Students compete for pillow fight record
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Kevin Hawkins, left, and Andrew Bartlett joined more than 700 others in an attempt to break the record for the world's largest pillow fight.
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CORVALLIS, Oregon (AP) -- Knocking the stuffing out of each other may also set a record if Oregon State University students are recognized for what they hope was the largest pillow fight in history.
Unofficially, 766 people showed up at Oregon State on Friday to take part in the jumbo pillow fight in hopes of topping the Guinness Book of Records mark set by 645 people who staged a mass pillow brawl in Garnett, Kansas, last June.
"It's awesome to see part of OSU's community come down and do this," said Lige Armstrong, a 21-year-old liberal studies major from Hawaii who organized the event as part of a class project.
Armstrong and five classmates in Communications 322 -- a class also known as Small-Group Problem Solving -- got an assignment a couple of weeks ago to "do a project with no parameters."
They simply had to organize a group event, said their professor, Michael Beachley, who watched Friday's chaos in front of OSU's Memorial Union building.
The class divided into 10 groups to stage the fight, which had to last at least one minute for each participant. Past class projects have included bungee jumping, skydiving or something as simple as a dinner party.
Pillow fight sign-up sheets with the 766 names will have to be sent to Guinness, based in London, and it will take six to eight weeks to verify the record, Armstrong said.
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