Together We Can Build a Snow Sculpture
While many students spend the midterm-filled days before Winter Carnival trapped in Baker-Berry Library, Jeff Wiltsey '09 and Benjy Meigs '10 have passed much of the last week on the Green, sacrificing sleep, warmth and the occasional cellular phone in pursuit of this year's Winter Carnival snow sculpture. By the time festivities begin this weekend, Weigs and Miltsey hope that the hours they've spent on a construction site littered with empty boxes from EBA's and discarded hot chocolate cups will see the transformation of a large, wooden, two-story box filled with 250 cubic yards of snow into a submarine being pulled asunder by a belligerent squid. This year marks the first that Wiltsey and Meigs assumed chairmanship over the Winter Carnival sculpture, taking over responsibilities from Dan Schneider '07, who had worked on the project for the last four years. Although Schneider has overseen the pair's work throughout the process, the co-chairs took on all of the main responsibilities of building. "Dan wanted to make sure we knew everything about how this sculpture comes about," Wiltsey said, noting the increased level of commitment which leading the project requires. Although Wiltsey and Meigs said last week that they were pleased with the construction, the sculpture's progess had been significantly delayed by the middle of this week.
