Halloween Costumes

Posted by Adriel Contreras in Campus

In anticipation of Halloween, one remembers the thrill and chill one had a child at about this time in the year.

Halloween decorations have already started to appear in student’s doors. Photo by Sandra Schoenenstein.

As adults, the manner in which we celebrate the day has gone from trick or treating and gorging on sweets to…attending Halloween parties and gorging on sweets. Yet the spirit of one particular aspect of the holiday remains mostly intact: costumes. Dressing up and playing pretend will always hold considerable fascination for us, be it as a slutty nurse or a Clone Trooper, the holiday engages our childhood imaginations and gives us an excuse to play upon these notions.

With our Halloween dance coming up  on Oct. 31 and much more inevitable house parties (be safe) I thought I’d ask a few people what they would be dressing up as for the night of Halloween.

Juan Rivera, a sophomore studio arts major, says he’s dressing up as the Mean Girls along with Alvarado Hurtado, a sophomore film major. “I’m going to dress as a slutty mean girl with my boy Alvie.”

Gabe Esling, a freshman year film major, gave a distinct character: “I’m going to go as Talion from Lord of the Rings, Shadow of Mordor.”

For those of you not familiar with the title, it is a video game based out of the Lord of the Rings universe and Talion is the protagonist that you play as through the game.

Jordan Glaza, a freshman film major, was very adamant about representing his sports team through his costume. “Well I’m going to be a Broncos Fan,” he said, “throw on my jersey and boom.”

Phillip Hoang, a freshman film major, who said that he would be dressing up as popular DC comics character Nightwing.

Finally I spoke to Lani Dekkler, a sophomore film major and Devon McNickles, a sophomore Contemporary Music Program major. McNickles will be dressing as a Death Eater from popular teen novel series Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling while Dekkler will be dressing as Thing 1 from popular children’s book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.

Very spooky. Look forward to a very character filled evening. And with our diverse nerdy population, expect to see your fair share of pop culture references.