Bookstore, Tablerock plan Halloween activities

Since the spirit of Halloween is right around the corner, various departments and organizations on campus are showing their ghostly spirits for the first holiday of the 2000-01 school year.

The bookstore will be hosting a “haunted story hour” for children from 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28. The story hour will take place in the newly decorated kids’ korner of the bookstore, said Jan Johns, general book buyer for the BSU Bookstore.

Afterward, there will be a costume contest and games for the children and “a dark maze leading to ‘glow bowling’ in the recreation center,” said Samantha Wall, Director of SPB.

On Monday, Oct. 30, children of students, faculty, and staff ages 1-12 can visit a haunted house in Chaffee Hall from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. The children are also welcome to go to Towers Hall for a night of trick-or-treating, starting at 6:30 p.m. and ending at 8:30 p.m.

On Halloween Day, “students may visit the ghoulish creations of the Roadkill Cafe’ (Tablerock Cafe’),” said Robert Herr, Residential Dining Director of Fine host. They will be serving “on the main-line, Transylvanian Oysters, Brain Souffle, Franky Fingers, Bat Wings, Fried Maggots, and Cheesed Cat Brains. Notions will feature Halloween cookies and Pumpkin Pie,” he added. We want to “create excitement for students and faculty for this Halloween season,”said Herr.

Fine Host will also host “The Great Pumpkin Carving Contest in Tablerock from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31,” said Michelle Gearrey, Marketing Coordinator for Fine Host.

Katie Moore

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