"This is the first year that I haven't really done anything," she said.

Rasheed Siddiqui, a pre-dental senior from Tulsa, is staying in town to study.

"This is like the lamest (spring break) I've ever had," he said.

He's had exciting trips to exotic locales in other years, but not this one. "It's just game time now, you know, you pick and choose your battles and this isn't one I got to choose."

It could be that upperclassmen don't feel the need to let loose like freshmen.

"I don't have the super-high need to go do something crazy," he said. Or it could just be they have to buckle down and focus on school, he said.

It didn't look like much buckling was being done Thursday afternoon, however. The South Oval was far quieter than normal.

"I just got out of class," Siddiqui said. "And it was like half the people in there, and no one was really paying attention."

Julianna Parker 366-3541 jparker@normantranscript.com