Scavenger Hunts?

[naraht]

Some Scavenger Hunt things about APO I've seen.

Positive
I was at a section conference for Alpha Phi Omega where the icebreaker was a scavenger hunt. All attendees (other than the host chapter) were given lists (random 15 out of 30 or something similar) and told to go around campus (small campus) to find them. Asking other attendees for help was just fine. Then when you found them, to mark on the map where they were. RD was fine with this.

I've seen scavenger hunts with digital cameras go pretty well especially where the groups had both brothers and pledges in them...

Negative
The only criminal death in APO that I'm aware of (This was from the early 1990s) was from an underground chapter who gave their pledges a scavenger hunt list and when a pledge went to go steal a rocking chair off of someone's porch the group was chased and one pledge was killed by a guest of the owner of the house.

One chapter in NJ had their charter revoked after the pledges as part of a scavenger hunt sawed the head off of a statue. The brothers, in putting "Head of a Statue" on the list, intended a different statue in the area which did have a removable head.



Scavenger Hunts can be done well, but just sending off the pledges with a list of things to get can have some pretty ugly results.

Randy
Alpha Phi Omega