If you have seen a friendly hooded figure wielding two toy light sabers and wandering around campus on weekends, then you have spotted Harding’s “Urban Jedi.”<\/p>\n
The “Urban Jedi” is a Harding student who dresses up as a Jedi from the “Star Wars” saga and uses toy light sabers to pretend-fight with other students on campus.<\/p>\n
The Urban Jedi asked to remain anonymous for the story.<\/p>\n
Most weekends, the Jedi will post a tweet or Instagram from his account,@HU_UrbanJedi, letting his followers know he is going out to find people to fight. He said he approaches people on campus, hands them a light saber and battles them for a couple minutes before running off to find another opponent.<\/p>\n
The idea originated when the Jedi was a freshman. While bored one night, he put on a costume, ran around with the light sabers and allowed other students to join in. Later that night, he created the social media accounts and has been battling most weekends since.<\/p>\n
Junior Aaron West once participated in a battle with the Jedi. When he saw him near the Grad dorm parking lot, he yelled out to him and they began to fight.<\/p>\n
West said it was exhilarating.<\/p>\n
“I consider it an honor to have fought him,” West said.<\/p>\n
Senior Jacob Bommarito witnessed the fight between West and the Jedi. After seeing the tweet, they had been together with a group of friends on the lookout.<\/p>\n
Bommarito said he would recommend this activity to others.<\/p>\n
“Lots of people love Star Wars, and I believe it is completely all in good fun,” Bommarito said.<\/p>\n
Now a sophomore, the Jedi says he plans on continuing this act as possible until he graduates.He hopes to find someone else before he leaves to continue on as the Urban Jedi.<\/p>\n
The Jedi said his favorite part of the experience is how happy people are after the fight. He wants everyone to get enjoyment from it.<\/p>\n
“It’s fun. Yeah, we may be in college but we can still just go out and fight with light sabers and no one’s going to judge you,” said the Jedi.<\/p>\n
If you would like to fight the HU Urban Jedi, he said he accepts challenges via Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n
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