RLA attempts to tell future

Members of the Residence Life Association demonstrated different forms of divination for students at a fortune telling event in The Hub from 7-9 p.m. Friday.
In honor of the Halloween season, members of the RLA put their fortune telling talents to use for around 30 students who filtered in and out during the event.
The different forms of fortune telling included palm reading, tarot cards, rune casting, and tea leaf reading, as well as a looped television slideshow of predictions for the signs of the Greek Zodiac.
“It’s definitely very unique,” RLA representative and one of the palm readers, Barbara Pieper, 19, sophomore of Mitchell, said.
Some of the fortune tellers have practiced their talent for months or years, such as one palm reader who learned from a family member as a child and has spent years perfecting her techniques. Others had been working on their talents for a few days in preparation for the fortune telling event.
Fortune tellers at the event practiced different forms of fortune telling as well as discussing the history, cultural origins, their practices and how the predictions are translated.
The RLA provided drinks and snacks—including dozens of fortune cookies—for the event. The hosts also gave out door prizes at intervals to various guests.
The prizes included a set of tarot cards and runes, as well as books on reading tea leaves, a dream dictionary, candy, soda, a body pillow, DVDs, a coffee mug, a hamper, and a hand-held vacuum cleaner.