[plug] Would this be a good promotional gig?

[Leon Brooks]

(no rego needed) We should start one here... (-:

http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-page.html?res=9A0DEEDB133EF93AA25756C0A96F958260

    ''People think of the University of Chicago and they think the
    students are weird,'' says Tom Howe, a junior from Atlanta. Having
    taken off his chicken suit, he is wearing a cardboard crown from a
    Burger King Kid's Meal. ''We want to show that intellectual doesn't
    necessarily mean stuffy.'' 

    It is this philosophy -- that Chicago students can have fun if they
    really put their minds to it -- that gave birth to the University of
    Chicago Scavenger Hunt, a yearly celebration of looniness at a campus
    far better known for its Nobel laureates.

    [...much chomped...]

    And if you can't say fun at the U. of C., with a little torque and a
    keg toss, certainly you can with a nuclear reactor. 

    Two physics majors, Justin Kasper and Fred Niell, gathered up some
    spare junk from their physics labs and dorm rooms and built a
    plutonium-producing reactor. 

    ''It's kind of scary how easy it was to do,'' said Mr. Niell, assuring
    onlookers that there was only a trace of plutonium -- nothing harmful.
    ''It only took us about a day to build it. We've been thinking about it
    for a few days and we gathered the parts, and last night we assembled
    it. In Justin's room -- he lost the coin toss.''

Cheers; Leon