With the carved pumpkins and costumes flying off store shelves, this can only mean one thing. A night like no other is inching ever closer, one that many people look forward to every year, beneath the waning crescent moon. This is Halloween for everyone, regardless of age. 

Halloween on college campuses is like no other place across the country. Halloween parties and get-togethers howl around campus like werewolves howling at the moon. There are those people who don’t enjoy Halloween as much, spending their night in the crypts of the Underworld. 

Vincent Giasullo, a senior political science major, seemed to have grown out of the holiday. 

“I don’t care much for Halloween to be really honest,” Giasullo said. “If I was to do anything I would go out to the bar with some friends.” 

Vincent brings up a point, Halloween isn’t for everyone and that’s okay since some people may not even be able to celebrate it due to school work, classes, or even jobs getting in the way of all the spooky festivities. 

Fraternities and sororities are planning their own Halloween parties and events, and all around Rowan’s campus, there are events such as the “Spooky Suare” on the second floor of Savitz Hall during Halloween Night. 

And if you can’t go to this, Joshua Contreras, a junior humanities and social science major, expresses his plans for this year and how he has been celebrating for the past couple of years.

“I would typically go home, dress in a costume, and serve candy to tricker treaters,” Contreras explains. “However since I cannot go home this time I plan to spend this Halloween on watching my favorite Halloween movie ‘Halloween Kills’ (2021) while enjoying a good meal with candy and drinks.” 

Watching Halloween movies is one of the most popular ways for students to celebrate Halloween if they are unable to go celebrate. If you’re looking for something new, the movies are waiting for you. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” was released on Sept. 6 of last month, and “Smile 2” was released just last week on Oct. 18. 

Jacob Sukoff, a junior sports communications major, is among the many people who enjoy watching horror movies as Halloween movies. 

“I celebrate casually with friends or family,” Sukoff said. “I watch Halloween movies by myself or with friends. My favorite one has to be Friday the 13th.” 

Knowing students should be weary, they still look for something scary. Ghosts, frights, and happy haunts turn Rowan University into a huge Halloween campus. Everyone enjoys a good scare, even when they least expect it. Everyone is welcome into the spookiest holiday of all and prepares for all the excitement coming their way. Enter if you dare, you’re in for a super fun scare.

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