The Daily O’Collegian

Elizabeth Doxon went looking for an Easter egg. What she found was a brand new television.

Doxon, a natural resources ecology and management graduate student, was one of three students who found prize-winning Easter eggs Thursday.

The Student Union Activities Board sponsored a campus-wide Easter egg hunt, awarding prizes to three students who found the eggs hidden on campus.

Students were given three clues to the whereabouts of three eggs in Wednesday’s Daily O’Collegian and told to return them to the SUAB office at 030 Student Union.

Doxon found her egg in the Mary L. Williams Curriculum Materials Library, which was the answer to the clue “SHHHHHH! A child’s mind is an open book…remember, it’s Easter!”

“When it said “SHHHHHH,” I automatically thought ‘library,’” Doxon said. “Then I thought about how the clue said ‘children’s library’ and started to do some research. Once I found out there was a library in Willard, I got there early.”

Doxon won a Polaroid 15 inch LCD flat-screen television for her efforts.

“My TV had just gone out, actually, so it’s great I won this,” Doxon said.

Beth Oliver, a freshman elementary education major, solved clue No. 1 and received an iPod nano.

“When the clue said Boone Pickens Stadium, I started there,” Oliver said. “Then the clue said ‘I’ll show you the money’ and I thought of how Philip [Morrison] does those promotions during basketball games, so I went by his office.”

Patrick Reynolds, a sophomore architecture major, was the first to claim a prize winning egg. Reynolds’ egg answered the clue “Most stop at the stars…keep going! We let you know that ‘Life Happens…here.’” Reynolds found the egg in the Starlight Terrace of the Student Union.

His riddle-solving abilities landed him a seven inch Phillips LCD portable DVD player and the movies “Spider-Man” and “Super Troopers.”

“It was fun,” Reynolds said. “Figuring out the clue was the best part. I didn’t know we have a children’s library on campus, so it was cool to learn that as well.”

Sara Ebbert, the SUAB recreation committee chair, said this is something they hope to do next year.

“We’ve done the Easter egg hunt in the past, but it was usually part of the children’s egg hunt on library lawn,” Ebbert said.

The hunt began at 8 a.m. and end at 6 p.m., but the eggs were found before noon.

“Next year, we’ll change a thing or two to improve the contest and make it better for everyone,” Ebbert said.