{"id":16487,"date":"2021-10-28T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=16487"},"modified":"2021-11-04T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:00:41","slug":"students-tour-the-harding-tunnels-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2021\/10\/28\/students-tour-the-harding-tunnels-for-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Students tour the Harding tunnels for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by Shannon Keyser<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beneath the Pryor-England Science Building lies a network of tunnels, ordinarily inaccessible to students. Though this may sound like a rumor or superstition, students had the opportunity to see the tunnels themselves thanks to the Harding University chapter of the American Chemical Society (HUACS), which offered tours Oct. 21, 22 and 23. The club also took advantage of the tunnels\u2019 natural eeriness by giving the Oct. 22 and 23 tours a haunted theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tours were extremely successful, attracting almost 300 visitors on Saturday night and over 600 visitors across all three nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe breakout statement of this entire thing is that we only advertised one day,\u201d HUACS president senior Darby Mohon said. \u201cThe fact that we had that big of a turnout with just word-of-mouth, especially on Saturday night, was crazy impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the tunnels, tour guides escorted small groups of about four or five people along a set route. On Thursday, the non-haunted night, guides provided facts and theories about the tunnels along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThursday night, lights were on, and it was the tour guides giving a history of the tunnels,\u201d HUACS public relations officer freshman Ella Smith said. \u201cWe don\u2019t exactly know for sure what [the tunnels] are, we just know that they were built in the 1960s. There\u2019s a running theory that they were made to be a bomb shelter \u2026 but currently, the tunnels are just used for maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the haunted tours Friday and Saturday, costumed students were stationed throughout the tunnels, set to scare groups as they passed by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a good time, especially as a tour guide, as you got to watch people go through as they were being scared or jumped at,\u201d Smith said. \u201cSome people did scream, other people laughed, it was an interesting experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tours also helped form connections between the HUACS members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the highlight of the entire experience for me was getting to participate in this activity \u2026 and getting to know the people who are also helping with the event,\u201d club member sophomore Martina Gooden said. \u201cIt was nice to get to collaborate with some of the upperclassmen and some of the people in my year that I don\u2019t necessarily know super well \u2026 people that I wouldn\u2019t normally be around because we\u2019re all in different classes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proceeds from the event will help pay for HUACS\u2019s primary activity: performing science demonstrations at schools and sparking interest in students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe try to bring science to the community,\u201d Mohon said. \u201cI think a lot of people have a misconception that [chemistry] is very inaccessible to them at most ages and that you really can\u2019t \u2018touch\u2019 chemistry until you reach high school \u2026 but it\u2019s so accessible at any age. That\u2019s our whole point: to make science feel cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students interested in HUACS can join its Facebook page at \u201cHUACS Student Chapter\u201d or can attend its next meeting Nov. 11 in room 123 in the Pryor-England Science Building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beneath the Pryor-England Science Building lies a network of tunnels, ordinarily inaccessible to students. Though this may sound like a rumor or superstition, students had the opportunity to see the tunnels themselves thanks to the Harding University chapter of the American Chemical Society (HUACS), which offered tours Oct. 21, 22 and 23. The club also took advantage of the tunnels\u2019 natural eeriness by giving the Oct. 22 and 23 tours a haunted theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16488,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16487\/revisions\/16488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}