Booooooooooks. Booooooooooks.
Moaning zombies led by members of the English Club roamed campus in search of brains and literature donations.
Students, professors and members of the community, with torn clothes and rotting flesh, attacked IU Southeast hoping to spread the literary infection.
“It’s Halloween, it’s October, it’s fun,” Karyl Anne Geary, English senior and vice president of the English Club, said.
The English Club sponsored the Walk for Braaaains Zombie Walk to collect children’s book donations for Our Lady of Peace Children’s Peace Center in Louisville.
Sarina Kenney, English senior and secretary of the English Club, said the walk was also intended to raise awareness about the English Club and attract other majors to consider joining.
“We don’t really have a presence on campus,” Kenney said. “People assume you have to be an English major to join.”
The zombie activity included stumbling through the halls of various buildings on campus, moaning “brains” at unsuspecting people attempting to avoid the walking dead. The zombies were found interrupting meetings and study sessions and assimilating students from the lodges.
“We had a good time,” Jessica Hinkebein, English junior and treasurer of the English Club, said. “Adding zombie to a social event makes it more fun.”
Hinkebein said everyone who attended enjoyed putting on makeup and being zombies for the night.
The main goal for the English Club was to replace many of the books that are given to children at Our Lady of Peace.
“It’s a wonderful organization,” Geary said. “They help kids from all over the area learn life skills.”
Geary works at a psychiatric hospital and said the children’s unit is lacking in literature for the children to read because many of the books are damaged.
Geary said she wanted to give the children the advantage reading gave to her as a child.
“Reading is a big solace,” Geary said. “Sometimes I think books are left out.”
The walk raised about four boxes filled with children’s books for the hospital.
“Yeah, it was about being a zombie, but I wanted to thank the people that donated books,” Hinkebein said. “That’s what we wanted to get out of this.”
By BRITTANY POWELL
Staff
bripowel@ius.edu
