Scavenger hunts, like treasure hunts after them, are informal
events that everybody can participate in. They are bucket loads of
fun, with students running around the campus, begging,
borrowing and stealing. The list for scavenger hunts can range
from straightforward to bizarre things like the feather of our
national bird, photograph with the union president, a girl with
seven piercings, a futch in a black shirt or a polka dotted scarf (all
real examples from scavenger hunts I have participated in) The
students take this game very seriously, often accosting clueless
people and demanding photographs of them because their hair is
of a certain shade or they are wearing Lakme’s burnt rose nail
paint or some such thing.