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Students' raunchy scavenger hunt rattles Newton

By Christopher Rowland, Globe Staff, 6/5/2002

NEWTON - Team Twister in your underwear was worth 18 points. A Polaroid of yourself standing naked outside school was good for 15 points, as was performing jumping jacks in the buff.

Those were among the tamer activities that appeared on the list for this year's Newton South High School senior class scavenger hunt.

The event, which took place under cover of darkness last week, is said by school officials to be a decades-old tradition, and not condoned by the school system. But this year Newton police and school officials were not amused.

Police are planning to bring misdemeanor criminal complaints against 12 to 14 students for allegedly stealing signs and highway barrels, vandalizing property, and possessing marijuana. And police and school authorities say this year's hunt tested the limits for raunchy and inappropriate behavior.

The scavenger hunt, they said, has declined from a quest for silly and obscure items to an X-rated game of sex, drinking, drugs, and vandalism.

''Evidently in years past it was much more innocent,'' said Newton South principal Michael Welch. ''However, it has evolved into an event that is at a minimum disturbing and at the other end certainly criminal.''

The hunt began the evening of May 28 and lasted through the night, according to police, with official estimates that up to 150 of the school's 330 seniors participated. By 2 a.m., despite the presence of police who had been tipped off earlier in the evening and were investigating, about 50 students were gathered in the parking lot of a Store 24 on Commonwealth Avenue, swapping stories about the evening's pranks, said John Panica, the Newton Police Department's youth officer.

This year's organizers, who remain unidentified, raised the planning to a new level of sophistication. They attempted to foil Newton authorities by designating dropoff points for illicit booty in Dedham and Wellesley, where they would not be detected. They also made two lists, one to give the police in the event of capture, and the real list, according to police.

The real list, released to the Globe yesterday by police, went beyond stealing road signs. It urged seniors to ''have a middle-schooler drink a beer,'' for example, and to produce a ''cab driver smoking pot.''

It included an entire category called ''Let's talk about sex baby,'' which listed 38 actions that would win participants points. Among them were ''roll around in Saran Wrap and honey naked,'' and form a naked human pyramid and engage in masturbation, oral sex, and intercourse with different combinations of participants.

Welch said he had been unable to identify students who planned the hunt. Participants, he said, were ''a huge cross-section of the class.''

''A whole bunch of kids sit around and try to think up the most outrageous things they can, and that's a very, very dangerous situation to be in,'' he said.

Panica said some of the hunt items were obviously jokes. But he said he talked to students who told him that stunts and sex acts were performed. ''Some of these things did happen,'' he said.

Police have seized a videotape of some of the alleged activities but have not yet viewed it, he said. Unless there are students younger than 16 or someone was coerced, the tape may not contain evidence of a crime, he said.

Welch said graduation ceremonies are expected to proceed without interruption June 13. Even if the school were able to identify ringleaders, Welch said, he would not bar them from commencement because that would be '' the nuclear weapon of discipline.'' Welch has cracked down on a different tradition at Newton South, the ''senior run,'' when seniors ran wild through the halls, punching out ceiling tiles, letting loose a box full of mice, and ripping posters off the walls. Welch canceled the senior banquet after the incident last year, and the result was no senior run this year.

Ellen Schwab, a co-president of the Newton South PTO, said her daughter, a junior, had heard of the hunt and was so embarrassed by what she knew of it that ''she wouldn't even tell me what she heard about it.''

The activities on the scavenger hunt list ''can be humiliating and degrading, and it's really unfortunate,'' said Schwab. ''It really tarnishes the reputation of the kids who get involved, and it tarnishes the reputation of the school.''

School Committee chairwoman Anne Larner said that she had not heard about the scavenger hunt from the administration, but that she expected school officials to take a tough line on the activities.

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