2018 Metro State University Medlllion Hunt

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Medallion Hunt Rules

Read your metrostate.edu email.

From April 2-27, News@Metro will publish several clues about the location of the medallion. The medallion will be hidden on Metropolitan State University property.

The hunt is open to all members of the Metropolitan State community.

• News@ Metro will publish clues as to the location of the medallion. The medallion will be hidden on Metropolitan State University property. We will post clues twice a week, so check frequently.
• The hunt is open to all members of the Metropolitan State community.
• The prize for finding the medallion and returning it to Kristine Hansen in the Metropolitan State University Foundation office will be a $50 gift card to Barnes & Noble.

WATCH YOUR EMAIL FOR NEW CLUES SENT FROM APRIL 2-27

Everyone who participated in the hunt by purchasing an “ I support the Annual Fund Drive” sticker will be invited to join us at an ice cream truck social from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 on the Saint Paul Campus and on Wednesday, May 2 at the MEC in Minneapolis. (Save your sticker.)

Stickers are available for a minimum $10 donation to the Annual Fund Drive. Stickers are available at Gateway and may be picked up in person or sent interoffice from the Foundation office. Donations are accepted through online giving, checks or by completing an Annual Fund payroll deduction form. Groups or hunting partners may not share a sticker.

If the medallion is not found, prizes will be distributed through a drawing of all entries. To enter without making a gift, please return an annual fund pledge form with the words “NO DONATION” written in the donation area of the form.

All returned pledge forms will be entered into a prize drawing.*

Other prizes include:
• “Table for four, please” — Lunch with university President Ginny Arthur for three faculty or staff members.
• “Get your Metro stuff” — One of several gift cards to the Metropolitan State University Bookstore. (donated)
• “Make it a Grande” — One of two $10 gift cards to Starbucks. (donated)

* No pledge is necessary to enter, simply return your form with “No PLEDGE” written on the form. Please include your name and contact information

The medallion has been found. Congratulations to Brian Higbee, operations coordinator for the Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship, for finding the Metro Medallion!

Brian Higbee, Medallion Hunter

Hunt Information

Dates

Scheduled Dates

Monday, April 2, 2018

Find Date

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Finders

Name

Brian Higbee

Prize

Maximum Prize

$50 Barnes and Noble Gift Card

Awarded Prize

$50 Barnes and Noble Gift Card

Location

General Location

The top of the parking ramp

Pinpointed Location

Under the stairs on the back side of the parking ramp

44.958102, -93.071711

Clues

Clue 1

Published Date

Sunday, April 1, 2018, 7:00 PM

Metropolitan State Medallion Hunt 2018: Clue #1

Morning breaks and the sun also rises;
The 2018 Medallion Search is just full of surprises!
The day is new and please enjoy the view;
The 2018 Medallion Search is here just for you!

The official meaning of the clue.

The medallion was hidden at the top of the parking structure, which offers a beautiful view of the Dayton’s Bluff Neighborhood.

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Clue 2

Published Date

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 7:00 PM

Time to hoe it down and scratch your gravel,
To this land I’m bound to travel.

The official meaning of the clue.

A bit of a reach here, but the line is from the song Dixie, and the medallion was hidden on campus, but in the direction of the Mississippi Market, and Mississippi is the “Heart of Dixie.”

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Clue 3

Published Date

Monday, April 9, 2018, 7:00 PM

The flavor says, “Butter.”
But, our Canadian friends say, “__________”

The official meaning of the clue.

This refers to an old Parkay margarine commercial, but people in Canada refer to parking structures as “parkades.”

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Clue 4

Published Date

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 7:00 PM

I was looking at a colleague. I think he’s very attractive.
He said, “Don’t look at me.”
I said, “I wasn’t looking at you.”
He said, “Stop looking at me.”
I said, “I’m not looking at you.”
He said, “Since when is a look not a look?”

The official meaning of the clue.

When is a look not a look? When it’s a stare. The medallion was hidden under stairs.

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Clue 5

Published Date

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 7:00 PM

The medallion’s not in Minneapolis.
The reason is simple. Security.

The official meaning of the clue.

At MCTC, with whom we are co-located in Minneapolis, the security desk is located in the parking structure.

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Clue 6

Published Date

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 7:00 PM

The difference between the U.S. and Europe is that, at some level, 1=2.

The official meaning of the clue.

This is a thing. In Europe, what Americans might call the second floor is often labelled Floor 1, while the ground floor is just the ground floor. The medallion was on the level of the parking structure above street level in the back, which would be the second floor in the U.S., but the first floor in Europe.

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Clue 7

Published Date

Sunday, April 22, 2018, 7:00 PM

I asked a professional photographer once what they key to photography is. With a clap, he said, “Lighting.”

The official meaning of the clue.

The top of the parking structure features both security cameras and lightning rods. Photography and a clap of lightning.

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Clue 8

Published Date

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 7:00 PM

The official meaning of the clue.

This is apparently guitar music for Stairway to Heaven. The medallion was hidden under the stairs that access the highest level of the parking structure, and from below the stairs seem to rise up to the sky.

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Clue 9

2=4 for sufficiently large values of 2.

The official meaning of the clue.

We never got to this one, but the level of the parking structure on which the medallion was hidden was the second level above the street in back, but is labeled level 4 in the structure itself.

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