A group of finalists have found a new way to fill their time now their degrees are done: a series of challenges designed to encompass student life.
Graduands have created a Facebook group, complete with a list of challenges that teams of five to seven should complete.
The same-sex teams have 65 tasks to complete in five categories: drink, food, activities, pulling and sex. The game has been running since Week 7 and is due to finish after Big D this Thursday.
Drinking tasks range from consuming 60 pints per team at Woodstock to the ‘Crate escape’ – where two team members drink 15 cans of alcohol whilst sitting on some kind of raft on the Ouse or University Lake.
Not all tasks are quite as dangerous, though probably just as uncomfortable. Task 16 instructs each competitor to eat a family bucket of KFC in an hour, while #23 calls for eating a dry Weetabix in under a minute.
A third-year History participant who wished to remain anonymous said she thought the challenges were a great idea. “I love it, I think it’s a great way to fill the time I’ve suddenly discovered I have.”
She didn’t seem so keen on some of the challenges though. With graduation approaching, she noted that she’d “really quite like to look good on my last day in York – I don’t think a family bucket of KFC’s going to help that happen!”
Activities range from swimming in the lake to kissing a porter on the lips, and pulling challenges include getting with someone without ever speaking to them before (notes are allowed, Facebook is not).
The final category demands sex in various campus locations, including the library, quiet place, lecture theatres and a college bar or JCR.
It remains to be seen who’s going to win the challenge, but Vision reckons graduands at Big D could be a sight to behold.