Students banded together over the weeks leading up to spring break to overcome the zombie outbreak that overtook the campus.
The event was hosted by residence life and encouraged all students that lived in the dorms to participate for the event’s first official year.
“It’s humans versus zombies,” freshman business management major Tyler Stephens said. “Zombies tag humans, humans become zombies, and it’s just a cycle. It’s a game of tag, but it’s between the four dorms.”
Stephens was on the OC Hall team, which meant he was up against players from the other three dorms. He said that he thinks events like this are important to the Wesleyan community because they allow people to get to know other people on campus.
“I was hanging out with people I never really got to meet before,” Stephens said, “so it was pretty fun. I met new people, and I got to run around, so it was a nice little stress reliever.”
Anna Somodevilla is a freshman mass communication major that participated in the event as part of the Elizabeth Means Armstrong Hall team. She agreed with Stephens that meeting new people was the highlight of this event.
“I talked to people in my dorm that were on my team that I’ve never talked to before,” Somodevilla said, “and some of them are my suite-mates.”
She suggested that in the future, the event coordinates more time prior to the start for teammates to meet each other and strategize.
“Having an actual meetup before the game starts,” she said, “just so you know your team better, because I feel like everyone, when the game started, it wasn’t until halfway through until they were like, ‘oh, we know who you are.’”
Freshman theater major Meg Lewis was also on team Elizabeth, which wound up being the winning team at the end of the game.
“There’s one infected patient – patient zero, who’s the first zombie, and he goes around and throws socks at people, and all the humans are trying to avoid becoming zombies,” Lewis said. “Whichever dormitory has the most survivors at the end of the game wins.”
Lewis said the highlight for her was the fun of the game, and she hopes to participate again next year.
“Even if you’re not playing, everyone gets involved,” Lewis said, “Because you have people waiting to like, cover you and tell people, ‘oh, they’re not here.’ It’s just all good fun.”
Amanda Roach 