You know who's going to be there. If someone's not in their apartment, they're probably at Midnight Oil. It's almost 10 p.m., and Midnight Oil Coffee House on Race Avenue is getting crowded.
Students enter shedding their backpacks.
They greet friends already settled in, then get in line to stare at the wide array of options posted on a chalkboard behind the counter. And most don't realize that Harding students haven't always had it so good. Off-campus activity was scarce at best. So they were satisfied to stroll a couple of blocks to Buford's Beanery, a tiny mobile home where Lawyer and his brothers served up 15-cent hamburgers. If you came in after those eight seats were full, you stood up behind them.