Fall 2006 in Review

IUP Geography and Regional Planning Department Picnic

Getty Heights Park, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Once again, the faculty faced off against the students in the annual, no-holds-barred death match of athletic competition. Despite the bi-modal split in the age cohorts of the faculty softball squad (i.e. aging men and little kids), the profs held their own against a younger, fitter, louder student team.

This image captures the critical play of the game when Dr. Benhart stretched a triple into a home run, sliding into the plate just ahead of the ball.

Gracious members of the student team signify that their professors are #1.

Better luck next year.

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The Official IUP Geography and Regional Planning Department

Demolition Derby Car

     It came to be that Dr. Watts thought painting a demolition derby car would be a good design challenge for his planning students.

     Thus was born...

Petrolsaurus

 Master demolition man, Jim Halliwell, puts Petrolsaurus through its paces before entering it in the Indiana County Fair Demolition Derby.

Alas, the Demolition Derby was rained out that year, and so Petrolsaurus was entered into the next best event....

Homecoming Parade!

The global gas guzzling message didn't quite fit the "Great Works in Literature" theme of the parade, but people along the route were reasonably sure they had read 'Petrolsaurus' is some English class or another.

Petrolsaurus was squeezed in behind the local haunted house float, but ahead of the Humane Society, and almost immediately attracted a crew of serendipitous float riders.

...And the crowd went wild...

     The Halliwell family did eventually enter Petrolsaurus into a demolition derby...

where it was promptly wrecked.