Students giggled and screamed together during Friday Frights, a horror movie screening held by the honors peer coaches in tribute to Friday the thirteenth.

“It’s Friday the thirteenth today. It’s a perfect day to get people to come out and watch a scary movie,” Tamara Bryant, junior peer coach, said.

The movie “Happy Death Day” was shown in the Wolfpack lounge of Farris Hall, where students were given coloring sheets to fill in during the flick.

Freshman Caitlyn Johnston said, “I’ve already seen it, so I knew that it would be good.”

Although Johnston enjoyed the film, other students had critiques after it was over.

Freshman Caroline Robison found the movie predictable, while freshman Noah Barrows found the humor to grow stale.

“They tried a little bit too much, but didn’t get enough out of it,” Barrows said.

Similarly to Johnston, Bryant picked the film because she had already seen it and knew she liked it.

“I’m not usually a fan of slashers,” Bryant said. “However, that movie, because of its comedy aspect, is enjoyable to me for some reason. And I usually don’t like corny comedy movies, but I thought that the main character was like, quirky and interesting.”

Barrows said this wasn’t the first time he’d watched a film in the Wolfpack lounge.

“We’ve already been doing movie nights down here occasionally, so this was just another that was easy to go to,” he said.

Animated flicks “The Lego Batman Movie” and “My Neighbor Totoro” have also been screened in the lounge.

For Johnston, this was yet another honors event to add to her list.

“I’ve been going to almost all of the events offered to make friends here on campus,” she said.

Other events that she has gone to include Master Debaters, Metaphors R Us and a non-alcoholic mixer.

Even though the honors peer coaches enjoy putting on events for students, their roles go beyond having fun.

“We’re around to promote the holistic wellness of the people, from freshmen all the way to seniors,” Bryant said.

The peer coaches act as the middleman for honors students, helping them find resources for anything they need.

“We did a lot of training the week before school started. I mean, we were in hours of diversity training, microaggression training, and how to handle tough situations. And then we will have more training later on to help develop our skills as peer coaches,” Bryant said. “We have to go through what to do if someone is sexually assaulted, what resources to direct them to, just all of the above. We’re who students go to to seek other resources. We’re not the actual therapist per se, but we’re the people who will walk them to the therapist, or tell them about it.”

Despite low attendance numbers for events, Bryant still finds being a peer coach to be gratifying.

“I just hope that it is a good experience for them, that they’re able to take their mind off of whatever is currently troubling them in their life at the time, whether it be school, studies, a test coming up or even something totally unrelated to school. I just hope that they can meet new people, socialize and just have a good time at the event,” she said.