The Collegian Perspectives 2 News 3 Religion 4 Features 4 Entertainment 5-7 Sports 7 Vol. No. 16 Grove City College, Grove City, Pa. Friday, March 12, 1993 Engineers ride away with honors Weekend athletes who com- plain of saddle sores after a to provide ultimate justice for 3,400 entry kits were re- the coyote," said DeWitt, "so quested, including 169 from long bike ride may be inter- he can finally get his dinner." Europe. Editors from five in- ested in the ideas of a Grove dustry trade magazines judged City College student who says The trap is triggered when the the 340 design proposals en- he can spare them some poste- Roadrunner cats some seed, tered in the contest. rior pain. and finishes several steps later Mechanical engineering se- when a train-car of wet cement GCC swept two of the four nior Dave Adams and his is dumped on the bird. contest sub-categories, while teammates have captured the the grand prize went to the $1,000 first prize in the student Teammates unable to attend Saturn division of GM for a division of the Firestone Inno- the ceremony were Nate robot wrist design. Dils de- vators Design Contest for their Hughes, Kristen Pillsbury, scribed the award-winning approach to reducing the shock Marcus Rossi and Greg Telesz, GCC design as an "innovative and discomfort associated with who were all part of Adams' low-volume" application. off-road mountain bikes. team. Chris Urban and Ashley Wenger rounded out the four- Adams plans to continue his "Our idea is to cushion the some who captured the Gold- study of mountain bike dynam- ride of the bike just like an au- berg Award. ics in Grove City's Machine tomobile suspension," explains Design and Robotics Lab. Adams. "Our suspension uses "Winning two awards in this where he is studying optimum an air spring that can be tuned national competition is a great suspension design with faculty to different road conditions." honor for Grove City College. advisor Dr. Mark Reuber, as- and yet another example of the sociate professor of mechani- While cushioned bikes re- strengths of our engineering cal engineering. Adams hopes cently became available in the program and the caliber of our to discuss his idea with a American market, the GCC professors," said College Pres- mountain bike manufacturer. design offers an improvement ident Jerry E. Combec. "We because the stiffness of the are extremely proud of all Mr. Joseph Goncz, chairman suspension can be adjusted for these students. of the department and associ- the weight of the rider and ate dean of engineering and changing road conditions. According to Firestone de- science, is impressed with the sign engineer Mike Dils, the students' work. "We're glad to Adams received the design purpose of the design compe- accept recognition as a leader award at the National Design tition is to "encourage innova- in design innovation," he said. Engineering Show and Confer- National design winners Bill DeWitt, Dave Adams and Mike tive design applications using ence held at Chicago's Mc- Kabay pose with a mountain bike they are modifying for an im- air springs," the adjustable air- Goncz noted that GCC's Ma- Cormick Place, March 8-11. proved cushioned ride. powered cushions manufac- chine Design Laboratory is one tured by Firestone. of a few in the country dedi- Receiving the $1.00 Rube This division, which required knowledge, the students came cated exclusively to the hands- Goldberg Award at the same a creative application of air A second up with a series of hypothetical company on education of undergraduates ceremony were classmates Bill springs. was open to industrial events, all using the cushioning spokesman said more than in design. DcWitt and Mike Kabay, companies as well as students. members of another GCC stu- action of air springs to help The GCC entry was entitled dent design team that won first perpetual loser Wile E. Coyote "Coyote's Revenge." Drawing catch the clever Roadrunner prize in the creativity division. from their childhood cartoon once and for all. "We wanted Faculty presents scholarly works Sennholz returns For Summer class With the economy at the ena such as individual choice Koin in 1949, studying law forefront of today's news and and preference, exchanges and and political science at both political concerns, many markets, indirect exchange, institutions. Americans could benefit from prices, capital and interest, Dr. Sennholz came to the learning or re-learning basic profit and loss, work and United States in 1950. Receiv- economic principles. wages and the business cycle. ing the first economics Ph.D. from renowned Austrian eco- This summer, Grove City Dr. Sennholz will teach the nomic theorist Ludwig von College, in cooperation with class from the perspective of Mises at New York University, the Foundation for Economic Austrian School Economics, he launched a career of writ- Education (FEE), will offer the offering a reprieve from col- ing, teaching and lecturing, opportunity to do just that. A lege textbooks that applaud which has brought him all over nine-day summer course in socialistic "achievements," the globe and won him two principles of economics, to be class warfare and exploitation honorary degrees. held from June 1 to June 9, economics. will offer three academic cred- In the course of his academic its of study under a noted free- Further information on the career, Dr. Sennholz has pub- market economist. course is available by contact- lished many books and book- ing Dr. John Sparks. lets, and more than 500 essays Dr. Hans F. Sennholz, presi- and articles. Among the titles dent of the FEE and professor An internationally renowned are: Moneda y Libertad, 1961; emeritus of economics at advocate of free enterprise, Dr. Gold is Money, 1975; Death Grove City College, will be Sennholz retired from GCC in and Taxes, 1976, 1981; Age of teaching the class on the GCC May of 1992 after 35 years of Inflation, 1979; Money and campus. Dr. Sennholz will de- teaching. He then assumed the Freedom, 1985; The Politics of Dr. Richard Trammell of the philosophy department, liver four stimulating lectures role of president of FEE, a Unemployment, 1987; and Mrs. Lois Hamilton of the fine arts department and Dr. each day, with time in the af- non-profit educational organi- Debts and Deficits, 1987. Robert Mueller of the engineering department spoke at ternoon to read and relax. zation in Irvington-on-Hudson, More recently, he has moved last Thursday's Faculty Scholarship Evening sponsored New York. into the audio-cassette world. by Pi Gamma Mu. The event featured art, research pro- The course is designed to in- His Ten Predictions for 1991 jects, published writings and books by college faculty troduce students to the basic Born in Brombauer, West- and his Market Analysis Series members and administrators. Mrs. Hamilton holds a principles of the private-prop- phalia, he received his M.A. deals with his eminent finan- piece of art she produced using a camcorder and a com- erty individual-enterprise sys- from the University of Mar- cial forecasting. In 1990, eight puter stylus pen. SEE STORY ON PAGE 3 tem. The subject matter will burg in 1948 and his Dr. Rer. of his 10 forecasts came to deal with economic phenom-- Pol. from the University of pass.