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News from the Keweenaw Peninsula Updated February 8, 2002 Text and Photo © 2002 Michele Anderson except where otherwise noted.

MTU students work all night at "Snowy Re-Creations"

HOUGHTON -- Michigan Tech students enjoyed a bit of warm sunshine Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 6, as they resumed work on "Snowy Re-Creations of Worldly Destinations with the 4 p.m. dismissal of classes for Winter Carnival. While groups who have been working for a whole month on such elaborate snow and ice structures as a "Disneyesque" Magic Kingdom, the Sainte Chapelle of Paris, the Taj Mahal and a Venetian palace, others began their entries in the "One-Nighter" competition -- required to complete their entry by 8 a.m. on Thursday. Winners are expected to be announced about 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7.

Members of the Kappa Delta Psi fraternity put the finishing touches on their elaborate creation, "100 Years of Magic Frozen in Time" on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 6.

In front of the Walker Arts and Humanities Center on campus, Jason Ostrenga of the First Year Experience (FYE) residence hall group, smoothes out a wall of a snowy version of the Sainte Chapelle, former royal residence of French kings in Paris, while Max Dehtiar assists. (This is a progress photo. Keweenaw Now captured Max making bricks for the structure last Friday, Feb. 1.)

Jaimie Austin, left, of Houghton, and Debbie Shepley of Munising, members of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, "teeter-totter" to raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis. Each member of the group is contributing an hour and a half for a total of 36 hours of continuous teeter-tottering for the charity. In the background other sorority members work on the Delta Phi Epsilon "Sphinx" snow structure near the Library on campus.

Delta Phi Epsilon members, from right, Katie Rohrbacher of Maumee, Ohio; Laura Meyers of Houghton; and Erica Noelke of Port Sanilac, Mich., work on the sorority's "Sphinx" creation on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 6.

Nichole Johnson, left, of Iron Mountain, Mich., fills in spaces with "slush" while Colleen Lareau of Livonia, Mich., irons the walls of their "Taj Mahal" to flatten them. The two students are members of the Phi Delta Chi sorority.

Chan Benton of Oxford, Mich., pauses in his work to pose in front of the Sigma Phi Epsilon snow structure on Wednesday, Feb. 6. Although Benton would not reveal the title, the statues in the gondola in the foreground suggest a Venetian palace.

Students from the Citadel Residence Hall in Wadsworth begin their "One-Nighter" construction -- a snow cow Sphinx.

MTU students of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity in Hancock work on their snow sculpture for Winter Carnival 2002. (Photo by Adam Johnson of Brockit Solutions. Reprinted with permission.)

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