USU students have a variety of Halloween activites to choose from
Ghosts and ghouls probably won’t be dominating the neighborhoods of Utah State University this year.
USU students who come out of the woodwork in costume for events like the Halloween HOWL tend to be more conservative in their activities on the actual night of Halloween.
Many students elect to stay home and study or spend time with family.
“I am going to take my niece and nephew trick-or-treating,” said Danelle Seese, a freshman studying marketing.
Seese said she didn’t have any big plans for the night, but might attend a party downtown at Club Skyline.
While Seese plans to go trick-or-treating with her family, J.D. Jones, a sophomore in engineering intends to scour Logan neighborhoods for candy.
“Five pounds of candy is my goal, anything else is unacceptable,” Jones said. “I’m short, and with a good mask, I could pass off as at least a middle schooler.”
While Jones is trick-or-treating around town, he might cross paths with Crystal Duce, an undeclared freshman.
“I’m going to stay home and hand out candy,” Duce said. “I might go party after that.”
The number of children trick-or-treating around Logan may be lower this year in comparison to years past.
Logan resident Nicole Larsen will not be sending her four children into neighborhoods in search of candy. Instead, they will attend a “trunk-or-treat” sponsored by a local church.
“That’s where you go to the church and everybody comes and has their trunks [of the car] all decorated. All the kids just go around the parking lot,” Larsen said. “Everyone just goes around to each trunk with candy and hands it out.”
Larsen said recent world events have impacted her decision to let her kids go trick-or-treating
unsupervised.
“It’s kind of scary to take your kids out when you don’t know who is out there,” she said. “There are strangers and scary people.”
Parents may also bring their children to a Halloween carnival being sponsored by the Chi Omega sorority Thursday night in the Fieldhouse from 4 to 6 p.m.
“It’s a collaboration of different organizations on campus,” said Kelly Williams, president of Chi Omega.
The carnival will feature many games such as cakewalks, ring tosses, fishing, eating contests and face painting, she said.
Admission to the event is one can of food per person, or $4 for a family.
“We will donate the food to the Utah Food Bank,” Williams said.
There is also plenty of action on campus for students to enjoy Halloween.
The USU Art Guild is sponsoring a Halloween auction and costume party Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 209 of the Chase Fine Arts Center.
For students interested in service, the Val R. Christensen Service Center will be trick-or-treating for books Wednesday night, said volunteer Patti Welch.
“We’ll be sending students and volunteers out into the community to gather children’s books or any kinds of books that they can get,” Welch said. “Then we’ll be distributing those throughout the community.”
Anyone interested in volunteering should meet at the service center at 5 p.m. Volunteers are encouraged to dress in Halloween
costumes.
“It’ll be a great chance to do some service and have the Halloween experience at the same time,” Welch said.
Students interested in having a humorous Halloween experience may choose to attend the Theatre Students Association’s production, “A Halloween Show … Another Night of Oddville, Again, Part two, the sequel.” The event will be held in the FAC, Room 224, on Thursday with shows at 7 and 10 p.m.
“It’s almost like a variety show, it’s just like a spoof on Halloween,” said Brooklyn Pulver, publicity officer for the association. “We’ll be doing a skit with Hannibal Lecter and Martha Stewart.”
The show will also feature a freak show, pumpkin ballet, parodies of scary movies and a thriller montage, Pulver said.
Admission for the production will be $2 with a costume and $3 without. Prizes will be given for the best costumes.
There are plenty of activities outside of trick-or-treating for university students to participate in.
There is a variety of activities sure to satisfy the desires of even the spookiest ghoul.
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