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l A Forgiveness Workshop will be held from r riaay 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Counseling and Human Development Center at 900 Assembly 28 a ' Cnf .irfJov ^he USC Americorps Project's USC _y Homework of King Park will sponsor a WalkA-Thon on campus. All proceeds will go to wsupport work being done at "Camp Kemo." Call 777-0430 for information. Round Table Gaming Society, 12 p.m., Leconte 112 Carolina Productions, 8 pro., RH Theater SlUlday ^ faculty performance at the School of J Music will feature Constance Lane on flute and Vonda Darr on harp at 4 pro in the recital zW m m haii. PALM Campus Ministry, Worship and Dinner, 5:30 p.m., 728 Pickens St. Cahinet. 6 n.m.. Witten Rm. Mnnflav Sierra Student Coalition, 7 p.m., RH 203 j Fraternity Council, 4:30 p.m. Peer Conduct Board, 7:30 p.m., RH 303 Homecoming Commission, 6:30 p.m., RH i| 348 JL Sorority Council, 5 p.m. Into the Streets, 8 p.m., Preston Seminar Room Entries for the EVENTS! calendar may be submitted to The Gamecock on the third floor of the Russell House. There is a box in the newsroom designated for event entries. r ft Cl i ftj " tnMWBftW^BBk. JmB comfort made in en ^ ^'' "^ ^ ""* and you know. The best leathers, ? Engineering sti CAMPUS PRESS EXCHANGE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.?Robots for pouring wine, cleaning CDs and tossing coins into a piggy bank were featured March 12 in the Lots of Robots show at the University of Minnesota. The robots were built by students enrolled in Professor William Durfee's Introduction to Engineering, a new lowerdivision mechanical engineering course at the University of Minnesota. About 100 students participated in the show, and they had five weeks to complete a suitable model for the project. They had to build a machine that does something interesting," said Durfee. "I had no idea what to expect when I ramp hprp this mnrnincr Fm vptv nlppspd with the results." The robots, which the contest rules define as a computer-controlled machine, were judged by contest jurors on six Memorial fund campus officer COLLEGE PRESS EXCHANGE Ohio State University?Two Ohio State students are trying to establish an endowment fund in memory of slain University Police > Officer Michael fa Blankenship. He died protec Blankenshipwas and that's som? shot and killed Feb. never say i 10 while responding enoua to a theft call from the Wexner Center. Bill Walker, a Dill ffti senior majoring in 4 r T7 i i j ? Ohio state L English, and his friend Rebecca Marr, ^ a second-year ' student majoring in zoology, wanted to remember Blankenship with more than just thoughts and prayers. "He died protecting our lives, and thafs something you can never say thank you enough for," Walker said. The two need to raise $25,000 to start .gland, i I II ^ 4 idents at Univer categories, including construction and reliability. "They have to work every time you n'I V?4-1% *-? V*nwl*-y/~t4- nnvi- " pi COO U1C UUUAJ1L lllclta U1C IJUHUCOt pcuu, saidDurfee. But most of the students had to do some last-minute tinkering with their creations in order to get them to work at all. The robots also had to be small enough to fit inside a 4-by-4-foot area, and whatever action they performed had to take between 20 and 45 seconds. Job prospects for mechanical engineers are looking up, both nationally and in the Twin Cities area, said Durfee, and the contest will help the students in the job market. "(Mechanical engineering) is doing quite well, actually," he said. "There was a time two or three years ago when it was pretty tight. (Building a robot) is the sort of thing you can put in your to honor slain ai unio oiaie the endowment fund, and Walker said he and Marr plan to ask the Blankenship family to determine what the fund will be used for. "If s important to show appreciation / for what he's done, w and show other sting our lives, officers that we ?thing yon can appreciate what they thank yon do," Marr said, h for. Marr, a member of Delta Delta Delta, said she and Walker, ralker a member of the nglish senior ^ fraternity, decided to begin y raising money through the greek system. They have received letters from 24 houses promising donations and hope that more will participate. "We expect to raise roughly $5,000 from donations made by the greek system," Walker said. Decisions. michelle hills sara kr I sity of Minnesoi portfolio. It's the kind of hands-on experimental experience employers look for." Yulyana Halim, a freshman from Indonesia, built "Mr. Bubbles," a bubbleblowing robot. "Ks tough fcr a freshman-level course," she said. "I think I would have done better if Fd taken junior-level courses like Linear Circuits first." Justin Crank, who built a compact disc cleaner, had a more positive view of the course. "Bottom line ? it's fun," he said. "Ever since I was a kid Tve been playing with little electronic toys. I just put them together like the book said to, but now I know how to hook them up. Electronics is magic." "The World's Most Ridiculous Piggy Bank," built by Miles Carlson, uses a lever to toss coins into an empty water bottle. ?i|F ^ "fW j "lll%?''i:%f, %1|:. - '^yj^P ; MMMIk DRUNK DRIVING [ DRUNKI Alonzo Drake, killed 3/17/91 atll Next time your friend insists on ( stop him. 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