Campus life at Rochester Institute of Technology has never been so alive...well actually dead. The students are engaged in a campus wide game of modified tag called Zombie Tag that runs 24 hours a day nonstop.
USA Today picked up on the evolving game that's spreading like wildfire across the US.
The rules are fundamentally simple: Zombie tags human, human becomes a zombie. Unlike movie zombies, with shambling walks and undead makeup, zombies in the game just wear headbands to distinguish them from armband-wearing humans. And they are free to sprint.
Humans ward off zombies with Nerf guns or by hitting them with a balled-up sock — a defensive move that stuns the zombie, usually for 15 minutes. The goal is to still be a live human at the end.
There is even a website dedicated to the game as well as several YouTube clips that play like a late night edition of SportsCenter.
The idea of mixing small group activities related to just your interest group with whole campus events is great and collectively builds the culture on campus. Even if not everyone is participating as a human or zombie there is something about this "always on" type of engagement that builds excitement.
Cooool! I haven't heard about this. Hmm how to spread it to Hunter College?
Posted by: Tania | October 09, 2008 at 01:57 PM
This is friggin sweet! I just helped a club called the Zombie Defense Council get started at my school, and I think they will eat this up, rotted flesh and all! Thanks, and I'll let you know how it all unfolds.
Posted by: Brandon Devlin | March 05, 2009 at 12:23 PM
@Brian - that's great news. For sure keep us posted as you try it out. I'm curious to see how easy it is to get going.
Posted by: Tom Krieglstein | March 05, 2009 at 12:27 PM
We notice neither the blur that attends the eye movement nor the time it takes to get the eyes from one place to the other.
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