The University of Idaho Argonaut

Halloween has its traditions both on campus and on the Palouse.
While college students prepare their plans to celebrate Halloween, children buy costumes and get ready to go trick-or-treating.
Greek houses have also been taking this holiday seriously, with each house having its own tradition. 

“The tradition at (Kappa Delta) is that girls usually buy or make their costumes and then we have a formal dinner the night of Halloween,” said Lisa Heuvel, president of Kappa Delta.
After dinner, the women go to parties at other houses, while others go around the Palouse.
Sometimes they carve pumpkins with the other houses. 
The tradition in Alpha Gamma Delta is a little different.
These women go to the Palouse as a house, but they also carve pumpkins with other sororities or fraternities.
However, the women said they can’t put a lot of time into preparing for Halloween because they need to prepare for initiation week, which is the following week.
But even then they look forward to pranks and costumes.
“I watch scary movies with the other members sometimes,” said Kristen Wight, president of Alpah Gamma Delta.
Resident halls usually have events within their halls and then they join the other halls for events.
Students in the Global Village said they have a costume night and carve pumpkins.
For the day of Halloween, they go out to the Tower halls where people come in costumes to scare the children and pass out candy.
They also join the other halls in decorating cookies.
Families also take part in celebrating Halloween.
Children like 6-year-old Norea Graff are excited to go to the Tower Trick or Treating.
“I am going to be a fancy witch,” she said.
Graff said she is planning to go trick-or-treating with her father downtown, then to a party with her mother.
UI Chemistry professor Daniel Stelck said he prefers to stay home and celebrate the holiday by watching a movie.
While some enjoy a scary movie or two on Halloween, others avoid them.
“We do not watch scary movies,” he said. “Why subject a child to images that will give them nightmares and possibly scar them
mentally?”