Life
By Daniel Reinish
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February 13, 2006
In Observatory Hill Dining Hall, next to a window overlooking a field of melting snow, first-year Engineering student Eric Pankey sat in passionate discussion with a group of companions.
The topic of so much interest was not a new academic discovery or even the adventures of the previous evening's basketball game -- Pankey was describing the perils of a snowball fight.
"This girl chased me down," Pankey said, adding that, despite his attempts, he could not keep from getting pelted in the face.
"I'm pretty violent," Pankey said with a laugh, but, ultimately, he had to surrender.
Students get excited over the special occasion of snow, first-year College student Colin Page explained.
"It doesn't happen very often," Page said, while "you can go to the gym or go outside and throw a football any time you want."
Elsewhere on Grounds, third-year College student Darius Nabors was also narrating a snow-filled story.
Nabors walked down the street describing to his friends his experience perfecting a new snowball technique.
Nabors said he would throw them at the branches of magnolia trees so that the snow they were collecting would fall down on people.
"They wouldn't know what happened," Nabors said.
