Tray Play

ATHENS, Ga.--The winter blizzards that temporarily shut down scores of campuses and even delayed the beginning of the new term at others swept away something different at the University of Georgia: dining hall trays.

According to some estimates, students carted off as many as 450 trays--worth an estimated $2000--to use as sleds when the university closed down because of a snowstorm, the College Press Service reported recently.

"You've got to understand it only snows here about once every ten years, and when it does these students go wild," said Glen Gerrett, Georgia's Food Service Director. During the sledding festival, Athens police had to break up a crowd of some 500 students whose snowball fights were disrupting traffic through the campus.