Photos by Jonathan A Capriel
Freezing rain shut down many roads and schools across the Mid-South on Monday and Tuesday, including the University of Memphis. Even though temperatures fell well below freezing, U of M students from the Living Learning Complex residence hall ventured into the cold and turned slight inclines on campus into sledding slopes.
Frist to go down the run was Hannah Hensen, a biomedical engineering freshman. She utilized a slightly-broken plastic laundry basket she found in the dorms.
Giving the luger a running shove is Hope Curl, an anthropology freshman.
Curl celebrates the successful run down Herzog Street, behind the Physical Plant Building. But the slope attracts others with stranger sleds.
More student “athletes” approach the hill armed with food trays, plastic bins and a tractor tire.
Jay Williams, a business management sophomore, was first to braced himself inside the large tier…
…while his “friends” rolled him down street.
Maddie McDougal, a biomedical engineering freshmen, also braved the tire but didn’t get as far down the street as Williams.
“I’ve never seen snow before,” is how Curl, a Georgia native, explained her eagerness for the activity.
