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April 3, 2009

Where's Bob?

Where's Bob?

Where did university photographer Bob Elbert find this set of towering tubes?

Answer

University photographer Bob Elbert is looking skyward from the northeast corner of the Applied Science I building. It is part of the Applied Sciences complex northwest of campus on Scholl Road.

The small pipes are the venting for fuel tanks, and the large pipes are exhaust stacks for an emergency generator.