<p>It's Halloween weekend and, well, everyone knows what that means. Emergency rooms in college towns everywhere will be prepping for waves of alcohol poisoning, and RAs will be touting alcohol awareness and on the lookout for pranksters. </p>
<p>Every school seems to have their own set of Halloween traditions...</p>
<p>At Scripps College, we just had a candlelight dinner and costume contest. My table companions included Rachel Maddow, a honey badger, a penguin, a lumberjack and an existential crisis. On Saturday, Hocus Pocus will be showing on the lawn, and on Monday our librarian will be telling Scripps ghost stories. </p>
<p>Across the street at Harvey Mudd, the students will be hosting Trick or Drink, an entire event predicated on the idea of taking drinks from strangers and not asking what's in them. </p>
<p>And yet another member of the Claremont consortium, Pomona College, will be hosting a free late-night food festival after their annual Halloween dance party on Saturday. </p>
<p>What kind of traditions and/or shenanigans exist at your school?</p>
<p>Getting plastered and wandering downtown in a drunken horde with 500 other undergraduates</p>
<p>Yeah my school (Michigan State) has a bunch of events but really, the large majority of students just get plastered at various locales. I guess we always have a Rocky Horror Picture Show interactive movie event around this time with a costume contest, our campus cinemas plays halloween themed movies, and we have some sort of concert act (this year it’s Matt Corey, a DJ/saxaphone player dude). We don’t have organized drinking events on campus for obvious reasons (they aren’t allowed except for football tailgating, 47,000 students go to my school etc.). Our tradition is drinking, Thursday thru Saturday, maybe Sunday, and definitely Monday. Frat houses throw the more wild parties because they are all sponsored by various energy drinks and alcohols and party companies, and there are house and apartment parties everywhere (even dorm parties). Halloween is crazy enough at my school that we don’t need any organized events persay. We have some other cool party traditions like Nachofest and Cedarfest (but those are on other days, of course).</p>
<p>@cahzriel: a commendable and time-honored tradition, indeed.</p>
<p>We have a tradition of drinking!</p>