Freshman Diem Nguyen, left, and sophomore Marcela Lemma lake pari in a Halloween tradition by carv
ing pumpkins in their dorm room.
Traditions changing over time
With the onset of Halloween settling over Of
egon, children as well as diligent college
students have begun their annual search
for that perfect pumpkin,' the largest candy hold
mg pillowcase in the house, and the wildest outfit
feasible from the remains of grandma s closet
Yes, the unique traditions of Halloween have ar
rived once again
The remains of the ancient remembrance of the
dead on Halloween night is of a non Christian tradi
tion derived thousands of years ago But all reli
gious connotations have been stripped away Only
the ghost and witch stones remain among our mod
ern traditions
"Halloween has transcended into a children's
party,' said John Ncols. Professor of history and
classic Perhaps the children find the collecting of
candy as a way of relieving anxieties about the
dead
This is indeed an interesting notion about this
custom when you stop to consider the amount of
fright Halloween is expected to generate within
us.
Does Halloween have a profound a fled on us.
or is it mere child's play that has been hyped over
the years7
On a scale ot one to 10. we got about a 30' Wu
put three girls on the ground with one spook1 said
Scott Macdonald, an employee at St Vincent
DePaul in Wes! Eugene
Apparently some of the employees make it an
annual event to )Oin torces and set up Halloween
capers throughout the store to "surprise unsus
pectmg customers, such as the University women
mentioned above
Along with their imaginations, they used various
miscellaneous items within the store's contents to
create moving corpses with rattling chains that were
placed strategically throughout the store When the
unsuspecting customers walk by, the employees
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