Students ooze Halloween spirit

As Halloween night draws closer to its spooky unveiling, many GCSU students are gearing up for an abundance of haunted house visits, parties, frightening decorations and even hosting trick or treating for faculty and staff families.

One nursing cohort at GCSU is planning a Halloween party as a chance to get to know each other better.

“We’re all sort of getting to know each other so we thought it’d be fun to do something as a group that we all have in common,” Kathleen Lampley, a junior nursing major, said.

Lampley, who works at Medieval Times, still has not decided on her costume for Halloween, but did say she plans to take her nephew trick or treating.

Treats are also being given out at West Campus. Trick or treating is being hosted at buildings 500-600 at the Village. The hosting has been done in the past with much enthusiasm from the students and the community.

“We target them a lot as a way for residential students to get more contact with their advisors or professors, they kind of get with them on a more personal level,” Charles Frame, advisor of the Resident Student Association said of focusing on faculty and staff families as the trick or treaters.

Frame also said that the trick or treating at the residential buildings came from RSA, which means it is very much a student-driven project.

“They wanted to be able to provide that safe trick or treating environment for the children of the community,” Frame said.

From treats to tricks, Tyler Mabe, a junior exercise science major, visited a haunted house located in Gwinnett County this past weekend. The house was riddled with gory scenes and frighteningly real objects.

“The one I remember best was a guy that looked like a mad scientist with blood all over him and he had a Skilsaw sawing into a fake body … but the Skilsaw seemed real because pieces of the fake body were flying off of it,” Mabe said of the sinister scenes of the haunted house.

Mabe has different plans for the actual day of Halloween, which include dressing up and giving out candy where he works.

“It’s fun letting loose and hanging out and there are always lots of parties,” Mabe said.

Parkhurst is also planning a few tricks of their own, with their door decorating contest.

“It’s kind of become a tradition,” John Wright, complex director of Parkhurst said.

The contest has one slight change this year. Voting for doors will be done online, on the hall’s Facebook group, where residents will upload photos of their doors and other residents will vote for the door they like. Freshmen Nicole Damron and Jessica Johnson are two residents who have decorated their doors so far.

“We just like the idea of having it decorated instead of plain,” Damron said.

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