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PAINT THE CAMPUS BOO STUDENTS AND ALUMNI FILLED FOUNTAIN PLAZA PARTICIPATING IN A COSTUME CONTEST, FACE PAINTING, BALLOON ANIMAL MAKING AND CANVAS PAINTING SET UP BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION THURSDAY NIGHT. TIMEKO DAVIS FACE-PAINTS A HALLOWEEN SKULL ONTO HOLLY GO’S JAW. PHOTOS BY SAIRA SIKANDAR Friday, October 28, 2016 VOL. 84 NO. 038 AFRAID OF SPIDERS? SIX AWFUL OUTFITS YOU’LL SEE THIS YOU’RE NOT ALONE. PAGE 3 HALLOWEEN PAGE 4 TIGERS HOPE TO SCARE A VICTORY OUT OF TULSA PAGE 8 SIX SPOOKY THINGS TO SEE ON CAMPUS PAGE 5 SIX PLACES TO GO THIS HALLOWEEN WEEKEND PAGE 2 DESIGNED BY ALANA KING AND JONATHAN CAPRIEL 2 I FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2016 WWW.DAILYHELMSMAN.COM Six things to do on Halloween other than trick-or-treating food in an abandoned church. dancing and having a good time. encouraged to dress up for the Jonathan Capriel By Alexis Young Editor-in-Chief [email protected] The church has three floors There was plenty of room for role. Players can bring their own [email protected] with a different DJ for each floor. people to move around, and I masks and even wear makeup if Gus Carrington Managing Editor Fall is here and Halloween This year, the party will feature liked that I was able to move to a they choose too. [email protected] is around the corner, The Daily a fourth DJ to enhance the mu- different floor if I wanted to hear Zombies can bite (shoot) and Mitchell Koch Helmsman has come up with six sic. U of M’s Iota Phi Theta and different music.” convert other players into zom- Managing Editor different events you may enjoy. Omega Psi Phi fraternities will Zombie Laser Tag bies. Survivors who are “bitten” [email protected] Cooper Street Massacre be hosting the event Saturday If partying isn’t your forte, you have to put on zombie masks Alex Ellington Design Editor Party at 1015 Cooper St in the historic can always slay some zombies at and attempt to convert remain- [email protected] For college students look- Cooper Young district. Shelby Farms. Battle Front Laser ing survivors into zombies. Alana King ing for a late night party where Junior Kierra Hutcherson Tag & Paintball presents Zombie Brian Lockhart, representa- Design Editor [email protected] they can dress up as their favor- said last year’s Halloween party Laser tag, which goes on the en- tive of Battle Front Laser Tag, ite characters, the third annual was the best event of the fall tire month of October. said the event is a great turnout Chip Williams Sports Editor Cooper Street Massacre Party is semester. The event allows players to each year. [email protected] the perfect event. “I’ve went each year and it’s choose between being a zom- “On average we get about 500 Raven Copeland Copy Editor Each year, hundreds of stu- always been a great experience,” bie or a survivor. Survivors use people to play in the month, and [email protected] dents from University of Mem- Hutcherson said. “The min- swat laser tag guns to destroy we typically have more people Jackie Quintanar phis and neighboring colleges ute you walk in, you’re greeted brain hungry zombies. Players Copy Editor see on page [email protected] enjoy a night of good music and by people in scary costumes who choose to be zombies are HALLOWEEN 7 Candy Justice General Manager What is your biggest fear? AdvertisingBob Willis Manager Sharon Whitaker Administrative/Sales ANNE CATHERINE DEMERE | STAFF Brittany Lee Advertising Production About us The Daily Helmsman is a designated public forum. 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And Not only is it an irrational we need them to tell us [email protected] tional Institute of Mental after I do kill it, I start to fear, but it interferes with when some things are not Health, the fear of spiders itch a little.” how you cope with your safe,” Whelan said. “Pho- He felt his heart skip (arachnophobia) is the Only 12 out of 40,000 life.” bias on the other hand, a beat. His eyes had wid- third-most common pho- species of spiders can Whelan said individu- whether it be spiders, el- ened. His body began to bia among adults, behind cause serious harm to hu- als with phobias are more evators or even travelling, tingle and get itchy all over fear of public speaking and man adults, but for true sensitive to the world and can limit a person from as he walked into Dunkin’ fear of death. arachnophobics, it doesn’t are more anxious and tend their job, having fun or Donuts on Poplar Avenue Considering how preva- matter. Their fear is not to pay more attention to even having family time.” and saw that his boss had lent spider decorations are just a fear of real spiders subtle cues. Harden, however, is spider decorations all over this time of year, Hallow- but also pictures of spiders “A spider crawling in doubtful he will ever be the store for Halloween. een can be a rough time and plastic spider toys or your direction is a fear that cured of his phobia of “I’ve always had a pho- for arachnophobics. decorations — an irratio- can be turned into a pho- spiders. bia of spiders for as long Chemistry major, Nicho- nal fear. bia,” Whelan said. “When “I would love to be cured as I can remember,” Jared le Cheatham, 22, reacts in Jim Whelan, a psycholo- a person sees a spider of my phobia, but I am Harden, 23, dance major an entirely different way gy professor at the U of M, they run from it, and it is sure that would mean ac- at the University of Mem- than Harden when she said fear and phobias are rewarding because they tually facing it in some phis, said. “The decora- sees a spider. not the same things. avoided the spider.” way,” Harden said. “I do not tive spiders on the wall at “I wouldn’t necessarily “A fear is just a cogni- Whelan said there are believe that I would ever work are pretty unsettling. say that I have a phobia of tive, emotional response phobia treatments such as have the courage to look When I first saw them, I them, but I am still fearful to risk or danger that pre- self-help books and pro- directly at a spider or have panicked a little, but now of spiders,” Cheatham said. pares our bodies to avoid fessional help from well- one touch me or anything.