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Catholic Campus Ministry Fall Retreat WHO IS JESUS? 004695 October 30 ■ November 1 $25 includes Food, Mountain Hiking, Relaxing, Jesus, and a Halloween Party Contact Ryan at 343-7021 or newman@efn.org 1850 Emerald Street (across from Hayward Field) l)c4^ 't tc Crrtt*( *<l*i<t Vue ptoplt 50% off great travel packs! Eurailpasses issued on the spot! Plan early for Thankgiving! Council Travel CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange 877 1/2 East 13th Street, Eugene 1222 East 13th Street, EMU Building, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene [54l]-344-2263 www.counciltraveL.com The Art of Conversation. We’ll provide the canvas. MusEvenings The New Scene in Eugene. Every Wednesday from 5-8 p.m. at the UO Museum of Art. Free to all! Call 346-3027for more information. Students get creative while carving Getting creative with pumpkins is a holiday tradition on campus By Nicole Garton Oregon Daily Emerald A trip to the patch can be an ad venture, but picking the pumpkin is only half the fun. Carving the shell into a Hal loween masterpiece is what the tradition is all about. The human penchant for creat ing pumpkin art is reflected in the myriad pumpkin-carving contests that typically accompany the hol iday, as well as in the diverse jack-o’-lanterns that grin from neighborhood porches. And many students dive into the tradi tion with relish. Every year, senior Leslie Nico las carves a traditional pumpkin, with triangle eyes and nose. "It’s supposed to look normal,” the history major says — except for the gore-laden knife sticking out of it. “I mix red dye with the guts, and I hang it from the knife,” she explains. Smearing the knife with “blood” and lighting a candle in side completes the effect. “People look at it and go, ‘Oh my God, what did you do to that poor pumpkin?’” Nicolas says. “I tell them it died." Freshman Jennifer Toney also approaches pumpkin carving with zest, but she takes a less gruesome approach. “I’m more of a soft, friendly evil-spirited person,” she says, al though she did cut a pumpkin in half once — “but that was by acci dent.” Toney experiments with a vari ety of decorating techniques. “The triangle face looks kind of boring,” she says. Instead, she uses circles and jagged lines to carve her faces. “Once I carved a design with little waves and tiny lines all over the pumpkin,” she recalls. “There was just enough of the pumpkin left to hold together.” Toney likes to carve faceless designs on her jack-o’-lanterns. “Maybe because I’m a psychology major, I want to get away from faces," she said. Senior history major James Cur tis also likes to diverge from the traditional triangular features. His pumpkins sport representations of modern characters and reli gious themes. “Some are more ornate,” he says, “and sometimes they’re more fanciful.” His most interesting carving featured representations of figures from Japanese folklore. “We looked through history books, picked a picture and drew it onto the pumpkin and carved it out,” he explains. While Curtis’ pumpkins typi cally take about an hour to carve, he and a friend spent six or seven hours on that one. But when it comes to carving with his two kids, 2 1/2 and 3 years old, simpler faces usually do the trick, although Curtis ad mits his kids have more fun play ing in the pumpkin seeds. “I like to get a big pumpkin so my son fits in it,” he says. Matt Garton/Emerald A horse-drawn buggy caiTies pumpkin pickers to the patch at Hetrick Farms Sunday morning. Pumpkins Continued from Page 1 pound giant purchased a few years ago, required three men to carry it out to her Nissan Sentra. Too big to sit in back, the vast vegetable rode home in the front passenger seat. “It wouldn’t fit in anyone’s trunk, and I wasn’t going to leave my pumpkin,” Brennan recalls. “We had to seat belt it in.” Brennan freely admits that when it comes to pumpkins, size does matter. “I like great big pumpkins,” she says as her 1-year-old son Chase embraces this year’s pick, a pumpkin bigger than he is. Out in the patch, a hayride away from the parking lot and scales at Herrick Farms, Spring field residents Marlon Kanafsky and his family pore over the plump selections, rejecting first one, then another. At the shout of his daughter, Coral, Kanafsky huddles over a potential candi date. “We’ll probably get four — one for each of us,” he explains. His family prefers larger pumpkins, although their taste isn’t quite as extreme as Brennan’s. He esti mates their record load at about 40 pounds. On the other hand, Sandi Miles of Springfield and her grand daughter, Daija Farmer, prefer the small pumpkins, and as they wait for the hay wagon to carry them back across the farm, Daija easily grips a small, round pumpkin. While size is important, it isn’t the only standard by which pumpkins are judged. Shape plays an important part in the de cision, and a desirable pumpkin must present a proper face for carving. “I like one I can carve a really nice face on, and I like to do etch ing around the face,” Brennan says. The taller, more oblong pump kins are the best for carving, Kanafsky says. Alisha Walker, a senior busi ness major at the University, agrees. “I like ones with a long side so you can carve it and a flat bottom so it stands upright,” she ex plains. For some, like Brennan, comb ing the patch for just the right fu ture jack isn’t always easy. “We’re looking for the Great Pumpkin,” she says. But Springfield resident Peter Anctil’s choice is simple. He points to his toddling son, who has just taken off across the field. “We pick whatever he likes — usually the biggest ones.” ©regoaWJZEmeraUj The Oreoon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday throuQh Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc. at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald op erates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private prop erty The unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable NEWSROOM — M6-SS11 Editor In chief: Ryan Frank Managing Editor Laura Cadiz Community: Mike Hines, editor. David Ryan, Felicity Ayles Entertainment: Mike Burnham, editor. Amy Boytz Higher Education: Ten Meeuwsen, editor Sarah Skidmore, Tricia Schwennesen In-depth: Nicole Garton, Eric Collins Perspective: Jonas Allen, Kameron Cole, editors. Amy Goldhammer, Stefanie Knowlton, Vince Medeiros. 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