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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University November 17, 2003 | Vol. 33 No. 12
 
Weight Watcher

PHOTO BY HPS/JAY VAN RENSSELAER

Freshman engineering student Yevgeniy "Eugene" Semenov watches hopefully as the spindly pasta-and-glue span he built with two teammates holds up a set of weights during the annual Spaghetti Bridge Competition, conducted last week at the Mattin Center. The entry assembled by Semenov and fellow freshmen David Pollicino, looking on at right, and Abigail Robinson won the first prize of $100 by holding up 132 pounds before collapsing. Seventeen teams constructed bridges for the contest, which introduces students to the principles of planning and executing an engineering project.
—Phil Sneiderman
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