"Zombie Debt, a collective of undergraduate and graduate students, marched into Levering Food Court [at Johns Hopkins] yesterday to speak about student debt following a mini-lecture in the Gilman Atrium."
"The movement, known as "Lunch of the Living Debt," featured individuals with zombie-painted faces who carried signs that read, "They owe us," and other slogans. Several members spoke into a megaphone to Levering Food Court, while others handed out fliers and walked around with boom boxes playing songs like "Thriller" by Michael Jackson."
"Today the University treats our needs with hostility," Hoffman said. "We are met with brute force . . . We are taught to think critically, but not about debt." Much like other Occupy protests, parts of her speech were punctuated with yelled responses from other members of Zombie Debt."
"Zombie Debt also feels that the University does not admit enough low-income students, and that those that are admitted only go into more debt."
"The old-fashioned image of the industrious everyman working his way through school is nonsense," they said. "Even work-studies are displaced by unpaid internships – indentured labor, measured in academic credits and subsidized by personal credit."
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