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Hilltop Photo of the Week
Welcome to Birmingham-Southern's “Hilltop Photo of the Week” webpage and archives. Each week at this site, we'll feature a photo that depicts some aspect of life on the Hilltop campus, along with brief information about what is taking place in the Photo of the Week.
The college welcomes submissions to be considered for the Hilltop Photo of the Week. Scanned or digital photos can be e-mailed to the Office of Communications at pcole@bsc.edu, or photographic prints may be sent through campus mail to Box 549004. Please limit photo submissions to those that depict some aspect of the BSC experience, and be sure to identify what is taking place in the photo, along with location and people involved.
View the Photo of the Week archive here.
Burro days—The 2010 World Championship in Burro Racing took place July 25 in Fairplay, Colo. Two of the 34 participants (an all-time high) were senior psychology major and Harrison Scholar Katie Sack and former BSC Head Coach of Cross Country and Track and Field Lars Porter '04. The burro race was the last of seven races Sack attended for her senior honors project "What Makes Us Run?", which is investigating the culture and community of road racing. The 15-mile burro race celebrates the history of gold mining and the miners' race back to town with the gold they found. Both Sack and Porter discovered that they probably wouldn't have been the first miners home. It took Porter four hours and 15 minutes to drag his donkey, Smokey, and Sack almost six hours to pull her miniature donkey, Blaster, all 15 miles. Some of Sack's other adventures and studies have been the Firstlight Half Marathon in Mobile, the Krispy Kreme Challenge in Raleigh (run 2 miles, eat donuts, run 2 miles back), and the Vision 5K in Boston (run blindfolded with a guide).
