Not on the List: Betrayal

Leila Sales chose to attend UChicago because of Scav and she was an enthusiastic participant and judge. Years into her writing career, she revisited a longstanding idea to write a book about Scav and began collecting Scavvies’ stories and photographs. The book was such a niche topic that it was a hard sell, but in 2019, UChicago Press published We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago's Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt.

The book had a wonderful reception, with events on campus and at the Seminary Co-op, where Leila reminisced with her former professors and many book contributors. Sadly, the book did not inspire a Scav item that year, which Leila confesses, “felt like a betrayal.” The editors of The Valois Boys Herald agreed and wrote an editorial. [3.15 Et tu, Brute? points]