2008 Woodie Awards
ABE haunted house provides thrills and chills for students, kids
By Andrea Thyrring
Issue date: 11/6/08 Section: Features
Each year, the College has its fair share of students celebrating Halloween. The residence halls take part in holiday celebrations with decorations and costume parties. This year, sophomore residence halls Allen, Brewster and Ely (ABE) hosted the annual Halloween event, "Haunted ABE," transforming the basement into a fright-fest Friday night.
In an effort to share the Halloween spirit, children from Rowan Towers in Trenton came to campus to celebrate the holiday. Their first stop of the night was Haunted ABE. "It's rewarding to work with underprivileged children and to see the joy they got out of Haunted ABE," Matt Davis, sophomore accounting major, said. "On (the) day that most children take for granted, these kids would have had it pass them by. We got to give them a great night."
Haunted ABE also gave the children a great fright.
"The kids from Rowan Towers would walk through and get scared - they would not let go of you," Andrea Gomez, sophomore psychology major, said.
There was a suggested donation of $1 to enter the haunted house, which will be used to buy the children from Rowan Towers presents for the upcoming holidays. This year's event raised triple the amount raised this time last year.
Following the children's walkthrough, Haunted ABE closed to revamp the scenery to better suit College thrill-seekers.
"I was terrified and almost peed my pants," Davis said. "I couldn't believe that my peers had done such a great job, and it was the same haunted house I walked through with the little kids."
Allen Hall's basement was decorated and run by the Institute of Management Accounting Student Chapter. The Residence Hall Association ran the popular "Blood Café" room, and Delta Sigma Pi took over the laundry room, handing out candy and scares alike.
According to Gomez, a volunteer at the Blood Café, the hardest part of setting up the haunted house was buying the supplies.
"We had to get everything beforehand," she said. "We had to hang everything up and darken the room with heavy tablecloths. It was a lot of work."
"The Blood Café was pretty cool," Rachel Razza, sophomore art elementary education major, said. "It was the scariest part. It had a lot of special effects and was a great ending - like the finale to the whole haunted house."
Overall, Razza said, this year's Haunted ABE "went very well."
In an effort to share the Halloween spirit, children from Rowan Towers in Trenton came to campus to celebrate the holiday. Their first stop of the night was Haunted ABE. "It's rewarding to work with underprivileged children and to see the joy they got out of Haunted ABE," Matt Davis, sophomore accounting major, said. "On (the) day that most children take for granted, these kids would have had it pass them by. We got to give them a great night."
Haunted ABE also gave the children a great fright.
"The kids from Rowan Towers would walk through and get scared - they would not let go of you," Andrea Gomez, sophomore psychology major, said.
There was a suggested donation of $1 to enter the haunted house, which will be used to buy the children from Rowan Towers presents for the upcoming holidays. This year's event raised triple the amount raised this time last year.
Following the children's walkthrough, Haunted ABE closed to revamp the scenery to better suit College thrill-seekers.
"I was terrified and almost peed my pants," Davis said. "I couldn't believe that my peers had done such a great job, and it was the same haunted house I walked through with the little kids."
Allen Hall's basement was decorated and run by the Institute of Management Accounting Student Chapter. The Residence Hall Association ran the popular "Blood Café" room, and Delta Sigma Pi took over the laundry room, handing out candy and scares alike.
According to Gomez, a volunteer at the Blood Café, the hardest part of setting up the haunted house was buying the supplies.
"We had to get everything beforehand," she said. "We had to hang everything up and darken the room with heavy tablecloths. It was a lot of work."
"The Blood Café was pretty cool," Rachel Razza, sophomore art elementary education major, said. "It was the scariest part. It had a lot of special effects and was a great ending - like the finale to the whole haunted house."
Overall, Razza said, this year's Haunted ABE "went very well."
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