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B-J dethrones Snitchcock at Scav

During Scavenger hunt weekend, caged animals sparked discussion about ethics and safety of Scav.

By Harunobu Coryne, Benjamin Pokross

Curious students marvel at the tiger brought to the Midway by the Snell Hitchcock scav team on Sunday. / Jamie Manley 

Car crashes. Big cats. A four-year dynasty kicked from its throne. Is this Hollywood’s latest summer blockbuster? No, just Mother’s Day at the U of C.

Burton-Judson (B-J) took the winning spot from Snell-Hitchcock after a four-year streak, while a pair of road-trip car accidents and caged animals on the Midway have led some to question the safety and spirit of the University tradition.

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Judgment Day took place at Ida Noyes on Sunday, during which judges tabulated points and declared the winner.

B-J’s 2011 team, John D. Rockefeller and the Captains of Injury, won first place in this year’s Hunt after securing, among other things, a pair of Grammy Awards and a live lion.

 

Lion and tiger cause uproar

B-J helped to foot the $1,200 bill for the big cat with the assistance of The Rahmones (Maclean and Pierce), Phoenix Envy (Max Palevsky), Scampi People, Dear Judges (South Campus), and Blintzkrieg (Broadview, Stony Island and Flint).

The group mobilized after the The Dark Side of the Quad (Snell-Hitchcock) raised $1,100 in one day to acquire a tiger. Both the lion and the tiger were unloaded onto the Midway from trucks on Saturday afternoon, safely confined to their cages.

The high price of the two animals, as well as the cages that contained them as they snarled out at a crowd of hundreds, have led some to doubt the ethics and “Scavviness” of item number 265: “A lion, tiger, or bear. With trainer. On campus.”

Breckinridge initially led the charge for collectively renting the lion, but backed out over ethical concerns regarding bringing the animal to campus. “We didn’t think it was a good item, we didn’t think it was a good representation of what Scav is about,” third-year and Breckinridge Team Captain James Townsend said.

The team sent an e-mail to the Scav judges, arguing that the item was not in the spirit of the Hunt. Instead, to fulfill the item’s requirements, they staged a skit involving a student in a bear suit and brought a Cub Scout to campus, Townsend said.

“The total cost per animal was somewhere around $1,200 just for the afternoon,” Townsend said. “What it got down to was that it would be these teams buying points.”

According to Townsend, the other teams ultimately secured their lion from the Chicago-based company Animal Rentals, Inc., which also provided Snell-Hitchcock’s tiger.

Fourth-year and Snell-Hitchcock Captain Nikolaj Zemesarajs argued that Snell-Hitchcock’s success was not due to superior resources. But, he admitted that the tiger’s $1,100-per-hour price tag was “completely ridiculous.”

Instead of appropriating its Scav budget for the animal, Zemesarajs said, the team solicited its roughly 100 participants for $20 donations. After first contacting Animal Rentals, Inc., on Friday morning, the team was able to raise enough money for the full cost by later that night.

“A lot of people think Hitchcock has a lot of money for Scav,” he said, “but we have nowhere near that kind of money for a tiger.”

Fourth-year and Scav Head Judge Grace Chapin maintained that, while certain Scav items are bound to be expensive, a high price tag does not necessarily take away from the creativity required. “We never put an item on the list assuming that the only way to get it done is to pay someone to do it,” she said, citing an item on last year’s list, which three teams completed at no cost, that called for a $3 million Stradivarius violin.

Breckinridge’s complaints weren’t all about the money, though.

“The big issue [was] potential exploitation of animals—the guy we were dealing with for the lion, the tiger, the bear, whatever, seemed like a really shady character,” Townsend said. “He was demanding cash on delivery, he didn’t know anything about where the animals were coming from.”

However, according to Chapin, the Office of the Reynolds Club and Student Activities (ORCSA) stipulated that the animal trainers have proper certification—an order both Flint Captain Polly Faust and Zemesarajs agree was obeyed.

“Some of the teams felt uncomfortable,” Faust said. “B-J checked it out a lot, made sure the company had all their permits in order and didn’t have any violations or anything,” she added.

“The guy brought a lot of paperwork to campus,” Zemesarajs said of the tiger trainer.

ORCSA, which vets the Scav list every year to make sure that none of the items are too dangerous, also required that both the lion and the tiger remain within their cages at all times and that they stay off of University property–hence the showcase occurring on the Midway, which belongs to the City of Chicago.

“Our guidelines came from ORCSA and the Risk Management[, Audit, and Safety] office,” Chapin said. Though she declined to comment on the ethical questions raised in Breckinridge’s boycott, she said that the judges do not list any items without the expectation that students will take them seriously. “When we write items, we fully expect that people will do them,” she said. “We’ve learned never to be surprised by what Scavvies can do.”

Representatives of Animal Rentals, Inc. could not be contacted in time for this article.

http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2011/5/10/b-j-dethrones-snitchcock-at-scav

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