**Ryan Kipping, Stephen Lanza and Joe Rexwinkle**
_Students by Day, Zombie Slayers by Night_

MUPD keeps us safe from crime. MOVE’s copy editors keep us safe from typos. But who defends us from the twice-yearly zombie apocalypse?

Enter Joe Rexwinkle, Ryan Kipping and Stephen Lanza, Humans vs. Zombies’ president, vice president and treasurer, respectively.

Graduate student Rexwinkle, along with seniors Kipping and Lanza, is the ringleader of MU’s chapter of Humans vs. Zombies, a game played on college campuses throughout the country. Players begin as humans, with some set aside as “Original Zombies,” who try to tag humans and thus make them zombies.

“It’s like an over-glorified game of tag,” Kipping says.

But this is no ordinary playground tag: Gameplay involves NERF guns, socks, alliances and strategies.

“(It’s like) Assassin, but you can’t lose,” Rexwinkle says.

The three have each been involved since their first years at MU. Lanza, who’s studying mechanical engineering, tells of ambushes in the dorms, overzealous freshmen and battles to the (un)death.

“There’s no predetermined winner…. No one really loses,” says Kipping, the trio’s information technology major.

Rexwinkle, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering, encourages those interested to sign up online at [muzombies.org](http://muzombies.org/). This semester’s game runs from Nov. 6-11.

**Myriam Celestin**
_Barista at Main Squeeze_

For Myriam Celestin, vegetarianism is a way of life. And that’s probably why she decided to work at Main Squeeze downtown rather than at the Reynolds Alumni Center after moving here in June.

“I don’t want to be in a suit and tie,” Celestin says. “My job at Main Squeeze suits me better.”

Celestin says she isn’t one of those people that cares if other people eat meat. She just stays vegetarian because it makes her feel good. The actual act of eating meat used to make her stomach hurt and make her feel heavy.

“When I wake up, I know that I’m doing something, and I feel a lot healthier than most people,” Celestin says.

Celestin moved to Columbia to be near her boyfriend, but she also wants to work at a school in Columbia that helps children with special needs. She says she had a lot of experience in high school that qualifies her to work in that area, and she just needs to get certified.