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The Battalion
Wednesday, October 31,1 990
/ HAPPY^HALCIWEEN
Off Campus Aggies to host
Aggieland Spooktacular
By ELIZABETH TISCH
Of The Battalion Staff
HELP!
Rudder Theatre Complex
Needs student workers
For stagehand and spotlight work
To Apply Come To: 107 Rudder
or Call 845-8903 between 8:00am & 5:00pm
COME SIGN UP!!
This year come
A
HALLOWEEN
mnsim
Wednesday, October 31
COSTUME CONTEST
Winner announced at Midnight
Prizes of cash
and other TVeats for
V 1st. 2nd and 3rd place.
M
COLLEGE STATION HILTON
AND conference center
-V. lEs. ’i&jr,
801 University Drive East • 693-7500
COME MEET
THE
MSC
Political
Forum .
CANDIDATES
Thursday, November 1, 1990^
10:00 AM to 3:30 PM
MSC Main Hallway
Candidates will speak from
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Every 15 Minutes in the
MSC Flagroom
Local candidate elections will affect you!!
All are welcome!!
The views and opinions presented in the program
do not represent the views and opinions of the
MSC or the MSC Political Forum.
All Dressed Up!
photo by Hussel) James
The Bridal Boutique
and
Cologero’s Formal Wear
2501 S. Texas Ave. (next to Winn Dixie)
College Station 693-0709
If you’re looking for a “spookta
cular time” with ghosts, monsters
and creepy people, Texas A&M Off-
Campus Aggies has the event for
you.
OCA is sponsoring its annual
haunted house tonight on the sec
ond floor of the MSC. The event,
called Aggieland Spooktacular, will
begin at 6 p.m. and won’t “rest in
peace” until midnight.
een for those on campus and in the
Bryan-College Station community.”
Along with the haunted house,
OCA will provide a carnival with
games run by student organizations.
Door prizes donated by various
businesses in the area will be given
away every hour.
Forty-eight sponsors donated gifts
such as a free dinner for two at Rita’s
Restaurant, a lunch from Red
Lobster, plants from local florists, a
set of sculptured nails and car wash
specials at Wolf Creek Car Wash.
“We want people to have a safe
Halloween,” Karen Dudek, OCA
Haunted House chairwoman, said.
“We want to provide an evening
Filled with chills and thrills as well as
a lot of fun and excitement, and
make it a safe and eventful Hallow-
During the evening, there also will
be clips from scary movies showing
for those waiting in line to enter the
20-room haunted house.
The haunted house, designed by
the students, will attempt to scare
Aggieland with its electric chair
room, a spooky swamp, a funeral
Devil Night
Halloween
sparks arson
DETROIT (AP) — Police and
firefighters were on alert Tuesday, a
curfew was in place and patrols by
residents toting fire extinguishers
were organized for Tuesday’s Devil’s
Night, Detroit’s annual pre-Hallow
een arson rampage.
“I’m afraid,” Mildred Koyton, 67,
said. “It’s like you’re a prisoner in
your own house. I wouldn’t go out.”
Koyton said that every Devil’s
Night she paces from her front door
to the back, ready to protect her two-
story home next to an empty lot
where a house burned two years ago.
“All you can do is hope for the
best,” Koyton said. “But sometimes
faith can be weakened when you see
so much going on.”
Police arrested 154 youths Mon
day night for violating the 6 p.m. to
6 a.m. curfew, compared with 160
arrested during the first night of the
curfew last year, said police spokes
man John Leavens. The curfew is
for people under age 19.
In one effort to keep would-be
firebugs at home, the Southeast
Michigan Cable Association this year
decided to unscramble TV signals to
non-subscribers. That made avail
able Tuesday night’s cable offerings
“In Country” with Bruce Willis,
“Gung Ho” with Michael Keaton,
and “The Muppets Take Manhat
tan.”
To reduce the number of targets,
the city knocked down about 5,000
abandoned homes during the fiscal
year from July 1, 1989, to June 30,
according to the latest city records
available.
Mayor Coleman A. Young last
week unveiled a “My Heart Is with
Detroit” campaign that urged resi
dents to take pride in the city and in
crease the number of anti-arson pa
trols.
He said more than 35,000 resi
dents and city workers volunteered,
many wielding fire extinguishers as
they walked their streets and alleys.
“The people are tired,” said Toni
Mcllwain, coordinator of three De
troit neighborhood associations of
4,100 homes near City Airport that
united for Devil’s Night patrols.
“They’re the ones that are out there
making sure it doesn’t happen again,
and that’s going to be the difference
this year.”
Day of the Dead
Mexico fights to retain
identity with annual rite
oungs
northern border prefer trick-or-treating for candy
to visiting gravesites
[ ireter trick-or-treating t
eton-shaped bread, which has officials in nationalistic
Mexico spooked.
Recently the local Department of Education office issued a decree
urging citizens to commemorate the national Dia de los Muertos, or Day
of the Dead, holiday and defend themselves against the annual Yankee
Halloween cultural invasion.
T he Day of the Dead celebrated Nov. 2 is a mingling of ancient, na
live and Catholic traditions. On the holiday, Mexicans visit gravesites
where they replace old flowers and polish headstones.
In some parts of Mexico, parties are held at the gravesites and food
is prepared to symbolically welcome relatives and loved ones from the
grave.
Several schools, city hall and many residents in Juarez have an
swered the decree. Colorful altars that are part of the holiday tradition
will be on display.
“We want to make sureotlr youngsters are fully aware and under
stand OUr traditions befbreTh'ey don rheii Superman or Batman cos
tumes,” Federico Martinez Le-
chuga of the Department of Edu- x
cation in Juarez said. “After all we \ (j
are separated by a river and it’s
very easy to he influenced by the
United States.
But following the decree is dif
ficult in this border town where
America and its traditions are
only as far away as a drive or
stroll across a bridge.
Part of the tradition of Day of
the Dead is to pass around bread
in the shapes of skulls and skele
tons.
“Big deal,” said Ana Nunez,
who plans to dress as Cinderella
and make a trek to El Paso to trick
or treat. “On the Day of the Dead
all we get is bread. I want my
M&M candies.”
Some children from across the Rio Grande illegally cross the river
rhoods.
on Halloween and trick-or-treat in El Paso neighbor!
In some Juarez neighborhoods, passing out candy on Oct. 31 has
become tradition.
“The tradition of Halloween is another manifestation of the strong
U.S. culture influence in Mexico,” said Fernando Garcia, a University
of Texas-El Paso professor who teaches Latin American and Mexican
literature. “It’s something you cannot stop with even decrees or laws.”
In fact, the Day of the Dead is “artificially” celebrated by many
northern Mexicans, Garcia said. The holiday is celebrated in grander
style in southern and central Mexico.
Esther Vargas plans to take her two daughters to El Paso Wednes
day night for trick-or-treating.
“Instead of being negative about Halloween, I try to take advantage
of being on the border by exposing my children to the two cultures,”
she said.
graveyard, a Vietnam war room and
scenes from the movie “Exorcist.”
Dr. John Koldus, vice president of
Student Services; Carl Bailey, owner
of Beetles Barbeque; Aggie 96’s ra
dio personality Josh Hallsted; Col
lege Station Fire Marshal Harry Da
vis; and Mascot Corporal John
Draeger will judge the best and most
original costumes for children and
adults.
The childrens’ costume contest
will begin at 7 p.m. Winners will re
ceive a candy basket from Yummies
and a balloon bouquet from Pop-a
bilities.
Costume winners in the adult divi
sion will win a free weekend in the
Victorian Condohotel in Galveston.
Runners-up will receive $50 gift cer
tificates from Mission Jewelers.
Cost is $3 for adults and $2 for
those in high school and younger.
Kappa Alpha
raises mom],
MDA benefits
Texas A&M’s Kappa Alplj
fraternity expects to raise moit
than $5,000 for the Musculj
Dystrophy Association durirp
fourth annual Haunted Housej
Manor East Mali running
through today.
Patrick Watkins, a Kappa Al.
pha pledge, says the 10-roo®
haunted house opened Mondat
and the fraternity raised $800®
one night.
Although the haunted house
will mainly benefit MDA, thejf
Rector Scholarship Fund also4
receive a portion of the revenue
Construction on the projei
started about a month avo, l
says.
The first haunted house wasai
the Kappa Alpha house, bui had
to be relocated because of its pop
ularity, he says.
This is its first year at the
Manor East Mall, and Watkins
says the fraternity is pleased wft
the location.
" There is lots of parking.” I
says. “It’s convenient and sate."
Admission is $4 for adults aid
$3 for children younger than 12
Tubul
Lawyer uses
fake graves,
real names
AUS TIN (AP) — WithHalloww
here, there’s a witch on theroofanJ
a skeleton in the grass. But ik
tombstones on Austin lawyer k
Biggart’s yard are what’s cauai
“R. IP. pies” among environmenti'
ists.
Biggai t has put hauntingly rd
last names on his grave markers-
names that call to mind foes
former Texas Water Commi»
chairman, who now represents
velopei s and waste disposal firms»
the state agency. Could "Bunch'lt
Austin attorney Bill Bund, w
worked foi Earth First! and the San
Barton CreeK Association has beet
thorn in the side of Biggaridiei
F i ee port - Me MoRan?
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environmental writer Harold Scai
lett, who reported that
would earn $340,000 by v
Water Commission permit forah
Porte hazardous waste incinerator
Could “B. Ryan" be Austinatto
nev Brent Ryan, who representettpei
the c ity of La Porte, whichoi
Biggart’s client in that permit battle
Biggai t won’t say.
He does admit that he and
wife, Dianne, every year ‘'come
with a list of enemies of the fat#
we’d like to bury.”
But, Biggart says, the list aid
names on the headstones don't net'
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and Wally Bunch from New En
gland,” Biggart said. "You have
put names on gravestones to ma
them look authentic. Sowejustpid
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the family. 1 can’t tell you which,"
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them about friends and enemies,
said Biggart, who has three children
ages 6, 12 and 15.
“A person who doesn’t haveeiie
tnies, his friends ought to
about him.”
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graveyard isn’t meant tobetakenW
seriously.
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to enjoy ghoulishness."
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12th Man Squad Members and Their Wives Endorse
Mary Ann Ward
For Brazos County Clerk
Garry and Sandra Sorrell, David and Pegi Fry, and Brian and Stacy
Edwards belive Texas A&M students should vote for Mary Ann Ward for
County Clerk. If you get married, have children or buy property in Brazos
County you will need to work with the County Clerk's office.
Mary Ann Ward and her family have strong ties to Texas A&M.
Mary Ann's father-in-law, Albert "Pop" Ward, worked for Texas A&M
for 34 years as Campus Security Officer and also directed the planting of
the live oak trees across the campus.
Mary Ann's family includes four uncles and seventeen cousins who
graduated from Texas A&M.
Mary Ann Ward has 17 years experience in the County Clerk's office.
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