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Burton-Judson Scavenger Hunt: Saturday (by Burton-Judson Scav)

Item 197: Look, we’re not claiming to be experts here, but we’re pretty sure that a real documentary is supposed to have solemn narration, talking head experts, “Ashokan Farewell”, and the inability to show a still photo for more than two goddamn seconds without panning or zooming. With that in mind, use footage taken throughout the Hunt to create your own brief film in the style of Ken Burns recounting the adversity and triumph faced by your team each day. New episodes, not to exceed 2 minutes each, should be posted on YouTube by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. [20 points]

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Burton-Judson Scavenger Hunt: Friday

Item 197: Look, we’re not claiming to be experts here, but we’re pretty sure that a real documentary is supposed to have solemn narration, talking head experts, “Ashokan Farewell”, and the inability to show a still photo for more than two goddamn seconds without panning or zooming. With that in mind, use footage taken throughout the Hunt to create your own brief film in the style of Ken Burns recounting the adversity and triumph faced by your team each day. New episodes, not to exceed 2 minutes each, should be posted on YouTube by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. [20 points]

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Burton-Judson Scavenger Hunt: Thursday (by Burton-Judson Scav)

Item 197: Look, we’re not claiming to be experts here, but we’re pretty sure that a real documentary is supposed to have solemn narration, talking head experts, “Ashokan Farewell”, and the inability to show a still photo for more than two goddamn seconds without panning or zooming. With that in mind, use footage taken throughout the Hunt to create your own brief film in the style of Ken Burns recounting the adversity and triumph faced by your team each day. New episodes, not to exceed 2 minutes each, should be posted on YouTube by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. [20 points]

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Item 299: Bear down to “Bearforce1” on the Chicago Bears “C”, printed on an actual turf field. No, Stagg Field doesn’t count, but that special piece of sod managed by the Park District and SMG should be worth something extra. [11 points. 5 extra points for Soldier Field]

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Item 100: Accompany a campus tour group! Every time the tour guide talks, play the saddest backing song you can on a single violin. [7 points]

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Item 104:  Has this ever happened to you? No. But it could. Create a one-minute montage of ten plausible informercial-calibre disasters. [6 points]

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Item 306:  Do a living statue routine on campus during the Hunt in one of the following styles: Alexander Calder,

The Shrike, Tree, Washington Crossing the Delaware , Lot’s Wife, Venus de Milo , Laocoön and his

Sons , or a piece of the Fallen Monument Park. [10 points]

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Item 74 Scotland the Brave (by Burton-Judson Scav Hunt)

Help the University save money on convocation this year by having your a capella pipe band learn "Scotland the Brave". [5 points]

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Item 145:  A photograph of your team’s recreation of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte  at Promontory Point, with all participants in costumes from other items on this year’s list. [9 points]

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Olympics - outdoors

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olympics - more outside, and also some inside

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I can hardly find the words to express my joy upon hearing the band assembled spontaneously from the members of many different teams at Vendredi Gras.  It really made the event special.

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Scav Olympics 10: Bring a team member to Scav Olympics with their torso wrapped in duct tape, sticky side out.

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Scav Olympics 7: Sweet Clyde, use variation parameters and expand the Wronskian. Solve a 2nd order linear ODE whilst spinning a basketball on your finger.

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Item 289: Is Jurassic Park about penis envy? Does D2: The Mighty Ducks depict the triumph of objectivism? Is Snakes on a Plane about the plight of the urban immigrant? They say that you can attach a subtext to anything if you look hard enough. So let’s do that!

  Judge Tricky’s Subtext Colloquium was fantastic.  It didn’t make for great photographic opportunities, save for this gentleman who used the image drawn on the board behind him to illustrate The Lion King’s exploration of the themes of police brutality.  If I recall correctly, it represents the deformed power structure brought on by Scar’s coup against the animal kingdom.

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Scav Olympics 8: 3D printer pens may be available soon, but for now good ol’ cans of shaving cream are the best we’ve got! Send us your finest 3D printing humanoid and a partner. Your “printer” will have four minutes and a single can of shaving cream to convey as many clues as possible to their teammate.

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154. Set up a cheering station along Lakeshore Trail between 53rd and 55th streets from 3:00 p.m. until 3:45 p.m. on Saturday. Root for confused runners and bikers who pass you. (10 points, plus 3.1 points if your team is deemed most enthusiastic]