The Penn Stater Magazine

Zombies and Green People

March 28, 2009 at 9:37 pm Chas Brua Leave a comment

I’ve been in the office for awhile this evening (yes, my social life stinks) and had the chance to observe two interesting student activities.

One involved about 50 kids running around for the better part of an hour and a half, brandishing Nerf guns and yelling things like “Get down, I told you to get down!” and “You can’t go into buildings! He went into a building!” I’m assuming it was a game of Humans vs. Zombies. Looked like fun. I think the magazine has an article about this campus craze in the works for an upcoming issue.

Activity number two, I only heard, didn’t see.… A walkway from downtown to campus runs right under my office window, and I heard several students yelling, “Turn off your light! Turn off your light!” I thought they were just leftover Zombies until one of them said, “Earth Hour” and I saw that it was 8:29 p.m. So I guess they were talking to me. As I mentioned yesterday, Penn State was observing Earth Hour, a symbolic shutting off of lights in Old Main and some other buildings. (Not this one, though.) The event was scheduled for 8:30 local time around the world.

But sorry, I can’t work in the dark. If it’s any consolation to the students who were bothered by my light, the TV and most of the other energy-draining appliances in my apartment are always unplugged when I’m not using them. Like now.

Chas Brua, contributing editor

Entry filed under: Penn State students, University Park campus. Tags: campus fads, Earth Hour, Humans vs. Zombies, Nerf.