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The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt
illuminatedwax writes "Every spring, University of Chicago students attempt to cast off their bookish tendencies and hold the world's largest scavenger hunt. Now, the event has been filmed by the student film group, Fire Escape, as a documentary, and is being sold on DVD and VHS from Periphrastic Films. The film follows the various teams and their effort to procure the off-the-wall 300+ items. For those who haven't heard of the University of Chicago Scav Hunt, its biggest claim to fame is from the 1999 hunt, when
students built a working breeder reactor. Items during the 2002 Scav Hunt featured in the film include "Passports stamped by all three axes of evil", building "terrorist base camps" on the University quads, and students competing in a game show-style contest, featuring a DDR contest, and trivia like "Digits of Pi" and "Taylor Series." The Scav Hunt lists can be found here, and the 2002 list here."
The story about the breeder reactor is hosted on the NYT. Fortunately, the same story can also be found on MSNBC
...http://shorl.com/stat.php?id=futetanerifi&pwd=m afevebrunyfreku
From the sound of it, it doesn't seem like they'll have a problem finding gay......
but are miffed at that pesky registration-only NYT link, you can read the same story at other places too. There's also a book about their most interesting scavenger hunts, which includes the breeder reactor story too.
This "loose coalition" may also be FIST related.
The Scavenger Hunt is by far the greatest part of the University of Chicago. The classes are too hard, the people, concieted, and the courses, nothing whatsoever to do with the real world. but scav hunt is fun, attracts interesting people, and its PRACTICAL - something not to be found at this university!
I am Igor!