Students decide: When does SU celebrate Halloween this year?

This October is offering the students on campus quite the predicament, or maybe it’s just me. I have no idea when to celebrate Halloween. And frankly, it’s stressing me out.

Halloween this year falls on a Wednesday, and I clearly will be celebrating that night down at Faegan’s Cafe & Pub or Chuck’s Cafe, but what weekend should I celebrate it: the weekend before or the weekend after All Hallows’ Eve? College students are not satisfied with just one night of Halloween; we need multiple. Each weekend has valid arguments to host the celebrations, but it is hard to choose.

The weekend before is in October, which feels right, but dressing up a full four or five days in advance does not. The weekend after Halloween is closer to the date, but it’s in November. At that point I am thinking about Thanksgiving; maybe I’ll dress up as a turkey one night.

This dilemma has been taking up way too much of my time, probably resulting in several poor midterm grades, and I need help figuring it out before I have to repeat my senior year. More importantly, I have a party and costumes to plan. I need to know soon. So I ask The Daily Orange and my fellow students to help me figure this out. Which weekend should we all celebrate?

 My vote is both weekends.

Kevin Hennigan

Environmental resource engineering major

State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Class of 2013