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On a lighter note: ZOMBIES!

The University of Florida, like all schools and most other organizations, has Emergency Plans for all kinds of situations. Hurricane Evacuation, Pandemic, a shooting on campus, zombie attack. You know the usual.

Well, the zombie attack isn’t normal for Most organizations. Seems UF is the only semi-rational group with a Zombie Emergency Plan. And their plan even takes the possibility of the attack seriously. Well, mostly. The “Infected Coworker Dispatch Form,” while mostly appearing serious about an incident in which an employee of the school is forced to eliminate a zombified coworker has some not so serious bits. Like on the list of symptoms “Recently Dead but Moving Again.”

Some of the plan is even familiar to students. How to defend your dormroom against zombies reads much like the school’s Emergency Plan for Panty Raids, written after a historic panty raid that caught national attention in 1952 (mentioned on their “Historic Campus” website). However, the plan includes no sign that the school intends to cancel classes in the event of a zombie infestation.

Unfortunately, after the plan, written in June of this year, caught media attention (and also here), the school administration announced it was a joke and took it down.

COMMENTS

  • JadedByPolitics

    too much time on their hands. I think the person or person’s who wrote the Zombie plan should perhaps be given a letter saying their positions have been eliminated due to the fact that the University is no longer paying for IDLE CRAZY time!

    • spimnyborg

      almost all of us have _some_ amount of free time
      this might not have been done on anyone’s dime
      could have .. but we don’t know

      nevertheless, it’s good fun

      • Raven

        In one of them is a clip from TV news explaining how the whole thing came about.

        Professor is up at night with insomnia, watches some zombie flicks, is responsible for maintaining the emergency plans. Puts it together on his home computer and uploads it to the university system. Voila.

        • Raven
  • randy streu

    I did this on my show, and then printed the plan. Nine kinds of awesome.

    BTW, I don’t see that Jaded’s response to you is inconsistent with your explanation. guy with too much time on his hands. Still, fun results. :D

  • 6eorge Jetson

    and, believe me, they are dangerous.

  • redpens

    That’s the zombie media