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Sculpture plays important role in Carnival

By Jack Vaitiyanonta | February 10, 1995

With this year's return to the elaborate frame technique of building snow sculptures, the 1995 Winter Carnival promises to restore vitality and renown to this famous College tradition. The sculpture -- a wolf perched on a rock howling at the moon -- is a product of a building technique used more than 20 years ago, which involves packing snow around a frame made of wood and chicken wire. The snow sculpture, the physical embodiment of Carnival, became a College tradition when students built a gateway of blocks on Alumni Field in 1925.