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Dylan Stansbury, 23, senior of Crawford, tries to bite an apple Friday in Andrews Hall for the Ireland stop during the Trick or Treat Around the World event. —Photo by Sara Tweet
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Halloween around the world

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CSC Students experienced a slice of cultural variety with the Trick or Treat Around the World and Pumpkin Carving event Friday night. The event celebrated Halloween from various parts of the world and participants concluded with the American tradition of Halloween with pumpkin carving in the Gold Room.

Students experienced the culturally themed events in the lobbies of High Rise, Andrews, and Kent Halls.  The Belgian

Dylan Stansbury, 23, senior of Crawford, tries to bite an apple Friday in Andrews Hall for the Ireland stop during the Trick or Treat Around the World event. —Photo by Sara Tweet
Dylan Stansbury, 23, senior of Crawford, tries to bite an apple Friday in Andrews Hall for the Ireland stop during the Trick or Treat Around the World event. —Photo by Sara Tweet

tradition of lighting candles for loved ones was the first stop in Kent Hall.

Japan’s stop, located in High Rise, had paper lanterns as decorations and an explanation of the Halloween tradition. According to Brooks Hall Resident Adviser, Analise Garland, 21, junior of Wall, South Dakota, who has been to Japan, the lanterns are left at gravestones during the event known as the “O-Bon Festival.”

Ireland was located in Andrews, where they celebrated by playing “Snap Apple.” This event involved people attempting to bite into an apple hanging off of a stick without using their hands.

Members of the Residential Life Association hosted the event to show students how Halloween is celebrated in other parts of the world.

Katie Tobin, 20, junior of Mount Kisco, New York, resident adviser in Eagle Ridge and organizer of the event, has actually never carved a pumpkin herself. Tobin was not the only one involved who had never carved a pumpkin; some students who attended also admitted to never having done it before. With that in mind, this event gave international students and others who have not had a chance to experience the American tradition an opportunity to do so.