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
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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
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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
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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. .
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“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
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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
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. “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.
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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 ^
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“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
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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.