There are likely few packaging schools with a basketball hoop in the lab like at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, home of the Sycamores. Maybe it’s part of the lengthy shadow cast by one of the university’s most famous alumni, Hall of Famer Larry Bird.
The ISU staff acknowledges that it’s going to have to move the hoop, though, but not because it’s inappropriate. Rather, the hoop is mounted uncomfortably close to the packaging lab’s latest donation, a Kongsberg AutoCAD die cutter donated by the ICPF (see sidebar below) that precision-cuts paperboard and corrugated. Rare is the student who can shoot with Bird-like accuracy, especially when the hoop is “guarded” by large equipment.
