THURSDAY,OCTOBER31,2002 NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 7A² Thrifty students raid parents' homes for holiday decor By Matt Stumpff mstumpff@kansan.com Kansan staff writer Students on a tight budget still found a way to dress up their residences for Halloween. Students only made up about 20 percent of the Halloween decorations business at Paper Warehouse this year, said Christina Schlosser, assistant manager. She said she had noticed a decline of student sales this year. But the decline may mean students found alternative ways to spruce up their homes. One alternative was raiding their parents' homes. Joah Buchanan, Eudora freshman, said she and her three roommates at Lewis Hall had some of the better decorations in the hall, even though they had relied almost entirely on recycled decorations from their parents. Buchanan said the only decorations she had bought were the two pumpkins in her room. She said she was proud of her door, which had a spider web and a witch door knocker that made sounds. "There's only one other door in the hall that's decorated for Halloween, so that makes it kind of unique," Buchanan said. Also adorning the freshman's door are four paper ghosts with the names of all the roommates. "My roommate got it from a coloring book and then made copies," Buchanan said. Bob Holmes, Topeka junior, said he also went the inexpensive route when decorating his house for Halloween. "We got it all from my mom's house." Holmes said. A dressed-up pest is among the decorations imported from his Topeka home. "My roommate named him Swampy," Holmes said. "Just because he's a really big rat, and he looks like a swamp rat." Holmes said the decorations would help set an atmosphere for his Halloween party. But he said he would have decorated anyway, "just to be festive." Holmes said his house's decorations wouldn't have been complete without pumpkins. He said he had saved money by going straight to the source, the pumpkin patch, instead of dishing out retail price at a grocery store. "I thought it'd be kind of fun to go out, there," Holmes said. The wholesale prices allowed him to purchase five pumpkins, Holmes said. But, only three survived a pumpkin-smashing incident. - Edited by Nicole Roché Zach Straus/Kansan This decorated door in Lewis Hall belongs to freshmen Candace Misko, Wichita; Ashley Diener, Sacramento, Calif.; Joah Buchanan, Eudora; and Sumitha Nagarajan, Dlathe. "I just really like Halloween," Misko said. Residence halls offer climate-controlled candy collecting By Matt Stumpff mstumpff@kansan.com Kansan staff writer The average age in the residence halls will decrease for two hours tonight. Trick-or-treaters escaping the elements of the outdoors will go door to door to score candy from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today. Hall residents sign up at their front desks to receive a paper pumpkin to post on their doors. The pumpkins indicate to youngsters which residents are doling out candy. Jason Barker, Wichita sophomore, said there would not be a pumpkin on his door. "I'm going out partying," Barker said. If he didn't have plans, he said he would stay to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. Sara Logan, Houston freshman, said her residence-hall wing was excited for the children to arrive. "It will be fun with all the little kids." Logan said. "It'll be cute." Parties can wait until after 8 p.m., said Ryan O'Shea, St. Louis freshman. O'Shea said he planned to go out to celebrate Halloween after fulfilling his duty to the children. Residents may hear more knocking on their doors than in the past because of a change in the day of the program. Halloween, said Julie Smith, Cook,Neb.,graduate student and coordinator for the trick-or-treating program. She said that moving the program to Halloween day should make the program more effective. "We thought maybe more people would show up since parents would only have to put them in their costumes once," Smith said. The weather may cause more trick-or treaters to seek the climate-controlled residence halls as well, Smith said. The forecast indicates colder candy-seeking conditions than in the past. The KU department of atmospheric sciences forecasts a high of 42 degrees for today and a low of 33 degrees for tonight. According to the National Weather Service's climatology database, last year's high on Halloween was about 20 degrees warmer. John Edison, Lawrence resident and father of two children, ages 7 and 4, said weather would definitely play a role in whether or not he took advantage of the residence hall program. Edison said that if the weather permitted, he would take his children through his neighborhood to collect candy. "If it's raining or really cold, we'll go up there," Edison said. 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