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The Daily OrangeSCOPE cuts travel time for Halloween, brings horrors to campus
By Mollie Teeter
Posted: 10/28/09, 2:11 AM EST Section: Feature
Syracuse University's South Campus will become possessed on Friday, as it receives its biggest trick-or-treat ever.
From 7 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 30, the South Campus Organization for Programming Excellence is putting on a haunted mansion on Lambreth Lane, near the Skyhall residence halls. According to an e-mail sent by SCOPE, students will be free to wander through eight rooms filled with ghosts, ghouls and ghastly surprises. The event will be free and is open to all SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students and professors.
SCOPE puts on a Halloween-related event each year, but this will be the first haunted house. The house is an expression of SCOPE's goals as an advisory organization for South Campus.
"Our aim is to bring residents together in an attempt to make South Campus a 'home away from home,'" said Tiearra LeGrand, SCOPE president and a senior IST and African American Studies dual major. "This is a great opportunity to create this sort of unity because Halloween is a holiday that a lot of students celebrate."
The haunted mansion is going to be set up by Simplified Entertainment of Skaneateles, NY, and will be brought to life by SCOPE volunteers and SCOPE members who will transform into scary ghosts and ghouls.
The upcoming event has created a buzz around campus. Kelly McCarthy, a sophomore broadcast journalism major and South Campus resident, is looking forward to having a new way to celebrate Halloween on campus.
"It will be a nice change to be able to go somewhere other than the usual party to celebrate," said McCarthy.
Frank Sambor, sophomore accounting major, agrees that the haunted house idea is a good one, but has his doubts about the event's final turnout.
"I would go with my friends, but I don't know if it will have a big turnout or not," Sambor said. "People may just want to pregame and go out because it's Halloween."
The location may deter students on Main Campus from coming out to the event. Nicole Fattibene, a Main Campus resident and a sophomore fashion major likes SCOPE's idea, but is concerned with the inconvenience of getting to South Campus.
From 7 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 30, the South Campus Organization for Programming Excellence is putting on a haunted mansion on Lambreth Lane, near the Skyhall residence halls. According to an e-mail sent by SCOPE, students will be free to wander through eight rooms filled with ghosts, ghouls and ghastly surprises. The event will be free and is open to all SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students and professors.
SCOPE puts on a Halloween-related event each year, but this will be the first haunted house. The house is an expression of SCOPE's goals as an advisory organization for South Campus.
"Our aim is to bring residents together in an attempt to make South Campus a 'home away from home,'" said Tiearra LeGrand, SCOPE president and a senior IST and African American Studies dual major. "This is a great opportunity to create this sort of unity because Halloween is a holiday that a lot of students celebrate."
The haunted mansion is going to be set up by Simplified Entertainment of Skaneateles, NY, and will be brought to life by SCOPE volunteers and SCOPE members who will transform into scary ghosts and ghouls.
The upcoming event has created a buzz around campus. Kelly McCarthy, a sophomore broadcast journalism major and South Campus resident, is looking forward to having a new way to celebrate Halloween on campus.
"It will be a nice change to be able to go somewhere other than the usual party to celebrate," said McCarthy.
Frank Sambor, sophomore accounting major, agrees that the haunted house idea is a good one, but has his doubts about the event's final turnout.
"I would go with my friends, but I don't know if it will have a big turnout or not," Sambor said. "People may just want to pregame and go out because it's Halloween."
The location may deter students on Main Campus from coming out to the event. Nicole Fattibene, a Main Campus resident and a sophomore fashion major likes SCOPE's idea, but is concerned with the inconvenience of getting to South Campus.
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