Are you Scav Material?

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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<p>So the Scav Judges are looking for somebody from each team who fulfills each of the following criteria for a pre-Scav challenge:</p>

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<p>The other limitations include being 21 years old and current UChicago student, so no, you cannot actually participate :-)</p>

<p>I’ll use this thread to update more Scav-related things that litter the internet</p>

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<p>Wow, looks like there’s going to be some sort of backpacking/survival item?</p>

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<p>We’ll see…</p>

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<p>Scav is not for the faint of heart! My son was on his house’s road team last year … where one of the items was performing one of BTO’s songs in a biker bar in Sturgis, ND. I’m still waiting for <em>my</em> copy of the video …</p>

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<p>Snitchcock and Max P play Scav to win. The rest of us play to play and know that we are going to lose, but have an awesome time anyway.</p>

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<p>I would be a great scav, but I am on the wait list. So all you undecideds lean the other way and let me scav away!</p>

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<p>Would a UChicago student voluntarily watch 10,000BC? :P</p>

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<p>Goodness, Bowler Hat, 10,000BC has some stellar … uhm … acting. And it is amusing.</p>

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<p>And the Scav Hunt has begun!!! The list-finding procedure was quite amazing!</p>

<p>Go MacPierce!!!</p>

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<p>The List: <a href=“http://scavhunt1.uchicago.edu/lists/list2008.pdf[/url]”>http://scavhunt1.uchicago.edu/lists/list2008.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It’s great.</p>

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<p>Well, I do know one or two beekeepers…but disgruntled?</p>

<p>Bowler hats available at hat store near six corners, Milwaukee/</p>

<p>Irving Park/Cicero – east of Sears.</p>

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<p>I will be qualified until i’m 21… only if i got off the waitlist.</p>

<p>come on! I even wrote about scav hunt for the essay!!!</p>

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<p>Jcubed, hope you get off the waitlist.</p>

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<p>I love scav. It is one of the few times when having a house full of odd stuff (much of which should have been gotten rid of years ago) is a <em>good</em> thing. We actually had item 215.</p>

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<p>LOL I had that one too.</p>

<p>DS called me to retrieve JCL award.</p>

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<p>the list missed one!</p>

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<li>block non-scav people from using common areas, lounges, or music rooms, irritate the hell out of people walking through the quads or eating in bartlett or trying to get through the dorms, create extra work for university employees and building staff, spam listhosts, kick the general level of awkward creepiness up exponentially.<br></li>
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<p>I know scav must look really quirky and fun from a distance but when people are banging on your door at 2 am looking for a black light or throwing things at you from the bartlett balcony, it loses its charm rather quickly. I’m a little extra-bitter this year because I work for ORCSA facilities now, so I can’t just ignore it when folks trip the fire alarms or flip every piece of furniture in a room upside-down or trash Eckhart quad. Oh, and people straight-up stole some of my equipment. Scav should be taken out back and shot.</p>

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<p>Wait, I have a black light, too.</p>

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<p>jack, I was with you until the part about kicking the general level of awkward creepiness up. I don’t think you could possibly have meant that to be as harsh and disrespectful as it sounds.</p>

<p>I do agree, though, that the scavvies ought to clean up after themselves, return all borrowed equipment, and exercise some discretion about when to pound on peoples’ doors or throw things from balconies.</p>

<p>Apart from that, it IS quirky and fun. And I’m sure it increases ORCSA overtime, so it’s a good thing all around.</p>

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<p>No, I really didn’t. I should have made it clear that the “awkward creepiness” wasn’t at scav in general (nothing really that creepy about a bunch of motivated kids having fun doing nerdy stuff, especially at this school) but at the parts of scav that involve large numbers of men wearing dresses and singing at strangers, etc… Even the scavvies would admit that things in that vein are awkward and creepy, albiet deliberately (it’s not a challenge if it’s easy). </p>

<p>And so it’s totally clear, I don’t <em>seriously</em> believe the careless actions of some scav people are a legitimate reason to be against the whole Scav Hunt. It’s not like they are hurting people or causing substantial damage. I’m just Max Yasgur to their Woodstock.</p>

<p>It’s worth pointing out that to the “outside world” it probably seems like Scav is celebrated campus-wide, when in fact there are quite a few people here who hate it and most people really don’t care about it at all.</p>

<p>edit: to toss in a positive Scav experience, the quad party was awesome; I was the dude ridiculous on red wine jamming with the guys from Leopold & Loeb.</p>

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<p>Well, I have one kid who lived and breathed (but didn’t sleep) Scav for four days, and another who wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot wicker phallus. So I am well aware that Scav is not universally beloved. I think it’s goofy, and funny, and actually pretty sweet. </p>

<p>I suspect if I were a student I would kick in and help on a few items just so I felt I was participating a little, and supporting my friends who were into it, and otherwise I would try to stay out of its way as much as possible. I would definitely go to the party, though, and maybe wander by Judgment to see what people did with some of the items. And of course I would read the list. I do that now.</p>