<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/212f0267-f797-497e-ba99-40f0d142418b/B69A1875-6801-4E90-BBD6-3EAEE07D29D3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Take-Sledgehammers-to/8602/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en" href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Take-Sledgehammers-to/8602/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en" style="font-size: 11px;">chronicle.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Take-Sledgehammers-to/8602/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en"><H1 class="title">Students Take Sledgehammers to Computers to Raise Money</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Take-Sledgehammers-to/8602/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en"><P class="byline">By <A href="http://chronicle.com/blogAuthor/Wired-Campus/5/Simmi-Aujla/130/">Simmi Aujla</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Take-Sledgehammers-to/8602/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en"><P>For five hours last Friday, Tyler Penrod watched his fellow students at Purdue University take sledgehammers to computers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Take-Sledgehammers-to/8602/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en"><P>Mr. Penrod, a senior at Purdue and president of a computer-animation club at the university, organized the event with other club leaders to raise travel funds for students to attend a national computer-animation conference. A local computer store donated old computers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Take-Sledgehammers-to/8602/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en"><P>At Purdue, where many students take computer-related courses, "everyone has frustrations at a computer at one point or another," Mr. Penrod said. "So it's always a popular event."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Take-Sledgehammers-to/8602/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en"><P>Students paid $1 for the privilege of destroying a machine. Organizers of the event, in its third year, follow safety guidelines used for car-smashing events, which are hosted by fraternities on the campus.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B69A1875-6801-4E90-BBD6-3EAEE07D29D3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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