Spring Break
Zombies take over campus through game
BRIANA GERDEMAN
Issue date: 11/11/09 Section: News
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This week, more than 1,000 students are playing a University-wide game of tag called Humans vs. Zombies.
Players wear bandannas to identify themselves - humans wear the bandannas on their arms, zombies on their heads or necks.
The game began at sunrise on Monday and will end at sundown on Friday. Zombies can "bite" humans and turn them into zombies by tagging them with both arms. Humans can defend themselves with NERF guns, rolled-up socks or more creative defenses such as silly string and marshmallows, stunning the zombie so it can't attack for 15 minutes.
The game has been played at other colleges and universities across the country, starting with Goucher College in 2005.
Adrienne Schwartzman, a freshman environmental engineering major from Suwanee, decided to start a game of Humans vs. Zombies at the University after hearing about the game from a friend at Georgia College and State University.
"I thought, like, 'That's a really cool idea,' and I immediately got on Facebook and made a group, and I invited all of my friends from UGA … within two days, there were already like 500 people on the group," she said. "I think it hit 1,000 maybe after like four or five days, maybe even less than that, but it's 2,500 right now."
The group is now being used to report zombie sightings.
"People are posting up their zombie sightings all over campus," said Tyler Gagat, a co-organizer of the group and a freshman from Marietta. "And so there's, you know, 'Two zombies ambushing outside the [Miller Learning Center], one wearing blue bandanna, one wearing red bandanna. Beware!' And there's almost like 30 or 40 posts of that already this morning, so people are keeping everybody's backs covered, trying to let the resistance win, I guess."
