“She was blindfolded, put in a car, taken to Midway Airport and told she was flying to Vegas”

May 9, 2008 in Uncategorized by Kate Shepherd | No comments

In the basement of Pierce tower, the TAANSTAFL snack bar has been transformed into the headquarters for MacPierce, Maclean and Pierce’s Scav team.  It is scattered with boxes, bags, musical instruments and plenty of supplies for Scav.

Members of MacPierce’s “The University of Chicago School of Engineering” Scav team think fondly of their rival teams.

“We’re really big fans of the Snell-Hitchcock team.  The captains are great,” said second-year Ezra Deutsch-Feldman, one of MacPierce’s team captains.  “We don’t feel animosity towards the other teams.  They want us to do well.”

“I’m really happy with the team this year. We’re energetic and creative,” he said.

According to Deutsch-Feldman, the team has completed Item 17d, have a beer with a current candidate for national office, but is keeping the identity of the candidate a secret for now.

Deutsch-Feldman especially enjoyed completing the “Stack-Man” item in the Regenstein Library last night.

“It’s like real life Pac-Man but in the Reg and ridiculous,” he said.

The team is also proud of their “Scav Warrior”, fourth-year and former team captain Sarah Watson, who is currently in Las Vegas competing for the team on her own scavenger hunt, Deutsch-Feldman said.

“We sent her to the Reynolds Club at 3:30 Thursday morning.  She was blindfolded, put in a car, taken to Midway Airport and told she was flying to Vegas,” he said.

This year, the team includes participants from Maclean House and all four houses in Pierce.  Before this year the houses were not equally represented, according to Deutsch-Feldman.

Maclean did not have a Scav team until it allied with Pierce in 2006.  Then first-year Maclean resident Lindsey Uhl and some of her fellow residents wanted to compete so Pierce offered them an alliance.  This year, Maclean has become a big force in the team, Uhl said.

“It got us into scavenging without having to start from nothing,” she said. “It’s really a lot of fun.  This is a great team.”

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