By Chin Yi Oh | Echo
Students Activities Council (SAC) and Samuel Morris Hall will team up for a fun and horror-filled night on Halloween. SAC will organize a fall fest while Foundations, the Brotherhood (Broho) and Penthouse have acclaimed open houses.
On Halloween, the fall fest is designed for people to enjoy themselves while waiting to go through the open houses, in order to reduce the crowds inside the building. Various activities will be spread across Sammy's back lawn from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday.
"There will be some Halloween elements, but that's not the focus; the focus is more of a celebration of fall," senior Brooke McKenzie, president of SAC, said. "It's a nice segway into the season as a whole, and for people who don't necessarily like Halloween, it's a good outlet and different things to do."
The fall fest will consist of different stations spread across the lawn, from food, painting mini pumpkins, screening of the "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and an inflatable corn maze. Different lawn games included in the fall fest are a pumpkin ring toss and a pumpkin tic-tac-toe.
Broho will have a zombie open house which includes everything zombie themed, from zombie video games to a zombie apocalypse. As each group goes through the hall armed with Nerf guns, zombies will attack and the only way to kill them is with Nerf bullets.
"The whole point of the thing is that you don't know the story going into it, kind (of) like watching a movie where you don't know how it is going to end," Broho's PA junior Adam Hursey said. "It will be a different story, with a kind (of) similar feel with the zombies, but there will be a lot more twist in the story than there was last year."
According to Foundations' PA senior Zach Moore, their annual scary maze in the basement will be based on the movie "IT," with some cool things lined up which will make it different than previous years. There will also be games and food in the lobby, along with two escape rooms with the theme of the Great Pumpkin.
There will be a booth in Foundations' lobby to sign up, which will put your group in line for all three open houses. The open houses will be from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. with the cut off point for the lines at 10:30 p.m.
"I think it's a really fun time to just come and hang out with your friends, get some good food and play some games," SAC cabinet member and sophomore Ethan Rice said. "A way to get connected with the community and people that you might not otherwise be spending time with, especially to appreciate all the hard work that the floors put into planning the activities as well as SAC."
Senior Christine East, who has been on SAC since her sophomore year, said Taylor students should go because it's going to be the perfect transition into fall and there will be nothing better than going to the fall fest while waiting in line for the open houses.
Hursey thinks it will be fun to get people all the way to Sammy and hang out outside with SAC, then come inside and do the different open houses.
"(SAC) cabinet's goal is to always create spaces where we can celebrate life and create a stage for people to create memories," McKenzie said. "I want people to have peace and joy, which is often overlooked in college with academia."
Moore really appreciates SAC approaching them with the idea of partnering. He hopes that with the fall fest, people won't be standing around and it will be more interactive.
All activities and games during the fall fest and the open houses are free of charge.
"Be there or be square," East said.
