Crescat Dementia!

Youtube Videos: Finnish wife race, Slinky goes up stairs, Reynolds Club “Rickrolled”

Mischa Fierer — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:15 +0000

Slinky goes up stairs Other videos after the jump. ”That Guy” Action Figure - UChicago Scav Hunt 2008 - BJ Scav Hunt 2008 - Rickrolled! Scav Olympics 2008 - Finnish Wife Race Pt 1 Scav Olympics 2008 - Finnish Wife [...]

Professor Woowan Kang explains how to “cram graham”

Mischa Fierer — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:27 +0000

U of C Student Zaid Alawi wrote a fun story about a physics professor, Wikipedia, and breakfast cereal. Over on his blog there are a few other Scav stories as well. The best is his saga of getting physics professor Woowan Kang to explain “why kids love the great taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch TM.”Here’s the [...]

Still standing

Tim Murphy — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:57:19 +0000

Mischa mentioned earlier the bounty placed upon this fine literary institution by the Scav judges. Snell–Hitchcock succeeded in taking down Claire McNear’s Bartlett balloon Thursday morning, but I hardly think their effort here qualifies as “taking down the Maroon”:

Vegas, baby. Vegas.

Tim Murphy — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:43:56 +0000

Fourth-year Tim Froh of Broover, Fourth-year David Pisano of Snell–Hitchcock, and sociology graduate student Dan Kimmell of G.A.S.H. proudly display items #6 and #10. On judgment day, the first floor of Ida Noyes Hall resembles either a middle-school science fair gone horribly awry, or, alternatively, an episode of Antiques Roadshow, also gone horribly awry. By the [...]

Among the Bedouin

Tim Murphy — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:00:28 +0000

For her team’s Bedouin feast, Broadview second-year Toby Schwartz has assembled one roasted duck, steamed fish, two boiled chickens, 30 or so fried frogs, and what she describes as a camel unicorn skull. If camel unicorns do exist, they have at least never been seen before in the wild, but Schwartz has done her best [...]

Potato Silencer [007 points]

Tim Murphy — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:11:16 +0000

Speaking of B–J, here’s a video of their “Potato Silencer” (item #65):

Item #154: Delicious

Tim Murphy — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:05:56 +0000

For those who like to look their food in the eye as they eat it, B–J’s Bedouin wedding feast (item #154) is a dream come true. In a glass dish, second-year Christine Buras has assembled a smattering of silver-dollar-sized lion fish, a row of butterfish, and one, long, winding, Barracuda—all with a putrid, grayish–brown hue, [...]

Inside Max Palevsky HQ

Chris Salata, Photo Editor — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:24:41 +0000

With less than twelve hours to go before judgment, I decided to stop by the headquarters of the Max Palevsky Scav Hunt team. Pictures are below and continue after the jump. Third-year Dan Wade sleeps on a couch inside headquarters. Fourth-year Jason Finkes presents a sword (item 90) hand forged by members of the Max P. Scav [...]

The mummy returns

Chris Salata, Photo Editor — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:18:05 +0000

In case you were wondering what the mummified rat in Tim Murphy’s previous entry looks like, here is a photo.

“My Child is a Nobel Laureate”

Chris Salata, Photo Editor — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:05:14 +0000

“Item 176: Present an appropriate mom with a bumper sticker that says, “My Child is a Nobel Laureate.” I think you know what font it needs to be in. [20 points] ” Mrs. Myerson, mother of Nobel Prize winner and U of C professor Roger Myerson, holds a bumper sticker designed by Katharine Bierce of the [...]