ORONO – University of Maine students and staff are going to be thrilled if they’re able to help break an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records with a little help from Michael Jackson and a flashback to 1983.

Just before Christmas that year MTV began running the music video for Jackson’s hit “Thriller.” The song and dance became a hit and have been around ever since.

At 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at the UM Student Recreation and Fitness Center, students will participate in Thrill the World, an international event that tries each year to break the record for largest simultaneous dance by having people worldwide dance to “Thriller.”

The simultaneous dance record is believed to have been set in 2002 when 197,569 elementary school students danced the Hokey-Pokey in 681 locations across Canada, according to the Thrill the World Web site.