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Scav Hunt
Snell-Hitchcock wins Scav
13 May 2008
After a weekend of campus-, city-, and nationwide pandemonium, Snell-Hitchcock residents emerged the victors of this year’s Scav Hunt. ...
Scav Hunt festivities consume campus
09 May 2008
Smiling, formally dressed students carrying umbrellas and parasols greeted passersby along the main quadrangles Thursday morning...
Snell-Hitchcock takes Scav
15 May 2007
After three whirlwind days of scavenging, a 2,300-mile road trip through eight states, and a nine-hour “Judgment” held in Ida Noyes Hall on Sunday, the 2007 University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt h...
Scav Hunters kick off frenzy to finish
11 May 2007
With a characteristic blend of whimsy, obscure trivia, and wit, this year’s list of items for Scav Hunt teams to achieve, perform, and obtain covers a dizzying array of subjects. ...
Why I Scav, why you should too, and why it's good for us
08 May 2007
During the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt became world famous for promoting her theory of the “banality of evil.”...
Alumni couple proves that all is fair in love and Scav Hunt
01 May 2007
One could be forgiven for calling Colin McFaul and Nora Friedman the archetypical University of Chicago couple...
Geeks, Scav Hunters plunder chemistry lab
24 Apr 2007
Searle Chemistry Laboratory became the one-stop shop for lab paraphernalia, Scav Hunt supplies, and professors’ trash-turned-chem-geeks’ treasures last week as students looted leftovers in the bu...
Wet Hot American Scav Hunt begins
10 May 2002
The University's annual Scavenger Hunt, for which past contestants have built a plutonium-producing breeder reactor, launched a Twinkie over the law school library, and acquired a live elephant, ...
Former students document Scav Hunt
12 Nov 2002
Every spring, the stereotypically reserved students of the University of Chicago cut loose as they devote four days, not to studying, but to scavenging...
Palevsky wins Scav Hunt for second year
13 May 2003
Chicago physical therapist Dana Barone was walking to Ida Noyes Hall Sunday morning to help train some cyclists in the Monsters of the Midway bicycle tournament when a group came running toward h...
Scav Hunt grips University: After list found Thursday morning, students put aside work, sleep, sanity to compete in spring quarter tradition
09 May 2003
"It's a crazy time around here at the University," said Mihai Sturdza, a first-year in the College, as he dropped off another student in his homemade rickshaw, made out of a broken chair and an i...
Campus gears up for annual Scav Hunt
04 May 2004
As spring fills the air and Scavenger Hunt approaches, team captains are recruiting members, dragging prospective building materials out of local dumpsters, and securing headquarters for the four...
UVA scav hunters imitate U of C annual tradition over break
02 Apr 2004
Members of the Federation of Independent Scavenger Hunt Teams (FIST) traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia over spring break to participate in and judge the University of Virginia's (UVa) first i...
Scav Hunter devours umbilical-cord Twinkie
11 May 2004
Last Sunday, an awed crowd of students and cameramen from NBC -5 in Ida Noyes watched in anticipation as Phil Caruso, a first-year in the College and Rickert House resident, completed item #8 on ...
This is Scav Hunt
11 May 2004
The Cloister Club in Ida Noyes is known to host activities as varied as dance marathons, Blues and Ribs, and high school proms...
Scav Hunt gets ready, aims, fires
07 May 2004
It's that time of year again, when students are not surprised to see grass growing greener, flowers blooming, and giant wieners running around the quads...
Scav Hunt road trip diary
17 May 2005
Every year a portion of the Scav Hunt list items can only be completed by undertaking a road trip. I was part of this year's Max Palevsky's road trip team and kept a running diary...
Snell-Hitchcock ties with Max for top Scav Hunt team
10 May 2005
After four days of sleep deprivation, intellectual improvisation, wince-worthy stunts and promises of wedded bliss, Scav Hunt '05 proved too close to call...
Teams compete as Scav Hunt craziness sets in
06 May 2005
If your roommate, lab T.A., or significant other has disappeared in the last few days, do not despair...
Make Scav about a product, not a process
26 May 2006
The annual University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt is arguably the greatest anywhere, by any standard anyone chooses to adoptscope, creativity, enthusiasm, and more....
Scav Hunt party in Cobb shut down
16 May 2006
University officials shut down the Scavenger Hunt party in Cobb Hall on Friday evening because of the attendees unruly conduct, which included vomiting and urinating publicly in the building....
Max Palevsky’s Team Wombat conquers Scav competition
16 May 2006
Sunday evening in Ida Noyes must have looked strange to outsiders...
Scavvies prioritize, forget about sleep
12 May 2006
Scav Hunt 2006 commenced in silence late Wednesday night at the Regenstein Library, where judges presented teams with a fake course syllabus that, when deciphered using real library call numbers,...
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