Across Campus - A Photo Essay
The annual Pumpkin Drop sponsored by the Old Dominion University Society of Physics Students (SPS) has become a popular autumn event on campus over the past two decades. This year the competition may have been the most intense ever. Each entrant - usually teams of students - is challenged to build a portable contraption that can "catch" a pumpkin dropped from atop the nine-story Batten Arts & Letters Building. Photos by Chuck Thomas and David B. Hollingsworth.