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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1998)
ijifhe Battalion Page 3 • Friday, October 30, 1998 J l ROBERT HYNECEK/The Battalion I speak for®] ;! 3 6St mia ping lohaveai ‘i’s becauseg| i 1 only ok] “claim II probably if if speeches,” a spedaisiitj y and law, t ns of sexual a luations baseij eedings. S ex is sexual i< W given. Hei les contanis igconseni s if there is si i not mem lecision. i said wh al violence.:: hat constitut e relations,t been differ hroughtune •five years sc when detai of sexual sr ?nt is the I:? id. i said the is forum is tope Its from li system hasra imsofsexae lid. “SinceIt Ip themimr to preventts ndenbufg,a« major, said i im moreaww makeaposii sonal aspeast e encourage; erence by ®i •eof the law pr,-.«>Se I ^OOO-square-foot haunted house brings ofessionally spooky entertainment to B-CS less of lure BY MEREDITH HIGH! The Battalion he Fear Factory is not just any old haunted house — it is the first professional ven- ife of Innovative Attractions, a jfiiess recently founded by lid Hakimi. Jakimi has experience running Bunted house — he began and Mrdinated the Wicked Woods a member of Kappa Sigma cjternity at Texas A&M. fever since 1 was a little kid, I fed going to haunted houses. I ad never been to a really pro- ■onal one,” he said. “When I ItoA&M, 1 wanted to try and like one. ” jakimi said since the Fear Fac- fy is a professional venture, he Is able to get more elaborate than ter haunted houses in town. JlVe got to be a lot more intri- alwith the details. It gave me a [iffree reign,” he said. “It’s def- ilely notch above others.” jakimi had the help of Chi Phi fernity, whose members helped jld the sets and play the roles, ■like Moore, president of Chi ^hi.ind a senior management ma- aid the fraternity will donate 30 percent of the profit to Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Moore said Chi Phi and Hakimi were brought together by chance on the Fear Factory project. “We were, as Chi Phi, sup posed to do a haunted house for the Northgate Merchants Associ ation,” he said. STEPHANIE CORLEY/The Battalion A corpse hangs as one of the scary displays in the Fear Factory. “The building that Northgate gave us to build the house was be ing rented by David. So we just kind of came together.” Moore said there has been steady growth in attendance over the last few weeks. “The first couple of weeks were a little slow. We expect this weekend to be two to three times bigger than last weekend,” he said. Hakimi said he expects Hal loween weekend to be a big draw. “This last weekend was excel lent,” he said. “I expect Hal loween night to sell out early. I would recommend buying a tick et in advance.” The 5,000-square-foot Fear Factory, on 301 College Main be hind Northgate, takes about eight to 10 minutes to tour. Doors open 30 minutes after dark. Tickets are available at Disc-Go- Round, Rother’s and Supercuts. Tickets bought in advance are $8. Tickets are $10 at the door. Admission is $2 off with a canned food item. 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There are 200 bonus minutes to be had. l-800-PRIMEC(T (1*800 *7 74*6326) Austin, College Station bar scene growing pastime on Halloween BY MARIUM MOHIUDDIN The Battalion N ext to trick-or-treating, go ing to haunted houses is one of the more traditional ways to celebrate Halloween. However, clubs in College Sta tion and Austin will be offering a slightly different style of Hal loween entertainment — costume contests, music, dancing and so cializing with friends. Boo Gate is the Halloween bash on the Northgate prome nade. The evening will begin with a performance by the band Sly Letter at Fitzwilly’s at 6:30 p.m. Festivities will continue with Hay wood performing at 8 p.m. At 9:30 p.m., a grand costume contest will be held for cash prizes. Individual costume contests will be held at Crooked Path Ale House at 10 p.m., Fitzwilly’s at 11 p.m. and Shadow Canyon at 12 a.m. Shelby Willett, manager of Fitzwilly’s, said Boo Gate was held two years ago, and the mer chants are hoping for a bigger turnout this year. “We wanted to do it last year, but with the parking lot and the promenade under construction, we decided to wait,” he said. “We want people to come out, get to gether and see what we have to of fer. We would love to see people dress up and just go from place to place along Northgate having fun. ” Similar to Boo Gate is the Austin Halloween celebration on Sixth Street, where costumed vis itors can go from club to club. Angela Gillen, owner of The Flamingo Cantina, said Hal loween on Sixth Street is not or ganized but has become an an nual event. “The event is not sanctioned. It is very spontaneous,” she said. “People just come out really dressed up, and they parade up and down the streets. It is like a giant costume party.” The Austin police block off the streets when the crowd of an esti mated 20,000 to 100,000 people descend on Sixth Street. Many clubs hold their own cos tume contests, which results in people going from club to club trying to win prizes. Brian Ziprin, a senior studio arts major at the University of Texas at Austin, said he has been going to the Halloween celebra tion on Sixth Street since his freshman year and cannot imag ine any other place students might go. “Sixth Street is just the place you go on Halloween,” he said. “It is the sort of the thing for everyone to do. I would be surprised if any body was anywhere else. There is nothing that compares.” Gillen said she has seen many outrageous costumes dur ing the event. “There are all kinds of cos tumes,” she said. “I think that over the years, people have begun to get dressed up a lot more. It is an incredible sight. You see people on stilts and tons of pregnant nuns.” Gillen said one of the most out rageous outfits she has ever seen was one which won the costume contest in her club last year. “Last year the guy who won at my club was this guy who was a cross between the Terminator and an astronaut. It is hard to de scribe, but he had lights all over his suit and a laser eye. He really went all out.” Ziprin said the event is wild but he would not define it as out of control. “It is a madhouse, but it is not as hedonistic as Mardi Gras,” he said. “There is no room to walk, but I have not seen people caus ing trouble.” Ziprin said Halloween on Sixth Street is a spectacle that everyone should witness. “I have never dressed up,” he said. “I go to people-watch. The costumes are outrageous. Every body goes all out. It is a surreal atmosphere.” Gillen said there are several reasons people come out to Sixth Street. “Many people come dressed up,” she said. “However, I can imagine that half the people come to people- watch. If you like people watching, then you should come out to this event and also bring a camera.” ;T Presentation TONIGHT Astronaut (Retired) 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Rudder Theater Open to the public at no charge Astronaut, Engineer, Surgeon, Mathematician, Chemist, Computer Analyst, Biophysicist, Scholar, and Philosopher Hear about the calling to Space from the former scientist - astronaut who: ★ Became the oldest person to fly in Space ★ Tied the record for most spaceflights ★ Flew the longest shuttle mission ★ Served as payload commander on the 1993 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope On Saturday Don’t Miss... The Texas BEST State Robotics Championship G. 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