Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Winter Wonderland If a visilor happened to be at Tech on a certain Friday in February, he might wonder if he was in the right state or at the right school. On that particular Friday, Feb. 17, mature college students were acting like 10- year-olds. The reason? A nine-inch snowfall that closed the campus down for a day. Students awoke that morning to learn there was no school and im- mediately they poured into the icy streets and the Aquatic Center fields to play in the white stuff. There hadn ' t been that much action on campus since the A M all-night pep rally in the fall. Snowball fights dominated the majority of the action. You couldn ' t walk by the Wiggins Complex without being bombarded by snowballs thrown by a dozen people or more. Most joined in the fun to wait for the next unsus- pecting victim. Some people tried to venture out in their cars, but to no avail. Those that did make it out were pulling car skiers around Memorial Circle. People with skis managed to make it to the Aquatic Center and the Lubbock hill there to practice their ski techniques and jumps. Some ended up looking for snow snakes — head first in the snow. Guarding several of the buildings on campus were snowy figures. Everyone enjoys building a snowman, and they were numerous that day. If you happened to get by Sneed, Gordon and Bledoe Halls, you might have seen the igloo that the residents built. One in- novative group used a trash can to mold a statue of Star Wars robot R-2 D-2 in front of a house on Main Street. After a long day in the snow, every- one came in out of the cold, took off wet clothes and hung them up to dry. A cup of hot chocolate (or hot buttered rum) was quickly downed and students began to sing softly to themselves let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

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The Year cont Why do they call it spring semes- ter, when you know it ' s going to snow for months before it even thinks about warming up? The Coliseum was predictably freezing when students returned in January for the continuing battle of registration. After bull sessions on the floor, endless lines and closed class sec- tions, Tech once again settled down to the books. But not just the books. Tech was in the midst of an exciting basketball season, with star Mike Russell stirring up the adrenalin for a close SWC finish. Tech barely man- aged to .squeeze into the SWC Tourna- ment before being ousted by Houston. The Raiders, however, did score a win at the tournament: the SWC Sports- manship Award for 1977-78. IS-lja Ventsna