PEOPLE - 86 SOPHOMORES LISA DUNYON and Hannah Hawkins, Panie Cobb residents, enjoy a pillow fight Oct 16 after curfew. "We tryto go to sleep, but things like [pillow fights[ end up happening,"Dunyon said about after-curfew activities in the dorm. -A. BEENE AFTER HOURS RESIDENTS TELL OF TRADITIONS, ACTIVITIES IN DORMS non said."They all made shirts, kept a scoreboard outside one of their doors and made a sign. They begged me to A fter a typical weekday, most of the 2,685 students who lived on campus this year were back together in their ~---=--_ .. have hall slip-n-slides, and I told them they would just have to stick to bowling," McKinnon said. residence halls for curfew at 11 p.m. in addition to studying and sleepin& those living on campus also saw this time as an opportunity for socializing and recreation. Some men in Harbin Hall' 5 third floor did produce hall slip-n-slides this year. The men called themselves the Floor Three Fellas, or the F3F. Junior Laurel McKinnon, a resident assistant in Sears Hall, recalled the bowling tournaments. After setting up 20 to 30 water bottles at the end of the hall, the bowler rolled a volleyball or soccer ball to knock down the "pins." SOPHOMORE TIffANY MORRISON waits for the ball in amatch of pingpongin Kenda ll Hall Oct. 16. -A. BEENE One of the participants, sophomore George Wadsworth, explained the slip-nslide in basic terms of a man who would McKinnon said the amount of time the women on the hall spent bowling developed unity. "They really got into it," McKinslide down the hall on the combination of water and some variation of household cleaner. Once he reached the end of the hall, the slider would push off with his feet and slide all the way back to the starting spot. Wadsworth told of the fun he and his friends had making slipn-slides, but that these friendships meant more to each other than just having fun in the dorm. "Whenever something goes wrong we're all there for each other," Wadsworth said. "[Last year 1 we had prayer groups every night for a couple of months. That's probably our best after-curfew activity." David Collins, assistant dean of students, said one of the roles of curfew was to help maintain Harding as a residential campus where students could experience a sense of community. "There's no doubt that curfew is a beginning of a lot of fun times for people to get together, visit about the day and relax," Collins said. "It's a time when everybody is, in a way, forced to come together, but then they enjoy the benefits of being together." -+AARON MILLER
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