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Thursday, Oct. 31
MSC Film Society is showing Psycho at Rudder
Theater Complex at 9:30 p.m.
Hotard Hall, a Northside residence hall, is host
ing Hotard From Hell from 6 p.m. to midnight.
Trick or Treat for children of A&M faculty and
staff is in the Fowler-Hughes-Keathley Complex
on Northside from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Free re
freshments are in 131 Fowler.
RHA is hosting RHAIIoween for children to go
through dorms trick-or-treating. Open to all chil
dren of B-CS. Meet at Ruder Fountain anytime
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
Haas, a Northside residence hall, is having a carni
val for the children of the community and the ones
participating in the RHAIIoween program.
The Fowler-Hughes-Keathley Complex is having a
haunted house for University students. Fifty
cents admission or a canned good will get you in
from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Meet in the A-l
lounge.
Hart and Appelt are having haunted houses at
their Southside dorms for the children of the
community and will also be visited by some of
the RHAIIoween children.
MSC Cepheid Variable is hosting “Otherworldly
Sci-Fi Disco” in MSC 226 from 7p.m. to 11 p.m.
It is a canned food drive with free refreshments
and a costume contest.
Class of "00 is hosting a haunted house at the Vet
School, 8 p.m. to midnight, adults $3, couples $5,
children 5-12 $1.
The Northgate District Associationis hosting a
Halloween Street Party in the Patricia Street
Parking Lot with The Woodies, The Suspects,
and The Rockafellas. Shows start at 6 p.m.
The Europe Club, Caribbean Student Associa
tion and the International Student Association
are having a Halloween party at 3rd Floor Canti
na 8 p.m. The party is open to the public.
Off-Campus Aggies are showing “The Dead
Zone” at the Palace Theater; HALF-LIFE is play
ing. There will also be a psychic, body piercing
and a costume contest, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., $5. All
proceeds go to the Red Cross.
Zeta Tau Alpha is hosting Halloween on Sorority
Row. Each house is sponsoring a different activ
ity for children to participate in, face painting,
haunted house, bobbing for apples, games;
roads will be blocked off and security guards will
be placed at the corners for safety; on sorority
row from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Sigma Phi Epsilon presents its 3rd Annual
Haunted House benefiting Scotty’s House in
Bryan at the Fort Shiloh Steak House, 2528
Texas Avenue South, starts at 8 p.m., tickets $5
at the door, $1 off with a canned good, $4 ad
vance tickets available at Marooned Records.
Omega Delta Phi is having a Fright Knight
scholarship hellraiser at El Tejano Ranch with a
costume contest with prizes. Prices are $3 with
a costume, $4 without.
Zeta Psi is having a haunted house. Call 822-
2602 for directions, $4 with a canned good and
$5 without, starts at 8 p.m.
Kappa Sigma is hosting the Wicked Woods. A
shuttle is running from the Barracuda Bar on
Wellborn Road to the Kappa Sigma house. Ad
mission is $7 or $5 with a canned good, admis
sion to the Barracuda Bar will be free for those
paying for the Woods. Ty and the Semiautomat
ics is playing at the Barracuda Bar. Take HW 60
past 2818 and exit Turkey Creek Road, go past
the stop sign, and the house is two blocks down
on the right.
Company C-2 of the Corps will present The Right
of the Great Pumpkin starting at 10:15 p.m. They
will start at the arches to the Quad and try to
throw a pumpkin on the band dorms, and the band
will try to stop them. People with questions can
call Skip Schaper at 847-6694.
The Dixie Theatre is having a Halloween party
with Pushmonkey and Sunflower.
Bullwinkle’s is having a Great Pumpkin Bash:
with rock bands Linus, Lewis and Jester. Shows!
starts 9 p.m.
Sneaky Pete, a sing-along and novelty tunes act, |
is playing at the Halloween party at the Cow Hop!
from 9:30 p.m.-l a.m.
Allan Mayes, an edgy classic rock act with a dry!
sense of humor, is playing at the Chelsea Street!
Pub & Grill.
Bobby Hall and the Ice Cold Blues Band is play !
ing at the Palace Theater in Historic Downtown!
Bryan from noon until 1 p.m.
The Texas A&M theater department is present-{
ing Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel, in the Fall-i ;
out Theater in Room 144 Blocker at 8 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 2
Ruthie Foster, a rhythm & blues singer is play
ing at 3rd Floor Cantina at 8 p.m.
Ruthie Foster
Just J, an acoustic act, is playing at Sweet Eu-j
gene’s at 9:30 p.m.
Hypnotist Dr. Downs is at Bullwinkle’s at 8:30 p.m. !
The Texas Renaissance Festival is being held in!
Plantersville. Call 1-800-458-3435 for information, i
Path of Tears, a country-rock band from Waco, is!
playing at Fitzwillys.
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Saturday Night Moses, a rock band, with open-!
ing band Jazztop, is playing at the Cow Hop.
Saturday, Nov. 1
MSC Film Society is showing The Rock in the!
Rudder Theater Complex at 7 p.m. and 9:30j
p.m.
The Texas Renaissance Festival is being held inj
Plantersville. Call 1-800-458-3435 for information.
The Voodudes, a classic rock band, is playing!
at Fitzwillys.
Superband Wasteband, a rock band, is playing!
at Brazos Brewing Company at 9 p.m.
Blue Earth, a rock band, with opening band In;
Spector 12, is playing at the Cow Hop.
Sunday, Nov. 2
Spic Macy is presenting Shobha Subramanian in!
an Indian classical dance at Rudder Theater,!
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Rumors of haunted buildings on campus
circulate during Halloween season
By JoAnne Whittemore
The Battalion
W hen Texas A&M students speak of “spirit,”
they are usually referring to Aggie spirit.
But some say another kind of “spirit” fre
quents the campus.
Students tell many ghost stories and legends.
One ghost story is about the hauntings in the
animal sciences meat lab formerly located in the
Animal Industries Building.
Roy Simms, a former meat laboratory manager,
was slaughtering animals in the basement one night
when he cut a femoral artery in his leg and began to
bleed profusely.
Simms was alone in the building and had to drag
himself up the basement steps with blood trailing be
hind him. He died from severe blood loss once he
reached the top of the
stairs.
Legend says one can
hear the shrieks and
cries, late at night, of
animals as they are
slaughtered.
One can still hear the
elevator as it comes up
from the basement, ris
es to the top floor, and
returns to the main
floor empty.
Joe Fenton, curator of
the Sam Houston
Sanders Corps Center,
tells the story of the
“Ghost of OT Army.”
“The underground of
campus is a network of
tunnels,” he said. “There
lives the ‘Ghost of OT
Army.’ He rides a gray
stallion called Whoop. At
2 in the morning, you
can hear him call his
horse, ‘Whoop!’”
Fenton said the
“Ghost of OF Army”
protects ladies and
good Aggies. Ryan Rogers, The Battalion
When you hear a Q oat heads adorn the Animal Industries Building,
whoop, you know Ol w hich has been rumored to be haunted by cries of
Army is coming to the s | aU g ht ered animals,
rescue, he said.
Fentor said the spirits could possibly be awak
ened by campus construction.
“A lot of stories and moments frozen in time stay
there until big excavation equipment comes in and
the area is disturbed,” he said.
Duncan Dining Hall is presumably haunted. It
was built on land that used to be a graveyard but
was moved to West Campus.
Andria Pierce, a former Duncan Volunteer and
A&M graduate, said Duncan sometimes becomes
eerie at night.
“There were always noises,” she said. “Chairs
would move. A friend of mine told me that she and
another guy had stacked some chairs against the
wall. They heard something on the other side of the
room, so they went to check it out.
“When they came back, the chairs weren’t
stacked anymore. They had been spread out. Some
of the noises are from machinery, but other stuff,
you don’t want to know about.”
Fenton said students may periodically catch a
glimpse of the ghost of Lawrence Sullivan Ross on
campus.
“It’s only natural that you would see someone re
sembling Sully checking classrooms and pausing
under the oak trees, especially along Military Walk,”
he said.
In a letter sent to
The Battalion, a for
mer student identi
fied as K.G. wrote of
his encounter with
the ghost of Sully.
“An elderly gentle
man in a long over
coat approached
silently from the mist
and sat on the bench
without speaking,” he
wrote.
The gentleman had
on clothes “from a dif
ferent era” and reas
sured K.G. that he
would get his degree if
he would make an of
fering — not pennies
— at the Sul Ross stat
ue every day until he
graduated.
K.G. wrote that he
did not know who the
gentleman was until
he went to the Sul
Ross statue.
“There, frozen in
bronze and glistening
wet with evening
dew, was the elderly
gentleman who, only
two hours before, had
sat and spoken to
me,” he wrote.
Students have their doubts about the validity of
these stories.
Steven Foster, Corps of Cadets commander and a
senior political science major, jokingly said, “The
only ghosts I’ve seen around here are the dead zips
who haven’t graduated yet.”
Whether any of these stories are true is up to the
imagination of the reader.
Halloween safety requires sense
Authorities attempt to thwart would-be criminals tonight
By Brandon Hausenfluck
The Battalion
C ollege Station, Bryan and University law en
forcement officials are not anticipating any
thing out of the ordinary this Halloween.
Bob Wiatt, University Police Department director,
said people need to remain aware of their surround
ings, especially since it is Halloween.
“[UPD] has not planned any special activities,”
Wiatt said. “But throughout the year there are always
spooks and hobgoblins out there that need to be
looked out for.
“People just need to realize that there are some
bad guys out there.”
Wiatt said in the past few years there has not
been any significant increases in criminal activity
on campus during Halloween.
The College Station Police Department is pre
pared to handle a variety of minor crimes that could
occur Halloween night.
Lt. Scott McCollum, CSPD public information of
ficer, said safety comes in numbers.
“There’s going to be quite a bit of people out
there who will be in a mischievous state of mind,”
he said. “People should travel in crowds with
some friends.”
McCollum said popular offenses that take place
on Halloween night include throwing eggs and
stealing or smashing pumpkins, which are crimi
nal mischief offenses.
Lynda Rieger,
Bryan Police Depart
ment records super
visor, said although
nine collisions and
five assaults were re
ported last year on
Halloween, these
numbers are not far
above average.
She said Bryan po
lice officers will be
working security at
different functions
throughout the city.
Wiatt has advice
for any potential trou
ble-makers.
“If these people (criminals) want to get spooky,
they can hide under their covers and let the rest of
us have a good time,” Wiatt said.
“There’s going to
be quite a bit of
people out there
who will be in a
mischievous
state of mind.”
Lt. Scott McCollum
CSPD public information
officer