There were no records broken nor many snowballs assembled in what was supposed to be a massive snowball fight on a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon at Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
An estimated 700 students — most underdressed despite bone-chilling temperatures hovering in the single digits — hurled snow chunks at each other for nearly 30 minutes. The cold temps made it difficult to form actual snowballs, but that didn’t stop the students from engaging in battle.