Humans vs. Zombies: Should UW ban it? (KING)

Seattle TV station KING reports on the popular University of Washington on-campus game "Humans vs. Zombies," which is basically "tag" taken to a ridiculous level.

The game's proponents say it's nothing but harmless, role-playing fun, designed to break up the monotony -- and stress -- of daily college life. (And, according to a study out Wednesday that shows college freshmen experiencing "record-low levels of emotional health," they may have a point.)

Some UW professors aren't so sure it's harmless, though:

But UW Professor Beverly Winner-Coates claims she recently saw a student in the stairwell outside her office who didn't look like he was playing a game. "He was bent forward, dressed in fatigues, and looking out the window like he was looking, seeing who he could shoot, is the impression we all had," says Winner-Coates. Citing the recent tragedy in Tucson, UW Professor Mary Callahan wrote an email to the student activities office. "I don't like walking around campus amongst make-believe assassins sneaking around with toy guns, looking to take out targets," she wrote.

What do you think? Kids just being kids, or an insensitive and possibly even dangerous display of weaponry in this day and age?

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