THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGIAN pg3 CALENDAR 30th Fall Pow Wow Get philanthropic with Lambda Theta NU sorority CSU Clue Annual Goose Masquerade Ball 2012 CSU Band Day pg2 Campus haunts pg9 CSU prof. puts on his booty shakin’ pants No Halloween costume yet? Dont be afraid... How to get creepily covered in a hurry By Emily Smith e Rocky Mountain Collegian Halloween is just ve days away, and for many folks, the festivities will begin this weekend. If you’ve been slacking on preparing your costume(s) for this year’s frightening fetes, read on for a last- minute guide to 2012’s hottest get ups. Happy Halloween! Collegian writer Emily Smith can be reached at [email protected]. FOR THE GUYS… FOR THE GALS… Replacement referee Honey Boo Boo All you need for this costume is a Foot Lock- Not only does her name re ect one of Hal- er uniform, a baseball cap and a whistle. Walk loween’s most common catchphrases (Boo), she is around all night like you’re confused and just one of pop culture’s hottest reality TV child stars. generally don’t know what’s going on. If you re- To dress up as this pint-size pageant queen, all ally want to sell it, call incorrect party fouls and you need is a tutu, a tiara and a garbled Southern yell “after review, the ruling on the eld stands!” accent. If you really want to go all out, add in a “Little Miss Princess” sash and carry around a live Magic Mike pig with a name tag that says “Glitzy.” If you’re looking for a certain kind of treat on Halloween night, this is the costume for you, Katniss Everdeen fellas. Magic Mike’s “It’s Raining Men” number Girls want to be her, guys want to date from the beginning of the movie inspires your her. Or maybe fight her? This “Hunger Games” out t: dress pants, no shirt, a tie and a fedora. heroine is an easy Halloween costume to pull Also required for this costume: a six-pack, waxed off. Style your hair in a side-braid and wear chest and killer dance moves, all of which can be green cargo pants, leather boots and a leather purchased secondhand at the Halloween Wal- jacket. Add in a bow and arrows and “mock- Mart (aka Goodwill). ingjay” pin if you can. Now you just have to look tough. Felix Baumgartner May the Halloween odds be ever in your favor. is daredevil recently skydived from 24 miles above the earth in a history-making stunt Hipster Disney princess sponsored by Red Bull. His astronaut suit is a is one’s super easy: bust out that old fairly easy get-up to replicate and you’ll probably Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty costume from a be regarded as the most radical guy at any party. few years ago and just add black, thick-rimmed Carry around a can of Red Bull…but please don’t glasses. Voila...you celebrated Halloween before try jumping from any high places. it was cool. IF YOU WANT TO MATCH WITH SOMEONE… Kim Kardashian and Kanye West e U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team To dress up as pop culture power couple “Kimye,” ladies should wear “ e Fab 5” includes Olympic gymnasts McKayla Maroney, Kyla Ross, leopard print pants, absurdly tall high heels, a body-hugging shirt and a Alexandra Raisman, Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber. If you want to be long, dark brunette wig. Dark sunglasses and lip-plumping makeup are good modest and/or warm, dress in athletic warm up pants and a jacket to which bets as well. Kanye impersonators will need fake (or real) facial hair to cre- you’ve added a U.S. ag patch. Otherwise, rock a gymnastics leotard. For ate his goatee, and the following items to re ect his signature look: jeans, either look, fake gold medal around your neck and pull your hair back in a a white button-up shirt, a long chain necklace, white shutter shades and high ponytail or bun. Work that updo. an unbearable personality coupled with the inability to say anything intel- ligent. A microphone would be an added plus. Your costume will be the best “ e Walking Dead” cast Halloween costume of all time...of all time! What could be better inspiration for a Halloween costume than TV’s most popular show about zombies? You’ll need all the main characters, in- e presidential candidates cluding Rick (sheri ’s costume), Lori (fake pregnant belly), Hershel (white Barack mask. Mitt mask. American ag pins. Similar stances on major wig, suspenders) and Daryl (camou age, a crossbow). Other members of issues (but don’t admit it). Enough said. your group can dress up as — what else? — zombies. Everyone gets covered in fake blood, then eats each others’ faces o . ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC GILL PAGE 5-8 Basketball Preview Get your fi rst look at the new 2012 Rams before they take to the hardwood Enivronmentally friendly tailgaiting | Page 10 2 Friday, October 26, 2012 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian weekender entertainment Take a tour of CSU’s historical haunts By EMILY KRIBS JTC Capstone course project. e tour begins in the Dan- murder his wife), the building’s CATASTROPHES CSU HISTORY TOUR e Rocky Mountain Collegian Students did a lot of the research forth Chapel. e ashes of its layout makes no sense, original- and put it all together.” architect, James Hunter, are en- ly lacked stairs and, according It’s been available since last Another predecessor to the sconced in the building. to Lobermeier, “ e sta know Floods/sheet water Who: RamTrax spring, but when’s a better time tour was James E. Hansen III, “I’m not sure if he haunts it better than to stay there after events: 2 What: Mystery of CSU “a historian who’s done some or not,” Lobermeier said. 5 p.m. You can go in there, but to take the Mystery of CSU Buildings burnt to the History Tour History tour than Halloween ad hoc tours. We consulted with If he does, he keeps quiet I don’t know if you’ll come out.” ground: 3 When: Oct. 31, 5 p.m. or him,” Grant said. about it, but there are rowdier Scarier still, CSU only re- night? is tour’s got every- Ghosts: At least 6 7 p.m. thing: ghosts, free food, Bu alo While the Halloween tour ghosts to meet along the way ceived $100 to permit the train Where: e Oval Bill, a clinically insane architect, might be at capacity with stu- and a rich history extending all to pass right through campus. Cost: Free Abe Lincoln and much, much dents and youthful thrillseekers, the way to 1870 that predates Also on the tour are the Am- companied by a tour guide dis- more. the matinee tours are markedly even the university. mons building — formerly the cussing the names of various “[ is tour] features the his- di erent. e tour then makes its way site of a swimming pool and the buildings on campus, including tory of CSU, with legends and At 2 p.m. on a Tuesday af- around the Oval, expounding on current haunting ground of two Lory, Yates and Aylesworth, as if tioned free food. ghost stories along the way,” ternoon, the tour is dominated the history and mystery of CSU. possible ghosts — and Johnson they used to be people. More information can be said Jennifer Lobermeier, tour by the elderly.. ey’re not old at Of particular interest is Student Hall, claimed by Lobermeier to Also included is a presenta- found at www.RamTrax.Colos- guide and RamTrax’ assistant to heart, though. Services. Designed by architect be, “the most haunted building tion on the history of CSU, start- tate.edu. the executive director. “I’m here for the free food,” Eugene Groves, who was com- on campus.” ing with its humble beginnings Collegian Writer Emily Kribs RamTrax Director Stacy one woman says; something many mitted to an insane asylum prior So grab a friend, and pre- rooted in the Morrill Act in can be reached at entertainment@ Grant said, “ is started as a a college student can understand. to its completion (he planned to pare for some spooky stu ac- 1870, featuring the aforemen- collegian.com. The rumored haunts “Leaf experts are indeed shocked, but say that this sort of thing tends to happen every of CSU’s architcture y e a r.” By MARCUS MORITZ Student Services building and is building. “ ey said it was al- e Rocky Mountain Collegian now the Admissions building. ways drafty and cold; they would RAM TALK ... THE REST OF THE STORY But the Ammons’ rumored hear strange noises at times and Let’s pretend you are a se- haunt has stuck around through always wanted to move out.” curity guard for Ammons Hall all of its various iterations. Just Fast forward to 1948 when (what’s now the Admissions three months ago, Lee Sesker, the Student Services building Students say leaves aren’t building) a few decades ago. You head of the custodial sta for was being designed. hear an alarm go o , but instead Ammons Hall, encountered As the story goes, some- of an intruder, all that you see what he believes to be the build- thing went awry with Groves the way they used to be is a set of small, wet footprints ing’s ghost. while he was designing the Stu- leading into the other room. “We were talking about the dent Services building.