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Students practicing their scares for Safehouse!

Upcoming Fun Fall Events

Several festive and fun fall events are planned for students this coming week. The fun times begin on Saturday, October 24 with Safehouse BINGO. The event is put on by the Inter-Residence Hall Council and will be held in the Wadsworth Hall Annex from 6:30-8 p.m. There will be over $500 worth of candy up for grabs, yummy! Monday, October 26 there will be a free showing of the movie The Night of the Living Dead (1968) in Fisher 135. Tuesday, October 27 Wadsworth Hall Student Association will be sponsoring another free movie night. They will be showing Casper, Hocus Pocus, and Saw. Wednesday, October 28 McNair Hall Association is hosting a Pumpkin Carving event in the McNair Dining Hall at 9 p.m. Thursday, October 29 delicious and free Halloween treats may be found in the Wadsworth Dining Hall. There will be caramel apples, pumpkin seeds, doughnuts, apple cider, and more! Friday, October 30 the Douglass Houghton Hall Council kicks off the weekend with the Costume Dance held in the Douglass Houghton Hall all campus study lounge/ballroom. The event will begin at 9 p.m. and promises to be full of good times, so encourage your student to come on out and do the Monster Mash!

Members of the local community enjoying the Safehouse decorations in the Residence Halls.

Safehouse

Saturday, October 31, the day students have been anxiously awaiting all week, finally arrives. Not only is Saturday Halloween but it also the day of Safehouse. Safehouse has been a Michigan Tech campus tradition since 1988. Each year on the last Saturday of October students decorate the residence halls for public tours. The community is invited to bring their children to take tours of the residence halls that are all decorated for Halloween. Student tour guides lead the groups through the tour route. There are three different tour groups this year: Fun (0-7 years), Spooky (5-13 years) and Scary (10-15 years). The students decorate their hall based on the category they choose. The houses that choose to do the fun category do a lot of fun and silly decorations for the younger children. The houses that choose to do the Spooky or Scary category are out for screams and thrills. Their decorations get pretty elaborate and even include some very skilled acting by students as they try to get a shriek from the tour groups that pass through. The event is so widely participated in that the Inter-Residence Hall Council judges the decorations and offers awards to the top winning houses. Safehouse is a great event to participate in and I can’t think of a better way to get more into the Halloween Spirit.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions please feel free to email me. Please check back for next week’s article, I will be writing about Spring Course Registration.