
revenge, Texans and non-Texans regrouped for the tug
of war, which spectators were invited to join. The non-
Texan team won the event, so ACU's Texan coor-
dinator, Jack Hodge, took his promised dive in the
HSU pool. Just before Jack took his heroic plunge, the
sun broke through the clouds and banished the gray.
In the end the weather matched the spirit of Almost
Anything Goes. v- Kelly Deatherage
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