Zombie'ing Out Reser

As the college football season progresses, the Oregon State Beavers have yet another home game next weekend. But next Saturday's game could possibly be a little more unique than the others. Oregon State students are attempting to "Zombie Out Reser" for their next home match up against UCLA.

Facebook invites have spread like wildfire to people all across campus. Students are trying to encourage others to dress up in Halloween costumes as the game falls on a Halloween afternoon on October 31st.

"The UCLA game is on Halloween so lets zombie out Reser, any costume can turn into a zombie costume with a little face paint and some fake blood." The facebook event states. So far, according to the event website, there are 855 confirmed guests. There are also a number of students in limbo with the number of undecided guests being at 1,218, and another 1,470 who have yet to reply.

The Zombie Out is quite similar to other student organized "Color Outs" from previous years. Two years ago in 2007, Oregon State students came together for a controversial and notorious "Black Out" game vs. Arizona. Facebook was the center piece of it all. A writer from the Barometer, however, a local school newspaper, claimed it was racist and created controversy that even led to protesters outside of Reser Stadium the following home game. Last year in 2008, once again a Facebook organized event, found the Stadium to be full of nothing but Beaver Orange in the nationally televised game. That game Oregon State pulled off a huge upset over then the #1 ranked team in the nation in USC. Clips from that game ran on Sports Center the rest of the college football season. The theme behind the Orange Out was: "Because there are no orange people" referring to the previous years controversial Black Out game.

Without the power of Facebook, students wouldn't be able to coordinate such large events like the Zombie Out that is being attempted next Saturday. Because of Facebook, the orange out was also a huge success and replayed all season long not only on ESPN but was also shown in youtube videos thousands of times to people across the nation.


Here are a few links that you might find interesting that closely relate the Zombie Out at Reser Stadium:
The Facebook Event- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176914661809
Oregon State Football Home Page- http://www.osubeavers.com/sports/m-footbl/orst-m-footbl-body.html

Although I am obviously a huge fan of Facebook and the color outs that students have organized via Facebook, I cant see myself dressing up for next Saturdays game vs UCLA. I unfortunately don't have a Halloween costume yet, and will probably just stick to normal game day attire for that day. I do, however, approve of the unity within the student section with these Facebook oriented events in attempts to show school spirit and have a little fun in the stands as well. Either way or not, do not be surprised to see people in the stands resembling close to a Zombie in next weekends Halloween game.

Go Beavers!