p % 0 m ~ n m N C) - ; rrUnder a sun y September sky, hundreds of alumni and students gathered on the shores of Cedar Lake to watch the annual Freshman Cardboard Canoe Race. However, this year's rite of passage for freshman engineering students ca'me with a few extra twists. While in the past canoes had to hold an additional passenger, the race organizers decided for the 2007 contest to give students fewer materials and require only the two paddlers in the vessel. On top of this, Dr. Gerry Brown implemented a new challenge of adding cargo along the way by ijicking up gallon milk jugs filled with seven eounds of water. Dr. Robert Chasnov, Assistant to the Chair of the Engineering Department, explained that their reason for the change of rules was "to keep the competition from getting stale." In spiteof the new challenges, freshmen Colten Mounce, Paul Ikeda, Greg Donaldson, and Joshua Tucker beat a strong field of contenders by navigating their paper vessel across Cedar Lake in just under two minutes. Ikeda, the chief designer of the canoe, claimed that the size of the team's boat contributed to their boat's ~peed and agility in the water, enabling it to "wi thstand a good amount of torque and stress." Tucker, one of the paddlers, explained the confidence they had in heir design when "about half-way across the lake, Greg and I started digging our paddles deep [and found] we could maneuver the cardboard boat like an actual canoe." It was this strength and maneuvera ility that enabled the team to win the 2007 Cardboard Ganoe Race and collect the prize of a Tl -89 Titanium Calculator. The Comm. Arts competitors proudly display their creative wreckage...minus the fancy sail that once adorned their "canoe." Canoe Race Day 2007 sports summer temperatures, drawing many spectators and students hawking free ice cream and water. I
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