As we sat inside a student’s tiny dorm room on the UMass campus in Amherst, he pulled out a large suitcase, zipped it open and proudly revealed an arsenal of guns and ammunition.

My producer Meredith and I couldn’t believe it!

Why in the world would he and his roommate waste so much valuable space with a bunch of plastic Nerf guns?

It’s all in the name of a game called Humans Versus Zombies, or HvZ for the cool people.

It’s apparently an addictive form of adult tag.

We heard stories of students wearing camouflage and hiding in the trees to avoid being “tagged” … a Zombie who hid under a pile of leaves in freezing weather at 2:30 in the morning just to nab a Human and even a story of a student jumping out of a second story window to “tag” another student. Some students have been known to hide out in their dorms and never leave until the game is over.

HvZ has been played at college campuses long before the Virginia Tech massacre and variations even before that.

But recently the game has come under scrutiny because of those brightly colored plastic Nerf guns.

Alfred University in western New York was placed under lockdown a few weeks ago after someone called police about a man on campus with a gun.

You guessed it … he was playing Humans vs Zombies, but he made the mistake of concealing his weapon so that only his hand on the pistol grip was visible.

The gun is a bright yellow with orange, black and silver accents. Fully revealed you wouldn’t mistake it for a real gun, but with only the grip showing… it’s apparently possible.

The student didn’t mean to cause any panic, but the administration has now put the game on hold and will likely ban the guns.

Back on the UMass Amherst campus, players still have their guns and so far the administration hasn’t felt the need to restrict them.

The UMass students we spoke to said they don’t want to give them up, but will if it means keeping the game alive.

After all, the humans would still have their balled up socks and marshmallows to ward off the Zombies.

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Which elected officials plan to help shape the first 100 days of the next administration?

The answer is our governors … or at least 18 of them so far.

That’s how many have signed on to the Governor’s Declaration on Climate Change. Their mission is to form a state and federal partnership which in turn will establish a national climate policy … something they say is missing at a critical time in our lives.

Four of those governors met at Yale University to exchange ideas and call for change. This as President George Bush announced his goal to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

Critics say that’s too little too late. Watch last night’s FOX Report below to hear what else they had to say.

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I’ve been to many state capitols throughout my years of reporting … sometimes to cover stories of pork barrel politics, but rarely do I see dressed-up pigs. (Of course there was also the goat in the back of the pickup truck and the dozens of tractors in front of the capitol building in Trenton, New Jersey.)

Hundreds of people, mostly farmers, their families and supporters gathered on the steps of Governor Jon Corzine’s office to demand the governor reverse his proposal to shut down the Department of Agriculture.

Governor Corzine told me he heard the protesters outside … but he didn’t go talk to them. Of course no politician in his right mind would step in front of a crowd who just drove in from across the state in vehicles that might get five miles to the gallon. And, I’m sure the protesters never expected to see him. But he heard their message loud and clear… farmers are concerned the cuts will mean they no longer have a voice in state government.

Governor Corzine promised not to turn his back on farmers, but said the bottom line is the state doesn’t have enough revenue to cover its spending… and so when it comes to making cuts, everything is on the table.

The farmers are quick to point out… they know exactly what it means to put things on the table … they put food there every day.

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