Henderson State University - Star Yearbook (Arkadelphia, AR)

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24 Oakla wn -uv ff :'- ' 7 .ne t- OBKIBWFI 1 continued Teachers have been known to pull out day-old tickets looking for that sure answer to a calculus equation. Students flock to the 52.00 window where numbers and grimy dollar billstrade hands every twenty-five minutes, beginning at 1:30 p.m. from February 4th until April 6th, making a 50-day vacation stretch across the spring semester. Being only a few feet away from the soft clay track, HSU students have been known to leap astride thethoroughbreds whenthe oldest mare crosses the line assuring the coed of returning to Arkadelphia a partial winner. The bells, the beer, the red-hots V ima 'ia Running neck to neck, two horses fight for that finish wire that will mean a bundle of cash for some and empty pockets for others.

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, Record crowds are achieved an- , nually at Oaklawn. To get good 5 seats or field positions, students i had to get to the trac ' kearly in f' damn! there goes rn tuition! . . . and this month's fraternity dues, and that book I need for English Lit class, and those new blue jeans, and my date Saturday night, and my car payments, and that parking ticket that's three months overdue, and Dad's birthday present, and the concert next weekend, and Six Flags and .............................................................. N f S and all of the people, people, people abound at Hot Springs. The Spa City of the Northern Hemisphere read the busses that carry the citizens from all over the city to the track to grasp a little of the turn of the century sport- horse racing. The lines are long and the wait is terrible, but the student with pro- gram in hand and beer in the other, claws eagerly for that small 3 x 5 ticket bearing nothing but a number. The horses are at the gate, booms the announcer. HANNNNNNNNNN Theeeeeeyer Offf. booms the cory as a college student is reduced to a babbling idiot muttering for forgotten steed that stayed back in the gate, or bet- ter yet any horse that lost his rider and never made it to the gate. Oaklawn is an experience of beauty, where the poorest of col- lege students can run against the leaders of society not only in so- cial, but also political circles. As the horses cross the finish line, the tote board flashes in neon lights the results of your two-dollar betg but as usual your horse crossed the finish line - dead last again. There are those who win, there are those who lose, and then come the liars. lt is a most unusual place where you can drink beer from a plastic cup, eat oysters on the half shell, and spend your entire paycheck in one afternoon - but having fun is always at Oaklawn. About the 98-pound weaklings? They are the jockeys, and kisses hit them following each and every race. Oaklawn 25