So this year for the President's Challenge, which is for financial aid to
bring the best to Lafayette, we're going to have you do a series of challenges. It'll
take you all over campus. In engineering we really care about design and that
means thinking of something that never existed before and asking, "Why not?" Your
first clue is hidden here in this racecar. Once you've found it, you'll know
what to do next. Good luck.
Hi, welcome to the Art Study Center. Behind me hangs a 19th-century painting
long associated with a poem from the same period by Felicia Hemans. Can you
identify this painting based on these opening lines from the poem? The breaking
waves dashed high on a stern and rockbound coast and the woods against a
stormy sky. Their giant branches tossed and the
heavy night hung dark. The hills and water o'er when a band of exiles moored
their bark on the wild New England shore. The person who correctly identifies the
painting will get the next clue and a head start. I think it's this one. That's
correct. Next clue.
Yo guys, presidential challenge? Yes. Come on up. So you know this is the geology
department, and in particular my interests are in volcanoes. Your
challenge is somewhere in this building. There is melted rock which solidified
inside the earth and developed a texture very much like the spots on a leopard.
You got it? Yes, it's an orbicular granite, it's 2.7 million years old.
Nope. It's an orbicular granite but it's 2.7 billion years old.
Yep. Thank you.
Welcome to the magnificent Kirby Hall of Civil Rights Library. Our story sort of
involves the portrait that you saw coming in the door. That's John Marshall,
the fourth chief justice of the United States. Your clue is going to involve
though one of Marshall's greatest decisions, Marbury vs. Madison in 1803. So
somewhere on those shelves in that section is a book dealing with Marbury
vs. Madison. Whoever brings me that book will be the winner of this challenge.
Good luck.
I got it.
Well done. Thank you. Congratulations, you're the winner. You brought the best.
Congratulations, Maddie. You had me from the first clue,
and I just couldn't catch up. Well, you know, you were a great competitor, Ryan. Thanks
for doing this with me. It was really neck and neck at times, but I had fun,
and that's the most important part. Yeah, there's always the next time.