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Bwog will admit to a slight fascination with the Society of Automotive Engineers. We've swooned over their homemade car, we've felt their pain as their ABC allocation shrunk, and today, we shared in their elation when tipster Jonathan Battat informed us that SAE placed 67th (the team's highest ranking to date) at the Formula SAE competition in Michigan. 2008's FSAE was also the first in which the CU team completed every event.

Pictures from the event are available here, here, and here. Congrats, engineers!


Bwog noticed a circle of six or so boys standing around a homemade car, which is currently parked on Low plaza. The car is the project of the Columbia Society of Automotive Engineers who will compete in a major race next week in Detroit against 140 other teams.

Members of the SAE stood proudly around their creation and bragged to Bwog that the car goes from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds and can reach a speed of 120 mph. "Though you wouldn't want to drive it that fast," one SAEer warned. The car's not street legal, but the team half-seriously speculated that maybe some fenders and a bumper or two would do the trick.

You can watch videos (thanks to a handy Helmet Cam) of the SAE taking it out for a test drive here and after the jump


Bwog almost didn't notice that Teacher's College Director of Admissions Tom Rock was practically nixed off of CBS's The Amazing Race 10 tonight. According to tipster Stephen Wang, "There was sweat, there were tears, and all in the middle of a rice paddy." Tom Rock is on the show with his partner Terry. Good luck, dudes.


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