(Posted at 11:15)
The University of Chicago’s 2008 Scavenger Hunt, affectionately referred to as “Scav Hunt,” officially begins at midnight when the judges release their ten-plus page list. But for third-year Ross Kelly, the scavenging began five weeks ago.
Kelly lives in Snell-Hitchcock, a dorm known both as last year’s winning team and as the most notoriously enthusiastic pair of houses in the competition. Kelly is one of dozens of team members who dug through campus dumpsters and dragged everything from rotting wood to PVC pipe through the rain last April in preparation for the ridiculously obscure, physically demanding and just plain absurd items that are sure to be on this year’s list.
“You never know what you’ll have to build,” said Kelly, who is also the team’s designated “ManlyCon,” and therefore in-charge of constructing items that require power-tools.