UW, district tykes trick-or-treat
October 30, 2003
Bees, wizards and a whole jungle of animals invaded the UW last night for Halloween activities.
The Student Activities Office (SAO) and the Panhellenic Association teamed up this year to spread holiday cheer to the UW, combining the annual sorority Community Trick-or-Treat with the UW's Family Day.
According to Jennifer Kiest, student activities adviser, Family Day is a free event for children of students, staff and faculty.
"It's great to have a free evening of fun and entertainment where people can meet as a UW community," said Kiest.
However, kids who didn't bring costumes weren't left out, and face painting was available.
Featured at this year's Family Day was a showing of Monkey and Other Tales, performed by the Northwest Puppet Center, as well as arts and crafts, a magician, a balloon artist and a variety of games for children.
According to CJ Ingebritsen, 5, his favorite part was a sword fight with a wizard and a dog.
Ingebritsen's mom, Christine, a professor of Scandinavian said she started coming to Family Day last summer. She and her two children had so much fun they decided to come again.
Since 1990, Family Day has been held in spring, said Kiest, but this year, the event was changed to fall in order for the SAO to include other student groups in planning the event.
"We got in touch with a lot of groups on campus to see if we could make this more of a UW community event," said Kiest. "Panhellenic had a similar activity for this time of year so we decided it would be a good idea to work together."
Even the HUB games area was given a Halloween spin as costumed kid hurled pumpkins down rough-and-ready bowling lanes.
At 6:30 p.m., UW sorority women led children to their Community Trick-or-Treat on 17th Avenue Northeast. Coinciding with Family Day events, sororities on that block opened their doors for their own night of tricks and treats.
Women at all 16 sorority houses teamed up to decorate rooms, hand out candy and make Halloween games for children.
Michelle Wells, Panhellenic adviser, said that the Halloween trick-or-treat tradition has been around as long as she can remember -- for at least the past 10 years.
"This is a way for us to open up the chapter houses to the community," said Wells, "and it's a lot of fun."
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