University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt Returns

mresolver writes "We've discussed it in previous years, and now the world's largest scavenger hunt at the University of Chicago has returned. The event may be best known for the working breeder reactor students built for the 1999 hunt. This year, some of the 330 list items (PDF) include 3-D (and 4-D) Twister, a hand-built Theremin, a recreation of the Moon landing, the world's largest Newton's Cradle, and hyperbolic crocheting."

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PDF sucks

[slimey_limey]

What is up with PDF documents? (In this case, the list of items.) Why can't people just use normal hypertext? It makes it harder for people like me to view.

Scavenger Hunt less attended

[Phoenix666]

than even Kuviasungnerk (the winter festival that involves getting up before dawn to do calisthenics by the lakeshore in the snow). U of Chicago invents these weird activities for students to have "fun" while obliterating student-created traditions like SleepOut (camping out on the main quad to register for classes) or the Lascivious Ball (students and professors dressing in lingerie and attending a gothic ball). Thus, no one attends them.

U of C students have variously dubbed the university as the place where "fun goes to die" or where "hell DOES freeze over." In the 90's a national ranking of party schools placed it dead last, below even West Point, the Naval Academy, and Brigham Young University. All of this is deserved, since aside from killing student traditions as soon as they rear their heads, they also have never thought to build a student center or to allow the EL stops that reach campus to operate so that Hyde Park residents might be able to escape the neighborhood once in a while.

In short, the Scavenger Hunt is not worth valorizing, nor the institution that holds it. Friends don't let friends have anything to do with the University of Chicago.