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By Geoff Smith
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 25, 1996
You are never too old for Halloween.Ten years ago, you would have already planned the Halloween costume, the back-up costume for when your friends stole your ideas, the strategically mapped out trick-or-treat route (travel time between houses estimated to increase efficiency) and the perfec t trick to play on that house down the street that always gave out toothbrushes.
Times have changed. While you may still long to rampage the neighborhood to feed the sugar craze, few houses may welcome a 5-foot-6-inch person begging for candy at the door.
Halloween falls on a Thursday this year. So if an 8 a.m. Friday morning class has killed plans for the perfect raging Halloween party, consider an alternative activity.
Many campus organizations are holding spooky events, which help the community in the process.
- Omega Delta Phi fraternity and Kappa Delta Chi sorority are holding their fifth annual Halloween Haunted House Saturday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Holmes Tuttle Boys and Girls Club, 2585 E. 36th St.
Arturo Kiyama, Omega Delta Phi service chairman, said elementary-aged children from the Boys and Girls Club, Ochoa Elementary School and Carrillo Elementary School have been invited.
More than 600 children are expected to attend the carnival. There is no charge.
A carnival with prizes for the children will accompany the haunted house.
- The Yuma Residence Hall Government is putting on it's fourth annual Haunted Dungeon.
Wendy Cummings, haunted dungeon director, said this year's theme is "Tombs of the World."
"There is going to be lots of gore and twisted things," Cummings said. "But I don't think there is going to be any S &M this year."
Cummings rated the dungeon as "PG-13."
Admission to the dungeon is either $1 or two canned food items to be donated to a local food bank. Admission covers the cost of supplies to put on the dungeon.
Cummings said the hall does not usually make a profit.
This year, she said, Camp Wildcat is also bringing 40 children from disadvantaged neighborhoods through the dungeon.
The dungeon will be open Wednesday and Thursday from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Nov. 1 from 8 p.m. to midnight.
"There is no Jason, no Freddy Kreugar," Cummings said, "just lots of dead bodies."
- Spires Sophomore Honorary and Prelude Freshman Honorary are helping the University Medical Center put on a Halloween party for children who are current or recent patients.
Lindsay Galbut, Spires president, said 22 members will be dressing up in costume to take the children trick-or-treating at the various nursing stations of the hospital.
The party, for an expected 250 children, will be Thursday from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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