Tonight, students looking to use the Regenstein’s stacks for, well, finding books, will have met with something of a revelation: Pac-Man in the library. Yet, instead of the familiar, two-dimensional video game interface, scavvies dressed as various personages from the classic arcade game ran through a maze of dusty grammars picking up pac-dots along the way.
I can only assume that there was some in-fighting amongst teams as to who got to participate; to many here at the University of Chicago, it must have been something of a dream come true: a video game made real… or at least sort of social.
Upon entering the stacks on the third floor, I soon noticed that something was off when a girl dressed all in red jogged casually by. I made a right and headed for my aisle, determined not to care or inquire–I have learned at least this much in my four years. Then, from ahead of me, a man with two home-fashioned googly eyes hanging from his breasts told me to “watch out”.