Todd Doran Rawie - Phoenix , AZ Charles Reed - Russellville, AR Sherry Dawn Reeves - Agnos, AR Nancy Lynn Regauld - N. Little Rock , AR Melissa Jane Renfrow - Senath, MO Matthew D. Reynolds - Torrensville, Adelaide, Australia Wesley Grant Reynolds - Shreveport , LA Elizabeth Ann Richardson - Searcy, AR Beth Ann Rickett - Oak Grove, MO ' Lisa Jean Risse - Charlone, NC Andrew S. Roberts - Huntington Beach, CA Lourdes Isabel Robles - Panama City, Panama Veneranda Rodriguez - San Miguelito, Panama James David Roe - San Angelo, TX Glynis Leanne Rogers - Rogers, AR Ivette Mareida Rogers - Panama City, Panama Jennifer Lynn Rogers - Lake Village, AR Shannon E. Roggendorff - Huntsville, AL Dianne Marie Romer - Washington, MO Stanley Keith Rose - Beebe, AR Marnie L. Rozell - Branson , MO Karen Lee Ruhland - Vincentown, NJ You're all wet. With evident fear and apprehension, freshman Stephenie Jones from Amarillo, TX, makes an effort to dodge the spraying water from a misplaced sprinkler. Students were often caught by surprise on their way to class by the malicious sprinklers. During the spring and summer months, students often had to dodge the water from three sprinklers to walk across campus. - photo by Bill Tripp. Living with "The Wet Look" E very time I put my foot down I felt the squish of water seeping through my mesh kangaroo tennis shoes, and I left pools of water in the American Studies building hall. When I walked into my English class, the girl who sat next to me looked at me as if I were a lost, wet puppy. "Is it raining outside?" she asked. "Why do you ask?" I retorted, as if my chair had not squeegeed four gallons of water from my jacket. "You're all wet," the girl noted, a little concerned, "I thought you had been walking in the rain." "Look outside," I whispered as class began, "The sun is shining. I got zapped by the sprinkler again." Getting the last word in, another friend suggested that I stay off the grass so I would not get soaked. I did not answer his advice because I knew my plight was hopeless - I never left the sidewalk on the way to class, but the sprinkler still plastered me. This was a familiar scenario this year. The weather stayed warm late in the fall, and spring came early to the Harding campus, so the Harding maintenance crew continued to water the grass to take advantage of the nice weather. They also watered the sidewalks. Why? Rest assured , the crew did not think that the sidewalks will grow. On the contrary, the grounds team would have enjoyed an automatic sprinkler system that did not require daily adjusting and placing like the manual system requires. Another advantage to having an automatic system was that the sprinklers could be turned on at night while fewer students strolled the walkways. But this year, the spirnklers were again dodged and juked by students with armloads of books, and as students put up with getting just a bit wet on the way to class, you could always hear a chuckle from a friend or even someone you didn't know who knew "the wet look" from experience. - Greg Taylor
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