2008 Woodie Awards
Not an average scavenger hunt
Jennifer DeMoss
Issue date: 3/12/07 Section: Inside WCC
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Team HoJo Transfer, a group of five Oberlin College students, set out from Oberlin, Ohio, on Feb. 2 with a mission; several missions in fact. At some point in their trip to Michigan, while the WCC campus sat inactive and unsuspecting over that bitterly cold February weekend, the Oberlin students paid a visit. At least one person got naked at WCC. The camera clicked, a nudie photo was taken, and one more goal in HoJo Transfer's journey to success was complete.
HoJo Transfer, whose infamous name will be explained further in the story, was participating in an Ultimate Frisbee Scavenger Hunt, according to a story in the Oberlin Review, the school's newspaper. The event consisted of teams of players who competed by creatively completing a series of challenges from an enormous list.
"Some of the crazier things we did were streak through a mall, drink a gallon of chocolate milk in an hour, [eat] 12 hot dogs in 12 minutes (although I did it in 4 minutes), play the most offensive song on a jukebox in a public place (Elton John in a sketchy biker looking bar)," wrote team member Bryce Fotiu-Wojtowicz in an email interview about the 36 hour ordeal.
Students got points for distance traveled, and the team, which consisted of Fotiu-Wojtowicz, Megan Lubin, Kyle Demars-Johnson, Luke Herrine, and Aaron Parker, covered 700 miles. Fotiu-Wojtowicz's parents live near Michigan State, and they paid naked visits to other Michigan campuses - Eastern Michigan University and Concordia, to name a few - on their way.
"We also took a side trip to Canada to both complete the task of going across the border and points for getting a poker chip from a casino," wrote Fotiu-Wojtowicz.
There were many other requirements for the scavenger hunt. HoJo Transfer had to bring back "presents for the judges, naked pictures in the shower, naked pictures not in the shower," among other items. Fotiu-Wojtowicz recalled that shaving a naked Herrine in the shower was photographed for the team's "most compromising position." But the team's moniker came from the most disgusting act that occurred on the trip: the HoJo Transfer. It put them over the top in the competition, and caught the attention of fark.com.
HoJo Transfer, whose infamous name will be explained further in the story, was participating in an Ultimate Frisbee Scavenger Hunt, according to a story in the Oberlin Review, the school's newspaper. The event consisted of teams of players who competed by creatively completing a series of challenges from an enormous list.
"Some of the crazier things we did were streak through a mall, drink a gallon of chocolate milk in an hour, [eat] 12 hot dogs in 12 minutes (although I did it in 4 minutes), play the most offensive song on a jukebox in a public place (Elton John in a sketchy biker looking bar)," wrote team member Bryce Fotiu-Wojtowicz in an email interview about the 36 hour ordeal.
Students got points for distance traveled, and the team, which consisted of Fotiu-Wojtowicz, Megan Lubin, Kyle Demars-Johnson, Luke Herrine, and Aaron Parker, covered 700 miles. Fotiu-Wojtowicz's parents live near Michigan State, and they paid naked visits to other Michigan campuses - Eastern Michigan University and Concordia, to name a few - on their way.
"We also took a side trip to Canada to both complete the task of going across the border and points for getting a poker chip from a casino," wrote Fotiu-Wojtowicz.
There were many other requirements for the scavenger hunt. HoJo Transfer had to bring back "presents for the judges, naked pictures in the shower, naked pictures not in the shower," among other items. Fotiu-Wojtowicz recalled that shaving a naked Herrine in the shower was photographed for the team's "most compromising position." But the team's moniker came from the most disgusting act that occurred on the trip: the HoJo Transfer. It put them over the top in the competition, and caught the attention of fark.com.
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