Smashing pumpkins
Rather than merely celebrating Halloween Friday and Saturday nights, University Union hopes to convince students to head to the Ruffner parking lot Sunday afternoon from noon to 4 p.m. for their Fall Fest/Halloween Carnival.
The event will feature the requisite costume contest, a pumpkin decorating contest, music and pumpkin smashing.
"The costume contest will be judged by DJ Euphoria and two members of the University Union," said Charles Osborne, second-year College student and U-Union Special Programs chair.
Prizes such as free short course classes, tickets to movies at the Newcomb Hall Theater and tickets to the Nov. 4 performance in Cabell Hall of "The Amazing Jonathan," an act Osborne describes as "a comedian with props," will be awarded to the winners.
Those who take a more progressive approach to art or who are in dire need of some stress relief can compete in the pumpkin-smashing contest. Two pumpkins will be hung from trees while blind-folded competitors will take bats to the gourds in an attempt to knock their pumpkin down first -- thereby proving their destructive prowess.
For students harboring more masochistic tendencies there will be a wax hands-making activity. Interested parties will dip their hands in hot wax to make sculptures of their digits which they can have dyed a variety of colors.
In addition to the vast array of activities, Halloween revelers also can listen to acoustic guitar player Alana Malick and the CD-spinning talents of DJ Euphoria as they eat caramel apples and drink soda.
"We expect that about 500 people will come out," Osborne said. "It should be a good time."
Compiled by Kate White
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