WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30.2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Greeks' haunt to help charity
By Todd Rapp
trapp@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
This Halloween, three National Pan-Hellenic Council chapters will volunteer their time for children and charity.
Delta Sigma Theta, Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta all have Halloween community service events planned for tomorrow.
The women of Delta Sigma Theta plan to trick-or-treat for canned goods in the 6th and Wakarusa area.
Brandi Taylor, president of Delta Sigma Theta, said the event originated five years ago when their chapter took part in Adopt-A-Family, but now the canned goods are donated to the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen.
She said the chapter's goal is to collect 200 cans.
Children looking for a fright are welcome to attend the Phi Beta Sigma Haunted House at Kennedy Elementary School.
Despite limited funds for construction, the men of Phi Beta Sigma plan to show children a spooky time.
"You don't need anything too extraordinary to scare little kids; you just need to be creative," Jason Hylton, president of Phi Beta Sigma, said.
Terminally ill children at the University of Kansas Medical Center will be able to enjoy costumes and candy thanks to women of Zeta Phi Beta and their graduate chapter, Alpha Epsilon Theta.
The women will dress up and distribute candy to the children staying at the center.
The money for the candy was raised by selling ghost-grams on campus since October 21, Jennifer Leog, vice president of Zeta Phi Beta, said.
sure. The ghost-grams are personal messages that can be bought for $2 and delivered to anyone on campus by members of Zeta Phi Beta.
For more information about the events, contact Mike Conley at 864-4861.
Halloween fans devise odd disguises
By Lindsay Hanson
lhanson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Stephanie Launer, Barrington, Ill., junior, said she couldn't wait to show off the floor-length red skirt and navy apron her mother had just finished sewing.
This Halloween, one KU student found herself reverting to her roots for the ideal costume.
sewing. Her costume replicates apparel that adorns the bar maiden from the St. Pauli Girl beer bottle label.
"I thought it would be perfect because I'm German, so I might as well be the German beer wench," she said, chuckling.
While many college student dress up for Halloween, Launer is part of a smaller group of students who have made an extra effort to find a unique
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costume this year. Icelandic pop singer Björk's 2001 Academy Awards dress inspired one student's costume.
costume this year.
Jennifer Ward, Wichita junior, said she had the early idea to create a similar dress with the unusual element of a fake swan that wraps around the neck. This allowed herself ample time to tweak the costume. Ward said she had scoured local craft stores to find the right materials: Funky Foam sheets of soft rubber for a beak, tulle — the material tutus are made of — for the skirt and a piece of white fur to represent feathers.
"The one thing I love about Halloween is you get these lazy people that take a regular shirt they throw blood on it and say, 'I'm a dead cow-
Halloween is not the time for uncreative disguises, according to one student.
"I think being in college is like being a little kid. You take naps, watch cartoons eat cereal for every meal and dress up for Halloween.
Megan Johnson Troy sophomore
boy." said Jason Barr, Olathe junior. "I think it's so funny."
The music industry sparked an idea for Barr.
He said he couldn't resist representing the Norwegian death metal subculture this Halloween with his disguise: a long, stringy, black wig, gauntlets and a battle axe.
He said the early 1990s had produced several underground bands whose members studied Norse mythology and made war on other metal bands, sending bombs to them.
Spending the night as a dominatrix is on the agenda for Megan Johnson, Troy sophomore. Johnson began scouting for materials when she decided to build her disguise, a take on The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the musical Cabaret, from scratch.
Johnson said she had taken a break from Halloween in high school and didn't pick up the habit of celebrating again until college.
"I think being in college is like being a little kid," she said. "You take naps, watch cartoons, eat cereal for every meal and dress up for Halloween."
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Sweet Transvestite
James Crowl (left) Overland Park junior, congratulates Emporia freshmen Keegan Han, Ken Easthouse and Dennis McGowan after the trio was named best costume before the screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show. "This was mostly an impulse thing," said McGowan, "and my costume was less than 25 bucks." Student Union Activities sponsored the event, which took place last night at the ballroom in the Kansas Union.
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