Archive from the Spring 2002 semester.

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The Redesign of a Ski-Binding System to Reduce the Incidence and/or Grade of Knee Injuries

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David Manthei

Hometown: West Salem, WI

Academic Studies: Biomedical Engineering - Biomechanics

Hobbies: Reading, Video Games, and Sports (in non-existent free time)

Favorite Food: Meat and Pasta

Favorite Beverages: Water, especially in the form of Beer, Gin, or Whiskey

Favorite Madison Restaurant: Restaurant Magnus

Favorite Band/Musician: Hum, Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, and to support the Wisconsin scene The Promise Ring

Favorite Television Shows: Family Guy (cancelled), Futurama (soon to be cancelled), Letterman, South Park

Favorite Movies: Casablanca, Citizen Kane, any Hitchcock or Kubrick, and for >fun Fight Club and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

Favorite Book: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Great Gatsby, and Tolkien

Pets: None

Most serious skiing injury: Bruised and battered ego

Most serious injury overall: Spontaneous Pneumothorax (collapsed lung), assorted Broken Bones

Ski Quote: to quote Southpark "pizza...french fries...pizza...french fries" & "We can't keep track of when you pizza and when you french fries and when the hot-shot asshole skier takes your girl if you're supposed to race him the first time or train first to beat him on the really difficult mountain so you can save the dorky but hot girl's youth center...skiing sucks!"

Life Plan: Go to graduate school and finish figuring out what I want to do for a living, whether that be academic, clinical, or industrial. Be involved in research in whatever field I endeaveor. Travel for fun, finish reading the Modern Library's top 100 of the 20th century, and the AFI's top 100 films.

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