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4 <S5> Wednesday,Oct.31,2012 P R IN T : ZQMBIES P R IN T : ZOMBIES No, there is nothing wrong with your death perception; zombies did indeed invade SE Portland oh Saturday. A s the intermittent rain beat down on hordes o f undead walkers, they gathered into one big group in anticipa- tiott o f th è 2012 Portland Zombie Walk. The Portland Zombie Walk is a family friendly event and is open to any and all who want to show o ff their costumes, makeup ‘ and acting skills in order to jo in the legion , m a asse £ o f sham bjipg, r o t t i i ^ a n d h u n inOTy a y .m s s e ^ s, , .eyerytyegf.Me’ tyeiKber lot wet, weti b»f m&y have been a little grey and a a lot but there were m any hundreds if not thousands o f people who braved this cold, wet day to share all things zombie. ‘They’re very cool,” quipped his daugh The Portland Zombie Walk began in 2005 ter M organa Cartwright as she watched the as a flash mob, w here people would dress up costumed crow d pass by. as zombies and perform the famous M ichael “The Storm Trooper is very cool,” added Jackson “T hriller” dance at P ortland’s Jim Cartwright’s nephew Jacob Cline in ref Pioneer Courthouse Square. From there the erence to one o f the m ore creative costumes. event evolved into a true community event Last y ear’s Zombie Walk was a little w ith "large masses o f people gathering at different from years previous; the event a pre-designated place and ending at the was m ore organized and was headed up by Pioneer Courthouse Square w here some of- M iranda M olea who took up the reigns from - the zombies would then o f course, do the th ë previous Organizer in 2009. “Thriller” dance. “The subject o f m oving the event to a dif Jim Cartwright w as there with his daugh ferent m onth came up . I comm ented on the ter M organa Cartwright and nephew Jacob thread. I mentioned that it is a Halloween Cline in order to participate along w ith other time tradition and should remain in the * die »«>■ » hard . * zombie « « lovers. «ywia. „m onth pfO ctober*” said M olea about h e r .“f f s coo ^to ^eg^ie other. m £o m b fe'!W alk h “I. also 'ft® Cartwright, Z oftib ie'W alk 'p articip an t tftefttfonM ail it would take is getting a per- and die hard zombie enthusiast.* ‘I love m it and talking w ith the city*’ zom bies.” This is indeed w hat M olea and her part- ner Hans Knecht did. Taking over the event, they created a non-profit called Mirandom Knechtions in order pay for the necessary perm its and insurance to make this event an official part o f the Portland scene. Just as im portant was to m ake sure that the, walkers are safe while having fun . at the same time. . ; “Having perm its m eans m ore peo ple feel safe and are more likely to attend our event,” said Molea. This year’s Zombie Walk started with all o f tlje umjead meeting up at SE M ain and fire truck, a V o 6 d o o D o u g n h u tsrfu ck "^ h d Tamale Boy. Zombies, slow walkers and fast walkers got together to mingle a bit before they headed o ff to OMSI for the “Thrill the World” dance. This dance is choreographed to M ichaël Jackson's “T hriller” and was headed up by a M ichael Jackson im personator whose moves im pressed m any in the crowd. A fter the “Thriller” dance ’ was ovèr; the undead sloughed down the sidewalk slowly, groaning and inoaning for brains as they were set upon by “survivors.” These self described survivors are the lucky or skilled few indi viduals who survived the zombie holocaust /h o b ; : Werè foironfeé oe im fntm e’t o th e vîrüà that created the zombies in the first place; some o f them were skilled enough to Kelli Luke The Clackamas Print A s the M ayan calendar com es to an end, Clackamas C om m unity C ollege students are rushing to prepare for the inevitable zom bie apoca lypse o f 2013. So here at The Clackamas Print, w e decided to ask a very im portant ques tion: W here would be the safest place at CCC to hide during this zombie apocalypse? We asked a random sampling o f 30 students their opinions and the results were scattered. “Definitely the w eight room ZOMBIES: terrorize college Continued from Page 1 . “There are concrete walls and no w indow s,” said Tinker, “and if all else tails and they do get in, I’m sûre y ou can find a costume to fit in with them .” O verall, 23 percent o f stti- dents chose R andall, for reasons such as the weight room and the gym. N iem eyer and M cLoughlin tied w ith 14 percent, followed by R oger Rook with 13 percent and the Comm unity Center and the “Other”.--Category, both with 10 percent. A ll -of the other building included only received One v o te . and anything not included had ho votes. B ut remember, it’s not too late to prepare for thé end. Good lUck to all o f those w ho survive this December! Sensing that there w ould be m ore students in B arlow H all Ju st by the hum an sm ell that seem ed to be com ing m ainly from that building, w e m ade our w ay inside. - We w ere right A s soon as w e got in the building, w e saw C opy E ditor Steven W eldon, hiding out, behind a chair, and little did he know that w ithin seconds, h e’d b e running for his life. Skriver w as the first to ru n after W eldon, but ju s t m om ents later, D uckw orth had , outrun Skriver and pounced. W eldon’s last effort was to yell and alert the others w ho w ere w aiting ju s t around the corner. A rts & C ulture w riter B reanna C raine m ust have heard the y ell because her frightened scream gave us zom bies a very clear idea o f whejre they all were. D illen quickly dem anded his group o f still living staff to run tow ards the cafeteria. They all follow ed the order and ran as fast as-th ey can, but Steele had cornered a poor C hris Taylor, the Print’s A&C editor, so that he could not run any further. “F arw ell, d ear w o rld ,” scream ed . T aylor in a final goodbye before he turned to face his doom. O ur zom bie group; th en chased after the breathers and cornered, them , into the cafete ria back room w here they had now here else to turn. O nly four staff* m em bers w ere left: D illen, C raine, Luke F rank and C aylee M iller. N obody knew w here the rest o f The Clackam as P rin t staff had gone o ff to, or i f they w ere even alive and well. The four rem aining backed into a corner w here all they ‘ could see w as us com ing straight tow ard them . A s if they w ere ju s t about to lose their lives they scream, but w ithin in an instance came a sudden break in the ceiling and the w hole ro o f toppled dow n on top o f us, leaving our dinner to get away. The P rin t staff w as free to go! They ran out o f the rubble and tow ards the entrance o f the college in hope to find help o r at least figure that their best bet is to reach a safe place and w ait for the apoca lypse to com e to an end, if it ever will. W hile we are still digging ourselves out o f the rubble, hope goes out to some, o f those w ho haven’t been found yet: Jam es D uncan, A nna A xelson, B rittany Bell, Kelli Luke, D avid Beasley, H eather M ills, Chris M orrow, Lucas W atson, Taylor O ster and K im berly Irving. We are still looking; they are bound to be tasty. Luke Frank The Clackamas Print Centuries of rivalry finally put to rest; ‘howling’ good time to ensue Hannah Duckworth The Clackamas Print From bites and scratches to trick ery and wars, fee long-standing rival ry between fee Tualatin Werewolves and fee Beaverton Zombies has had a tumultuous history. But this century’s generation o f monsters is deciding to flip a coin for sides, o f fee . field, rather than shake hands before a battle In an effort to combine friend ship wife some good old-fashioned rivalry, fee leaders are finishing up preparations for their first annual capture-fee-flag game. The head o f fee Zombies’ For Love Association, Elijah Braineater, says feat fee idea for fee capture-the-flag game came about when he and fee head o f fee Werewolves’ For Peace Community, Sean Furface, decided that two centuries of killing each other was enough. “It was just getting ridiculous,” said Braineater. “The majority o f the communities in the last two or three generations haven’t even known why we were rivals in fee first place. And as fee great-great-great-great- grandsons o f fee monsters feat Start ed it in fee first place, we figured our kin would listen to us.” Part o f fee preparation for fee game in both communities has been to make sure that this generation knows why they’re fighting, wife a history class put in place as part o f fee training requirements. '* be in the right place, at the right time. Some around him just after he hopped on the bus w ould be, the death o f us all. We could have o f the survivors even banded together and narrowly evading a slow and horrible death. survived the outside w orld in this m etal tube created zombie pro o f vehicles allowing them “I like getting all this ghetto gladiator gear on wheels, but if one o f us was bit, it w as over for us all. to ro am from tow n to tow n fairly safely. This together.” The screaming at the back o f the bus was A nother survivor told o f her narrow is w here I found myself. getting louder and the gunshots were deaf A t first, the w alking dead ignored the escape when death w as so close. “AIL that matters is that I’m still alive ening in this small space. I know now that I survivors, but after m any o f the undead were killed, the w alkers ‘ started focusing their and can kill as m any o f the bastards I can,” I only have a few seconds left to live. I love attention on the people killing them. In a sur said the girl I tagged as “A ngel” since she you Emi, Tristan and Jess; m ay God have m ercy o n us all. real and frightening display o f intelligence claimed her name no longer mattered. I pressed her on how she escaped when the walking undead m asses surrounded our Note: This article was found scrawled zombie proof buses, killing o ff some o f the she should surely be dead. “It was so close, I w as surrounded when within a blood spattered notebook found by : survivors before they could put up m uch o f suddenly they [the undead] all turned around survivors three days after it was assumed to a defense. A s the bus escaped the mayhem, the zom as one and left me there, I don’t know what have been written during the 2012 Portland Zombie Walk event that .jvill -jgo down in bies screamed in such a way as it seemed as happened,” said Angel. coy Id. Inquire further, Ahgel ■ ' h i s ^ ' a s J h t - ^ i ^ j c i f ^ j ^ V though they w ere Promising rey en g efo r the * P arted frothing a tth e rnoutirafta flung her . remaining Print sta ff sends our condolences - c se c o n d d e a tb so f tn^irfeilow uhciead. “I like being a sufvivor,” Said M ax arms wildly around in a tortured display. ' to the reporter ’s fam ily and loved ones. Lovely regarding the m ayhem going on Everyone on the bus knew w hat the end Surviving on campus in R andall,” said student Niko Hughes. “You would have a bunch o f w eapons.” • K atherine Suydam , however, disagreed. “Places to avoid: Randall hall, Comm unity Center, R oger Rook. If zom bies frequent places that they did when they were alive, these w ould be fraught w ith flesh eating undead persons.” In the end, Suydam decided on the Astronomy Tower, which is included in the “Other” category. C ynthia Tinker and D estini White chose M cLoughlin, how ever, for different reasons. White decided to go w ith the, bookstore, while Tinker chose th e costume Vault? * 5 ARE C O M IN C r BEWARE; THE Luke Frank Associate Arts & Culture Wednesday,0ct31,2012 “The rivalry wasn’t even feat big o f a deal when it first got started,” says Liv Longfang, fee head o f fee Werewolf Games Committee, “ft was just a couple o f kid monsters who had a beef wife each other. But they both had so much pride, that it quickly turned into something no one could control.” It all started'wife a girl, a young and innocent human who lived in fee small town that fee monster com munities surrounded. The monsters feat started it all, Ian Braineater and Christopher Furface both wanted to infect fee girl into their own kind They realized they were both on her trail when they accidently bumped into'each other as they were both following her home. They start ed fist-fighting, and though they ran away when fee battle was over, fee war had just begun. As fee heads o f their respective communities, Elijah and Sean pre sented this idea o f inter-community peace on May 5, 2010. It’s been a long two and a half years, but fee idea that these two monsters birthed in a bar is finally becoming a reality. ‘I t’s just so awesome to get to see this come this far, ya know,” said Furface. “When we first started talk ing to individuals and communities, we knew it was going to be hard, but I think our dedication and passion went a long way to win everyone over.” The game o f capture-fee-flag is to be held on fee Clackamas Community College campus, fee date is still yet to be finalized The campus is a neutral territory, so nei ther group will have a home-field advantage. The grounds are large, they include fields, wooded areas, and buildings; perfect for diverse cover to attack and defend. There’s no need to worry though, this is still about a good old-fash ioned game. While it is intended that it will be a slightly rougher version o f this classic schoolyard game, it’s still a game, and there is no intention of anyone getting seriously injured.
