[SOT]: I'm standing here on the Iowa City Pentacrest, where hundreds of students are creating a commotion by not doing anything at all.
[SOT]: The November second general election day is on it's way and with it comes surprisingly large groups of student voters. The reason? The 21 ordinance which, if passed, will forbid anyone under the age of 21 in the bars after ten.
[SOT]: While there are hundreds of Ginkgo trees all around Iowa City, this one of the only ten or so females.
[SOT]: The event has been planned for about a month on Facebook by one Nolan "KeepinItClassy" Petersen
[SOT]: I'm standing here on the Iowa City Pentacrest, where hundreds of students are creating a commotion by not doing anything at all.
[VO]: Iowa students set their phone alarms for 12:25 today when they planned to freeze in place on the pentacrest for two minutes. After those two minutes, another alarm went off, telling them to move again.
[SOT]: The event has been planned for about a month on Facebook by one Nolan "KeepinItClassy" Petersen.
[VO]: The page shows over eleven hundred people planned to attend. Although less showed up, the turnout was still quite large. Several schools also joined in the freeze, including ISU. Currently it doesn't appear Petersen has any new plans. On the most enjoyable frozen december afternoon, I'm Galen Hawthorne, DITV.
[SOT]: I'm standing right in front of a very familiar sight to many students on the U of I campus, the ginkgo tree right outside MacClean hall. While there are hundreds of Ginkgo trees all around Iowa City, this one of the only ten or so females. What does that have to do with anything? When the females drop their seeds like they're doing right now, the smell is horrible to say the least.
[SOT]: A lot of people say that they smell like a lot of different things. What would you suggest?
[SOT]: Oh god, um, Like a dead animal's corpse
[SOT]: Wow, that's some pretty good wording.
[VO]:It's fitting that she picked the description of dead meat. It's the ginkgo seed's one defense against predators. The smell drives them away until the ginkgo's male counterpart's pollen can arrive on the wind and fertilize them. I know I wouldn't eat something that smelled that bad.
[SOT]: They're terrible, they should be removed
[SOT]: Really? What would you like to see there? Maybe a sunglass shack, or a sitting stump?
[SOT]: A Maple tree.
[VO]: Will the university be getting a Maple tree come summer? Watch this space. Galen Hawthorne, Daily Iowan TV.
[SOT]: I was coming out of the old capitol mall with a friend, and right as we were emerging from the doors we see a zombie clearly standing maybe five feet from the doors, and he shouts "Oh God, get back inside!"
[VO]: Zombies? In Iowa City? It's more likely than you'd think.
[SOT]: I just whip it and smack him right in the chest
[VO]: It's called Humans Versus Zombies, and it's caught on like a virus at universities around the world-- including Iowa. The game starts with a single headband-wearing zombie, who tags armbanded humans, who then switch sides an hour later.
[SOT]: Humanity's where it's at.
[VO]: The humans only defense? Socks. A zombie hit by one can't play for 15 minutes.
[SOT]: My main strategy was carrying a duffel bag full of socks
[SOT]: I was of the philosophy that if I had to stun a zombie I was doing something wrong
[SOT]: How many socks would you say you had?
[SOT]: Probably around 20-ish?
[VO]: Despite a little paranoia, it seems the players of Iowa City's humans versus zombies enjoyed themselves.
[SOT]: It was a great time, even if I did get killed relatively quickly, and if you didn't play it this time, play it when it comes back around!
