Tuesday, September 19,. t
Tuesday, September 19, 2000
News in Brief
APSS creates
tenter program
Fhe Texas A&M Association
Professional Support Staff
PSS) mentor program wii;
'A Staff Helping Staff Net
rking Event in 206 Memoo-
Student Center at noon
jrsday.
The program, in its first year
rying to create the first mer-
program for new A&M staff, i
j faculty.
Mentors hel^ new staff arc I g v s puart Hutson
ulty members adjust toIX,
M culture and offer advice. |
Laura Ampol-Hall, co-chairf
man of the TAPSS mento
igrain and the administrative
sistant for the Academyfo
vanced Telecommunications
d Learning Technologies,
id the meeting will include
• mentor/mentee relation-
ip among staff members,the
portance of the mentoring
>gram and the goals for the
ganization.
All mentors are TAPSS men
rs. but mentees are not initially
luired to be a part of the group
lulticultural
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IHalloween-loving patrons and stores dres^up eprly for the most ghoulish night of the year
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srvices Dept, hosts
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The Multicultural ServicesDe
irtment is hosting an Aware
'ss Week Sept. 18-22 to ede
te students about the differed
rvices and programs offeredd
e department. The weekwilihe
ghlighted by an open house
id a silent auction Friday in the
emorial Student Center.
Resource tables will be set up
Rudder Fountain and the
ehner College of Business
uilding this week. Trivia games
id the auction will be held at
e open house. «
Information on severalstu-
ent organizations associated
ith the Multicultural Services
epartment, includingMinotto
A cold, shrill wind blew into Aggieland a few days
ago, ushering in the crisp air of fall to bring relief from
the fierce, blazing sun of summer.
The air is now permeated with a smell unique to
the season. The odor brings an expectation of the
books and tests of the fall semester to many, but
to others, it fosters anticipation of something
much more wicked.
Soon, jack-o’-lanterns will begin to mani
fest on doorsteps and spider webs will accu-
imulate in the most apparent of places.
These webs will not be spun by big, hairy
spiders of the kind that haunt an arachna-
phobe’s nightmares; they vt ill instead be
strewn by devotees of the one night a year
that the veil between evil and good is lift
ed — the halloweenie.
These members of the darker side an
ticipate Halloween like a 5-year-old antic
ipates his or her birthday. It is for them that
stores around the country began to stock
shelves with plastic skeletons and sugary
pumpkin candy almost a month ago.
"On the first day we opened, we had peo
ple waiting to get at all the Halloween items
they had been waiting a year to see,” said
Adam Artho, an assistant manager at the Hal-
loweemBootique, a specialty Halloween store
irichment and Developmer-;..,, , a \ -^u ■ ,u-
irough Academic and Leadf 0 Pf. ne 1 d ^ ^ There ls 1 som ! th , ln 8
lip Skills (MEDALS) and tbI about this hollda y that g lves P e0 P le a fe e |m g
outhwestern Black Stude | hat 110 other holiday can provide,
aadership Conference “It gives them a chance to dress up dnd be
LC), will be available at'f someone else that they otherwise wouldn’t be,
pen house. yand it allows them to do things that they otherwise
The or;’. .■ j/ations assoc couldn't do. Christmas is about family and giving,
ith the department are f- thanksgiving is about being thankful for all that you have,
?ting to attract as many vis but Halloween is about indulging yourself.”
It is a feeling some people want to hold onto as long as they can.
hey start celebrating the holiday as soon as possible, because on
ov. 1, the party is over.
“We get people from all walks of life — bikers, goths, sorority
iris, older men ... you name it,” Artho said. “Some don’t even wait
the open house as possit
ie organization that attracts
lost visitors will win a prizefn
ie department.
iouthwest
•arkway partial
:losed today
Southwest Parkway in Co 1
?ge Station will be partial
losed today as city crewsapp;
seal coat to the road,Cre«
rill apply a new layer of aspte:
nd stone material from Wei
orn Road to Welsh Avenue.
Beginning at 9 a.m.,oneea$‘
ound and one westboundwj
f Southwest Parkway will ^
losed while the seal isappfe 1
About noon, the crewi;
iwitch sides and sealtlieir
naining lanes.
The repairs are expected 1 -- |
>e finished by 4 p.m., and* !
anes will be reopened.
Drivers are asked tobeca: :
ious around the work areal ;
>bey all traffic signs amf .
vatch out for workers.
GRAPHIC BY BRANDON HENDERSON/The Battalion
to put on their costumes; they buy them so that they can wear them out to the
bar or club the next night.”
Artho said he has seen a continuous increase in interest in Halloween cel
ebrations over the past few years.
“Just judging from sales, we have seen a steady 10 percent increase year
ly, but you can also tell by the number and attitude of the people coming in
here,” he said. “More organizations are giving parties or hosting haunt
ed houses — that contributes to early interest because you have to pre
pare for those things.”
Brandy Vacante, a sales supervisor at Spencer Gifts, said many
halloweenies have been investing early in decorations.
“Most people are buying decorations like spider webs and
black lights right now and are just picking and choosing on
costumes,” Vacante said. “I guess they are trying to build
llr: that atmosphere that only really comes with Halloween.
It’s the only time of the year where you can walk around
in an outrageous costume and have people tell you,
‘Hey, that’s a cool costume,’ instead of just looking
I at you like you are stupid.”
Artho said that a large number of early sales re
sult from college students investing in black lights
and black-light-reactive materials to give an eerie
effect that can only be projected by a properly lit
t residence hall room.
| The avid halloweenie will be satisfied only
with the perfect costume. To attain such a lofty
goal, the halloweenie must begin well in ad
vance of the ghoulish date.
“Probably the biggest reason we get people in
early is so that they can get the right stuff for their
costume before it gets sold out,” said Jeff
Lowther, a sales associate for the Halloween Boo-
tique. “People learn that some of the more popular
items are not going to be around in late October.”
Those popular items may not be the dark
shrouds that one expects. Artho said the biggest
sellers so far are scary only if one has a phobia of
the ’50s or ’70s.
“Poodle skirts are a big favorite for the gals,
and some of the guys,” he said. “Pimp outfits are
also popular.”
If one must go toward the gruesome side of the
wardrobe, Artho said movie monsters slaughter stereo
typical zombies and vampires.
“We get a lot of people asking for Jason, Freddy
Krueger or Michael Myers, and we have a whole section
dedicated to the Scream movies,” he said. “But one of the
scariest was a guy who worked months to perfect his Richard
Simmons costume.”
Whatever costumed is donned, Artho said, a witch rather than a warlock
will get to it first.
“We find that the majority of people who buy costumes and other things ear
ly are women,” he said. “I’m not sure why, but they tend to be the most prepared
when it comes to preparing for Halloween night. Maybe it is because it lets them
photos by chad adams/the battalion be a little more revealing than usual — whether it is a vampire or just a sexy nun.”
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