Thursday, March 20, 2014

Fatal Friday for Zombies?


The hours between 9 and 11 p.m. on Wednesdays are typically quiet ones for Griffin Hall on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus.

Evening classes have been dismissed, professors work alone in their offices and janitorial staff clean the liberal arts building’s many classrooms, halls and staircases.

But this Wednesday was a rare one for Griffin.

Late into the night, dozens of students and a lone professor raced through the halls, releasing nervous shouts as they shot toy foam dart guns to protect themselves from student zombies hidden in dark classrooms, inside forgotten pieces of hallway furniture and around any of the building’s corners.

“My favorite part is just being human and the paranoia,” said freshman student Rachel Austin. “It’s just the anticipation of ‘Am I going to get hit? Is there somebody behind me?’ It’s just amazing.”

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