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Sunday, Nov. 2

Matinee: Contemporary Dance Oklahoma | 3 p.m. at Reynolds Performing Arts Center. Watch this matinee performance of Contemporary Dance Oklahoma. Rated PG-13.

Saturday, Nov. 1

Wrestling vs OCU/Baker/Shorter College | 9 a.m. at Lloyd Noble Center. Come check out the wrestling team as they kick off their season at the LNC hosting OCU, Baker, and Shorter College! It’s an early morning start but don’t let that stop you from coming by!

Volleyball vs West Virginia | 7 p.m. at McCasland Field House. The OU Volleyball Team looks to continue a perfect 8-0 start at home this season! With no football in town come pack McCasland and cheer the Sooners on to another victory!

Football at Iowa State Watch Party | TBA at Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Cheer on the Sooners at this FREE watch party, as they take on another Big 12 opponent. Presented by the Union Programming Board, there’s ALWAYS SOMETHING with UPB, upb.ou.edu.

Thursday, Oct. 30

Student Success Series: Finding Academic Motivation | 4:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 250. Feeling burnout this late in the semester? Casey Partridge from the Graduation Office will help you find your academic motivation. This free workshop is a part of the Student Success Series. For more information, please contact Student Learning Center, studentlearning@ou.edu.

FREDtalks: Creativity and the Subconscious | 5:30 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Based on the online popularity of short, informal discussions, FREDtalks are planned to engage visitors with panel speakers on different subjects related to art. In conjunction with the special exhibition, this month’s topic is on creativity and the subconscious. The capacity to be creative is one of the most important functions of the human brain. The speakers will explore the connection between the subconscious and high levels of creativity.

OU Symphony Orchestra | 8 p.m. in Sharp Concert Hall, Cattlett Music Center. Sutton Concert Series and School of Music present OU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Advance purchase tickets: $9 Adult, $5 student and discount at the door: $10.

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Friday, Oct. 31

UPB Daily Event: Guess the Score | 11:30 a.m. in the First Floor of the Union. Guess the score for this week’s game against Iowa State for your chance to win a UPB prize pack! There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING with the Union Programming Board, upb.ou.edu.

FREE Movie: ‘22 Jump Street’ | 6, 9 p.m. & Midnight at Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Watch the FREE screenings of this hilarious sequel, as the two cops have to go deep undercover at a local college, before this movie is available on DVD/Blu-ray. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Soccer vs Kansas | 7 p.m. at the OU Soccer Complex. Come out and support the Sooners in their FINAL home game of the season! It will be Senior Night, and you last chance to see several superb OU seniors!

Fuego Friday | 7 p.m. at OU School of Art & Art History’s Ceramics Facility. The OU School of Art & Art History invites you to the 9th annual Fuego Friday which will include ceramic demonstrations and kiln firing events. This event is FREE and open to the public.

Contemporary Dance Oklahoma | 8 p.m. in Reynolds Performing Arts Center. Contemporary Dance Oklahoma features Limón’s masterwork, “There Is a Time,” based on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, with its visual evocation of the human experience: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Hartel’s dynamic work, “Ashes, Ashes,” explores the power of human tenacity in the face of adversity, while his haunting “Curse of the Wilis” adds seasonal flair. Minter’s newly created work “Stitches,” explores innocence and vulnerability and pulses with the energy and passion of our talented dancers. Seize the spirit of CDO with this impressive production! Rated PG-13. Runs Oct. 24-Nov. 2.

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contentsfood truck frenzy

red door music fest

dia de los muertos

business of fear

personalize your halloween

know your candidates

Athlete to politician

featured flicks

iowa state looks ahead

pick your poisonThis semester at ESCAPE, we’ve tried to

pick a theme for each issue that encom-passes the activities going on each week-end. However, with so many activities hap-pening this weekend, we couldn’t pick just one.

In this issue, you’ll find a mix of every-thing from Halloween fun (p. 8) to a gov-ernor guide (p. 10). Who says you can’t get crazy this weekend, but also be informed about the upcoming gubernatorial race?

From food trucks (p. 4) to live music (p. 5), the weekend will be full of colorful festivals, so make sure to take a break from the mid-dle-of-semester grind and enjoy Norman and OKC’s best.

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5things to do this

weekend

what: “month upon a time”

when: 4 p.m. saturday

where: catlett music center’s pitman recital

hall

Watch Broadway veteran Jeff Blumenkrantz perform songs with members of the musical theatre senior class at a free concert.

what: day of the dead festival

when: 6 to 10 p.m. friday

where: walker adams mall

Join Latino Student Life by celebrating Day of the Dead. Experience another culture and have some free fun.

what: 7th annual fuego friday

when: 7 to 10 p.m. friday

where: Ou ceramics facility

The OU School of Art & Art History invites the public to watch ceramic demonstrations and kiln firing events. Visitors can purchase a pre-made pot they can glaze themselves by contacting Professor Stuart Asprey at stuart@ou.edu before Oct. 31.

what: sooners vs. cyclones

when: 11 a.m. saturday

where: broadcast on fs1

Head to your favorite game-watching spot to watch OU take on Iowa State in Ames, Iowa.

what: free movie

when: 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and midnight friday

where: oklahoma memorial union’s meacham

auditorium

Watch a free screening of “22 Jump Street” before it comes out on DVD, presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

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The final H&8th Night Market of the year will take place on Friday at the intersection of N Hudson Avenue and

NW 8th Street in midtown Oklahoma City. Fifty-one food trucks are scheduled to line up for the final incarnation of the festival in 2014. Things are set to kick off at 7 p.m., but if the September H&8th was any indication, the event will get going much earlier.

The big nightOn the last Friday of September crowds of people mean-

dered up and down Hudson street an hour and a half before the event was set to kick off, reading menus and chatting with vendors who were setting up their food trucks in preparation for the big night.

At Off The Hook Seafood & More, Joyce Harris was just ar-riving. Harris, who co-owns the seafood truck with her hus-band Cory, was running a little behind after picking up her kids from school.

She stopped at the cheese steak truck next door before mak-ing her way over. Off The Hook had a second window facing the neighboring truck, and Harris’ first task of the night was to ask if they would back up and give her truck some space.

“I don’t think they’re too happy about it,” Harris said. “But hey, we all got to be family. Got to work together.”

As the popularity of food trucks has grown in the Oklahoma City area, so has the sense of community that Harris mentioned.

“It’s like a fraternity,” said Glen Franklin, the owner of G’s Chili Company, about the interactions between owners in the budding industry. In September, the Oklahoma Independent Food Truck Association held its first-ever meeting.

The food truck association will serve as a sort of food truck union to keep the trucks on the same page and protect them from business owners or event holders requesting a cut of their profits, Franklin said.

A growing businessFranklin’s chili is his passion. His food truck is the most re-

cent vessel he’s used to share that passion with the public. It’s a family recipe that he once sold in grocery stores, but he was forced to stop when the economy tanked in 2008. His daugh-ters are the ones who convinced him to consider a food truck after they attended one of the first H&8th festivals.

“They came home and said, ‘Dad, you need to get a food truck,’”Franklin said.

So Franklin did, and G’s Chili made its debut at the first

H&8th of 2014.The event is now in its fourth year and has grown to draw

around 30,000 people.The constant hum of 48 mobile generators powering 48

mobile eateries combined with the music being pumped through some of the trucks’ speakers and the live perfor-mances taking place provided the soundtrack for the evening. The crowd thickened throughout the night. Long lines at the trucks created roadblocks that halted the flow of foot traffic every 40 feet.

Almost everybody walking around had some type of food in their hand, ranging from tacos to pizza to “All Natural Popsicles.”

The food truck scene in Oklahoma has exploded recently. Bleu Gartens, the first fixed food truck park in Oklahoma City, opened the night before the September H&8th. As the festi-val’s season ends on Friday and the weather turns colder, Bleu Gartens will provide a location where folks can continue to get their food truck fix through the winter.

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FOOD TRUCK FRENZYFifty-one mobile eateries will gather this weekend

in OKC for the last time this year

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Taco Loco sits in a parking lot on 24th street near Highway 9. Food trucks like this one will gather this Friday in Oklahoma City for the final H&8th Night Market of the year.

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The Red Doors of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house are more than just a color to accent the tall white col-umns and window frames. Members all around the

nation recognize these doors as a symbol for acceptance.“The red doors are there to remind us that everyone is

welcome,” Reid Corbin, professional writing junior, said. “It’s our way to show that we’re trying to love our communi-ty and the world through our fraternity.”

Using his passions for philanthropy, music and the tradi-tions of the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter, Corbin proposed the idea of a philanthropic event to the rest of his brothers. What began as a project in the works then blossomed into Sigma Phi Epsilon’s first annual Red Door Music Festival.

Hosted by the members of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the festival will begin at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Sigma Phi Epsilon park-ing lot at 701 College Ave.

Seven bands and several food trucks later, the music festival was set in stone. The acts performing will range from an OU student singer/songwriter to bands who have just graced the stages of Austin City Limits, including the indie folk duo Penny and Sparrow.

Instead of using money for a date party in the Spring, the fraternity members agreed to toss it all into a hat for a night of tunes. All of the proceeds from the event will benefit Living Water International, a faith-based non-profit organization that works to provide clean water sources for by using funds to build well sites in develop-ing communities.

Max Tackett, marketing senior and Sigma Phi Epsilon member, said the symbol of the red doors pairs well with the goal for this event that is open to OU students and community members alike.

“We just want to help benefit those who can’t provide for themselves,” Tackett said.

Tackett was first introduced to the organization through a smaller project known as “The Ten Days.” For 10 days par-ticipants pledge to give up the soda and coffee and only drink water. Then, saving the money they would have used

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Professional writing junior Reid Corbin stands in front of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house’s red doors Tuesday afternoon. The red doors are meant to symbolize acceptance and serve as inspiration in the frater-nity’s upcoming music festival philanthropy.

A fraternity combines music, philanthropy and tradition into a community event

for other drinks, they collect their spare bucks to donate to the clean water initiative.

Ryan Mahon, advertising junior and VP of productions for the event, partnered with Reid to make their big idea a re-ality. Mahon said their connec-tion with LWI as an organization sprouted from a simple drive to give, but was motivated by the previous successes they’ve seen in their fundraising efforts.

Tackett said the fraternity has raised money for Living Water in the past, reaching $3,500. This year, the group hopes to raise more than twice that amount.

“I feel like a lot of times you don’t see the results from giving or donating,” Mahon said. “But with Living Water you can actu-ally see how it’s changing lives and making a difference for these people.”

According to Lw’s website, 14,352 water projects have been completed, spanning four continents. The projects can be tracked on their interactive map, where project par-ticipants can see where the wells are being built.

Reid and Mahon said they quickly found that the idea of organizing a big event is easier said than done, but they kept their ultimate philanthropy goal in mind to keep them going.

With event planning comes stress, and Mahon said there were times when things felt impossible, but the overall pro-cess has been one of trial and error. The planning began in early February for Ried after the members voted in favor of a music festival.

“We’ve failed, succeeded and learned all over,” Mahon said. “But all at once, everything kind of started taking off.”

Mahon said festival-goers can expect a fun, music-filled atmosphere complete with local food and drink vendors.

But aside from the entertainment, event organizers said they are most excited to spread global awareness through the event and help those in need.

“We really want to fire people up with great music and show them that they can make a difference,” Reid said.

Tickets will be available upon entry to the event, or can be purchased from a Sigma Phi Epsilon member ahead of time. Student tickets are $10 and non-student tickets are $15. Tickets can also be purchased online at ticketstorm.com.

GO AND DORed Door Music Festival

When: 4 p.m. Saturday

Where: Sigma Phi Epsilon parking lot, 701 College Ave.

Price: $10 for students, $15 for non-students

Info: Tickets can be purchased online at ticketstorm.com

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there to remind us

that everyone is

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The Walker-Adams Mall might look a little rowdier than usual Friday night.

Latino Student Life is putting on a Day of the Dead Street Festival, complete with face-painting, rock-climbing, a Ferris wheel, sugar skulls, live music and plenty of food.

Cultural significance makes the Day of the Dead special to Mayra Garcia, a social studies education sophomore. Because Day of the Dead is about celebrating the lives of loved ones who have died, Garcia and her family get together each year at the end of October to honor her grandmother’s memory.

“We do that for my grandma on my mom’s side in Mexico, so every Day of the Dead, we all get together and go eat together, and we have her picture with the flowers and the candles, and we set food out for her,” Garcia said. “It’s definitely a happy tradition, and it’s about celebrating a person who has passed away.”

Plans for this year’s third annual Day of the Dead festival have been in the works since last spring, said Daisy Ramirez, Day of the Dead chair for Latino Student Life. This year’s festival will be the “biggest one yet,” Ramirez said.

“It’s a festival that brings the Latino culture to campus, and it kind of shows and invites

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said. “What we’re trying to do with this event is really trying to expose our culture — bright colors, good music, fun stuff.”

Admission to the event will be free, and carnival and traditional Hispanic food will be available for purchase with either cash or credit cards, according to the festival’s Facebook event. An ATM available at the event can provide money for cash-only com-modities, like the face painting or edible sugar skulls offered.

After promoting the festival on Twitter and spreading publicity by distributing free shirts during the week, Ramirez thinks people are looking forward to the event, she said.

“At first I was a little insecure about it, but now I’ve heard so many people talking about it, and they’re really interested,” Ramirez said.

Garcia hoped Day of the Dead would be a good chance to get the OU community in-volved in Latino culture, she said.

“I really think it’s great that the University of Oklahoma gives us this opportunity to bring such a diverse event to the OU community, and it really lets the Hispanic community represent itself,” Garcia said. “I really like to combine my home life and my culture with the school I go to, so that’s really great.”

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Children paint sugar skulls at last year’s Day of the Dead Street Festival. The event had many activities for kids that allowed them to have fun while learning about Hispanic Culture.

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Latino Student Life will host the event today on the Walker-Adams Mall

the whole community to get a little taste of what we do and our traditions,” said Ramirez, a business manager sophomore. “My biggest goal is to make this event something that the whole community can enjoy.”

This year, economics sophomore Daniel Rangel is in charge of bringing various per-formers and musicians to the festival. He said his goal was to bring local art-ists such as local rapper L.T.Z. and Spanish rock band Tequila Azul to perform.

“I kind of saw this as an oppor-tunity to give local bands a chance,” R a n g e l s a i d . “Pretty much all the entertainers w e brought are local entertainers, and we brought them because we want to give them a chance and be-cause they’re good. They’re talented.”

In addition to the musicians performing, Rangel said the festival will feature traditional Latino dancers.

“We have a mariachi band to open up, and we have traditional folk dancers from Mexico — with the big dresses, very colorful,” Rangel

“My biggest goal

is to make this

event something

that the whole

community can

enjoy.”

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Day of the Dead

chair for Latino

Student Life

Running a haunted attraction can be a scary affair.It isn’t just the dark corridors, disembodied voic-

es and dripping blood a haunt owner like Bob Wright has to worry about when he shows up to work at night. It’s actual-ly fire codes, employee training and industry standards that keep him busy at work and awake far beyond the witching hour.

Wright’s foray into the business of scaring people started in college when he worked at a Halloween store. His father, Bob Wright Sr., was a science teacher looking for a way to raise money to open a science discovery center.

“Dad saw how much money the Halloween store pulled in,” Wright Jr. said. “He came home one day, slapped a packet down on the table in front of me and asked me if I liked work-ing at the Halloween store. When I said I did, he said that was good, because he’d just bought 40 acres to build a haunted house.”

The center never happened, but a haunted house sure did.Wright now owns Trail of Fear, a haunted attraction in

Lawton, Oklahoma, that boasts over 100 employees, securi-ty staff, medical personnel and makeup artists. He splits his time between this location, where he still works with his fa-ther, and his newest haunt, the Thunderbird Trail of Fear in

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Noble, Oklahoma.Wright’s work doesn’t just start in October. Creating and

running a “scream park” rated in the top 31 haunts in the United States by hauntworld.com is a year-round effort.

The minute Wright closes the doors of his haunts at the end of October, he gets together with his staff to brush up on the “psychology of fear,” as Wright described it, and brainstorm new ways to make people cringe, shiver and scream.

“I’m a fairly creative person, but we have a team of people who are way more creative, and we throw out ideas during the off-season,” Wright said.

Wright gets even busier in March, when haunted house conventions start cropping up around the country. These meetings, with names like “HauntCon” and “The Darkness,” are gather-ings of haunted house and Halloween store owners who get together to talk shop, buy a few new gadgets for their haunts and check out the direction the industry is going that year.

Wright uses these convention trips to see what’s going to be popular at haunted houses in the upcoming year.

As soon as he gets back from these creepy conventions, his physical work on the Trail of Fear begins. Repairs have to be made on props and buildings to make sure everything is safe and working properly. New structures will be built, and new horrifying storylines will be writ-ten to give them character. Then actors have to be hired (or rehired) and prepared for the tiring task of scaring the pants off visitors.

As would be expected, however, October is when Wright really shines.

Wright’s evenings at Trail of Fear are chaot-ic, to say the least. Visitors who see him string-ing glowing green Christmas lights at the snack stand — named the “Gut Hut” — could blink and miss him jogging across the complex to help erect the tent that will house a magic show later in the evening.

They might see him sneak through the back entrance of the trail with an armful of battery-operated candles to make an already-eerie scene dance with flickering yellow light.

They might see him standing on a dirt path, away from the peering eyes of guests, discussing chainsaw allocation.

“Now, if Dustin can bring both of his chainsaws, I want you two to have them tonight,” Wright says to an employee.

Professional scaring comes with some unique challenges

“You’re in a small room, though … you probably shouldn’t use the gas-operated chainsaw.”

He may be dealing with any number of problems that can arise on a scarcely lit trail that takes 35 minutes to walk (or run). He delivers water to actors who have knocked theirs over in an attempt to make a guest howl; he gets into costume if enough employees can’t make it; he walks the path each night to make sure there’s nothing within guests’ reach that could injure them and is on hand with his medical staff in case anything unexpected happens.

“Something will go wrong every night,” Elizabeth Achemire, a manager at the Noble location, said. “It may be something

small, but in a place like this Bob will always be fixing something right before we open.”

Achemire said Wright is always stretching himself thin when it comes to the Trail of Fear.

“I don’t know how he does it,” Achemire, who lives on the premises at the Noble location, said. “He’s always running from the Lawton location to Noble, and he works in Oklahoma City. But he’ll always take time to try to help you out, help you finish whatever you’re doing.”

This is probably because, for Wright, Trail of Fear has always been a family affair, from his fa-ther to his fan base.

“We’re performers, and people with perfor-mance backgrounds will understand that when you perform with each other, you become a family,” Wright said.

He is proud to boast that 60 to 70 percent of his employees return every year, and he loves when kids who have been attending Trail of Fear since middle school are finally old enough to don the fake blood themselves.

“We have an actual family who works here — father, mother, all six kids,” Wright said. “All of the kids got their first paycheck from me. That’s pretty special.”

“I can’t take credit for the quality, because we wouldn’t be here without the volunteers,” he said. “They’re the ones bust-ing their rears acting and putting stuff together. I have a lot to do as the owner, but it’s those people who make us who we are.”

Wright said he’s always happy to humbly accept a good word from a guest, or hear a suggestion for something he can improve next year.

That is, if you can catch him.

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If you only go to one haunted house this year, make it The Sanctuary. Considered one of the best horror attractions in the state, The Sanctuary is a highly detailed and highly horrifying haunted attraction. With over four stories to walk through and scares hiding be-hind every corner, The Sanctuary puts you right in the mid-dle of a living, breathing, slasher flick.

For more information, visit The Sanctuary website.

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Over the years, Halloween has become synony-mous with candy, wacky costumes and a cer-

tain degree of mischief. It’s fun and carefree, a time to watch scary movies and coordinate group costumes with your friends. But let’s not forget what Halloween is about once you get past all of the latex masks and candy: frights.

From zombies and ghosts to haunted houses and corn mazes, it’s the time of the year to embrace your inner darkness and get the bejeezus scared out of you in the process.

And luckily, Oklahoma is far from empty when it comes to entertaining Halloween destinations. To make sure you don’t get stuck going out trick-or-treat-ing with your younger sibling, here are some of the best events for a frightening good time this Halloween.

Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror flick “Evil Dead” is delightfully weird, spooky and surreal — it makes sense it would be adapted into a musical. The production tells the story of five col-lege kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that leads to bloody mayhem. It may sound like heavy stuff, but with campy musical numbers and hilariously tongue-in-cheek humor, “Evil Dead: The Musical” is bloody and vio-lent with just the right amount of fun.

Tip: One hour before showtime, Splatter Zone seats go on sale that let you be a part of the show in the first two rows by getting sprayed with gallons of fake blood. Just make sure to dress appropriately.

For more information, visit the Pollard Theatre website.

If “Evil Dead” is a little too low-brow for your taste, get your fix of high-brow horror with the Reduxion Theatre Company’s production of Sweeney Todd. Based on Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Broadway musical, Sweeney Todd tells the story of a murderous barber who returns to London 15 years after he is falsely accused of a crime to take revenge on the judge who banished him. It’s stylish, clever and ab-solutely bonkers.

For more in-formation, visit the Reduxion Theatre Company website.

I can’t be the only person who comes out of a scary movie and thinks, “How cool would it be if my life were a horror movie? Just without, you know, actual death.” And if you’re as twisted as I am, you’re in luck. The Dinner Detective stages sold-out shows across the country, and now you can become a part of the interac-tive murder mys-tery involving a four-course meal, dinner show and equally hilarious and horrifying mys-tery to be solved.

For more information, visit the Dinner Detective website.

EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

THE DINNER DETECTIVE:MURDER MYSTERY

DINNER SHOW

THE SANCTUARY

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Today is Halloween, and for many people, that means dressing up as relevant pop-culture figures

and celebrating with friends at parties or sitting at home cuddling with a significant other and passing out candy to small children. Some people, however, prefer to spend their Halloween alone, and we think even loners can make Halloween scary fun. Here are a few ways to make the spooky night entertaining while alone.

Prepare for the night by getting dressed in your best “I barely survived midterms and I’m giving up” costume*. This can be whatever you wish, just make sure your garments are shapeless, comfortable and prime for mara-thon couch-sitting.

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Stop by the store on the way home and buy a bag of your favorite fun-size (or not so fun-size) candy. After getting into your “costume,” binge eat. No one is watching, and Reese’s pumpkins are more fun than parties anyway.

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Catch up on homework! Oh, did I say home-work? I meant to say Hulu. Get festive and have an “American Horror Story” marathon or tap into your dead childhood and watch “Hocus Pocus” for the millionth time.

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Make a jack-o’-lantern. Not only will you have a friend who is just glowing at being in your presence but also a great way to get rid of pent up frus-trations by cutting up and gutting a pumpkin.

Make some of those adorable Halloween treats that are actually for children from Pinterest. Who needs friends when you have mummy hot dogs, cupcakes topped with ice cream cone witches’ hats and Halloween-themed bark?

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Have your own “Monster Mash.” Blast the Halloween classics in your barren living room and dance until you drop (if the sugar doesn’t get you first).

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If you are of age, tap into your inner mixolo-gist and make some spooky cocktails. Try a Candy Corn Martini, a Witches’ Brew or even the disgustingly-named-deliciously-made Embalming Fluid. The best part? You don’t have to share!

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Try to set a personal record for how many candy corns you can toss into your mouth.8.

Grab your phone and live vicariously through your Instagram feed. People with social lives will be dressed in their Halloween best and, if you get lucky, posting regrettable Halloween snapshots.

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Lastly, go to bed knowing you are awesome and it doesn’t matter how you spent your Halloween. Plus, you definitely won the cos-tume contest.

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Whether you’re hanging with friends as a group or going solo on the spooky holiday, we’ve got something to help make this Halloween weekend the spookiest one yet. *Pants not required

Where: The Pollard

Theatre at 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie,

OK. When: Various showtimes

through Nov. 1.Price: Student — $16.25,

Regular — $27.25Where:

Reduxion Theatre at 914 N.

Broadway Ave., Suite 120 in Oklahoma City, OK.When: Various showtimes

through Nov. 15.Price: $23

Where: Sheraton

Hotel, 1 N. Broadway Ave.,

Oklahoma City, OK.When: Oct. 31Price: $59.95

Where: The Sanctuary

at 530 S. Broadway Ave in Oklahoma City,

OK.When: Various times

through Nov. 2Price: $20

Tip: One hour before showtime, Splatter Zone

formation, visit the Reduxion Theatre Company website.

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BackgroundDorman said he

d e c i d e d t o d e d i -cate his life to public service after paging

for the State Senate during high school.

After high school, D o r m a n a t t e n d -ed Oklahoma State University and graduat-

ed with a bachelor’s de-gree in political science, he said.

Dorman said he was active in politics at OSU. He was the chairperson of the OSU Student Senate and worked with the Student Lobby Force to keep tuition rates from increasing and represent the views and needs of the students.

His experience in college led to him working on several campaigns in 1994, eventually meeting the Speaker of the House at that time, Dorman said.

“He told me I should apply for a job at the Capitol,” Dorman said. “My first job there was working in the mailroom of the House of Representatives.”

Dorman worked his way up through the career ladder in the House of Representatives before re-signing in 2002 to pursue a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, according to Dorman’s campaign website.

After working in the Oklahoma House of Representatives for 12 years, Representative Dorman decided to run for Oklahoma governor against the current republican governor, Mary Fallin.

How Dorman plans to affect college studentsFor college students, Dorman said he wants to

improve legislation that grants loan forgiveness for students who are Aerospace Engineers.

“If [Oklahoma college] graduates agree to re-main in-state, we will work in certain fields of critical need across the state to help with loan forgiveness,” Dorman said.

Dorman said he is looking out for future edu-cators, promising to work for reasonable wages for teachers, at least the regional average, and promising to veto any legislation that would af-fect teacher retirement benefits.

Higher education funding is also on Dorman’s to-do list, an issue that he and OU President David Boren share.

“We’ve seen $100 million cut out of higher education,” Dorman said, “when [OU President David Boren] was in the State Senate, the state of Oklahoma covered about half the costs of stu-dents to go to college.”

Twenty years ago, when Boren became pres-ident of OU, higher education state funding was in the low thirties, but now it’s in the teens, Dorman said.

“The state must invest in our future, and that means preparing students for life after school without a tremendous amount of debt on their backs,” Dorman said.

Dorman said he believes the more the state invests, parents and grandparents who are sub-sidizing loans to help students will also benefit.

Lowering the cost of school for students in-cludes higher scrutiny of fees, Dorman said, “to show that those fees are truly needed.”

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anFrom Rush Springs, Oklahoma, to Washington D.C.

and back, Rep. Joe Dorman is taking on the incumbent governor, Mary Fallin, in the gubernatorial race this fall.

know the gubernatorialIn April, Fallin passed a bill to prevent mini-

mum wage across the state to be increased, and Dorman called this “the height of hypocrisy.”

Dorman said Fallin is for local control but takes away local control to raise minimum wage. The bill prevents municipalities from rais-

ing the minimum wage to a living wage, even though there are Native American territories in Oklahoma that have done so with none of the ill effects Fallin claims there will be, Dorman said.

Other issuesIf elected governor, Dorman said he wants to

make all education levels one of his top priorities. Dorman said this starts with college prep. If

elected governor, Dorman said he would do away with the End of Instruction tests, which he sees as an unfair disadvantage Oklahoma students have to face that other states do not.

Instead of EOI testing, Dorman would take the funding from the End of Instruction tests and use it for ACT prep, to prepare students for getting into college, Dorman said.

The funding would also go toward paying for students to take the ACT their sophomore year, Dorman said.

Final notesDorman said he frequently attends OU football

games, even participating in the Homecoming Parade this year. He hopes to one day receive his doctorate of political science from OU so he can be a professor and teach the subject.

Dorman said he promises if he is elected gov-ernor, he will not be an absent governor who only shows up during election season. He said he in-tends to actively visit the campus to encourage students to be politically active like he was in college.

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fallin

BackgroundPolitics seem to run through the governor’s

blood, as both of her parents served as mayor of Tecumseh, Weintz said.

The governor is an OSU alumna, and she graduated with degrees in human and environ-mental sciences, family relations and child de-velopment. Weintz said that while the governor is an OSU alumna, she sent both of her children to OU.

Fallin served as a state representative for four years, starting in 1990, Weintz said. In 1995, Fallin became lieutenant governor, serving for 12 years, Weintz said. She was the first republi-can ever to hold this position, Weintz said.

After s er ving as l ieutenant g overnor, Fallin served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and then decided to run for governor in 2010, Weintz said.

Time as governorWhen Fallin became governor, Oklahoma had

a 7 percent unemployment rate, and the state “Rainy Day Fund” had $2.03 in it, Weintz said.

These policies, changing workman’s com-pensation, tax cuts and law suit reform, have lowered the unemployment rate to 4.7 percent in just four years and added 102,000 jobs, Weintz said.

Under Fallin, the median household income for Oklahomans is growing at twice the national average and the “Rainy Day Fund” which was at $2.03 has grown to $530 million, Weintz said.

“All of that means that we now have revenue and budget surpluses that we can pump more

Page Jones | @pageousm

Tecumseh, Oklahoma native Gov. Mary Fallin is the incumbent in the gubernatorial race, running against Rep. Joe Dorman, D–Oklahoma City. The

Daily interviewed Fallin’s spokesperson Alex Weintz for this profile.

money into common education and higher ed-ucation,” Weintz said.

These surpluses are why the governor has in-creased funding for education by $180 million, Weintz said.

Fallin has always focused on education because businesses will not want to stay in Oklahoma if they do not have educated and skilled workers, Weintz said.

How Fallin plans to affect college studentsFallin has supported programs like Complete

College America, which is a degree completion program focused on helping students who only have a few credit hours left, but could not finish college to earn their degrees, Weintz said.

As of 2011, 30,000 degrees were awarded per year in Oklahoma, and Fallin’s goal is to increase that number to 50,000 over the next decade, Weintz said.

“We believe that is the number of degrees needed to keep pace with demand for an edu-cated workforce,” Weintz said.

The goal to increase college degrees benefits individual Oklahomans, as well, because college graduates typically make more money than peo-ple without degrees, Weintz said.

In the last budget, Fallin proposed cuts to higher education, causing dissent from OU President David Boren, but these cuts ultimate-ly did not happen, Weintz said.

Fallin also supported the Endowed Shares program, adding $130 million to the program, so that public universities like OU can hire the best professors available to them, Weintz said.

Other issuesIn April, Fallin

passed a bill pre-venting cities from raising their mini-mum wage to pre-vent small business-es from firing em-ployees because they couldn’t afford to pay higher wages and be-c a u s e a m i n i m u m wage increase would cause business to raise their prices, Weintz said.

W e i n t z s a i d t h e Congressional Budget Office reported that if a minimum wage increase went into effect, the of-fice predicted a loss of 500,000 to one million jobs almost overnight.

Fallin also feels that a “patchwork” of mini-mum wage increases across the state would stunt Oklahoma’s current economic growth, Weintz said.

“I think it would have a detrimental effect for any community to pursue a minimum wage in-crease,” Weintz said.

For students who have not made up their mind on what to vote for, Weintz said what he feels is important to students when they graduate is get-ting a job and having an affordable place to live. He said he thinks Fallin has focused on things that will encourage all of those things.

“I think there is a choice between what Gov. Fallin is offering and what her opponent is offer-ing, and we believe that a lot of the policies that Rep. Dorman supports would stop that economic growth and would make life very difficult for col-lege graduates,” Weintz said.

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from football to politicsJoe Mussatto | @joe_mussatto

J.C. Watts transitioned from a star quarterback at Oklahoma to a U.S. congressman.

The Eufaula native led the Sooners to two straight Orange Bowl victories in 1980 and 1981. After graduating with a journalism degree, Watts com-peted in the Canadian Football League before returning to Oklahoma as a pastor and youth minister.

In 1994, Watts was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma’s fourth district. The former congressman and quarterback now serves as chairperson of Watts Partners, a government affairs firm in Washington D.C.

The Daily spoke with Watts about his transition from ath-letics to politics and what advice he would give to aspiring politicians.

When did you decide to run for office and how did you transition from football to politics?

A:When I left the University of Oklahoma in 1981, if you would’ve asked me if I see myself running for something ten years from now, I probably would’ve doubted it, but I wouldn’t have been shocked. I came from a pretty activist family. My uncle was state president of the NAACP for 16 years. My father ran for county sheriff and chief of police. I grew up around politics so I can’t say I was shocked throw-ing my hat in the ring. I can tell you that never in my wildest dreams did I think I would run for congress. Maybe city council or school board, but my thought process never would have taken me beyond a local level. But this is America, and those things can and will happen.

I felt like it was a real possibility that I could win it. At that point, you apply the same principles as foot-ball. You know your offense, understand defenses, work smart, have good people around you and on gameday go out and execute. That’s what I did, and on the first Wednesday of 1994 when I woke up, I had been elected to congress.

Q: Did your athletic career help you in some cases to get to where you wanted to go in politics?

A:I think it surely helped me get my foot in the door, having played quarterback at Oklahoma. At the end of the day, I was convinced that I might have got-ten some brownie points for that. I also like to think that I impressed people with my policies. Playing quarterback at Oklahoma gave me a perspective of the cheer of the crowd. It’s very intoxicating. Just because people are cheering for you on one play, they’re booing you the next. In politics, you’re not always as great as the lobbyists say you are, but you’re not always as stupid as your constituents say you are.

Q: Have you considered running for of-fice again?

A:I’m not driven to do it. I’ve been encouraged and have flirted with the governor’s race but I’m enjoy-ing having my life back. I’m able to make memories with grandkids, watch my son play for the St. Louis Rams and do family stuff. I’m enjoying the ups and downs of everyday life minus politics. I don’t know if I’ll ever do it again because I don’t know if I even qualify to run anymore. I’m smart enough to know that I’m not smart enough to have all the right answers.

Q: What advice would you give to stu-dents who aspire for a career in politics?

A:I would advise them to not be afraid to unlearn much of what they think. You have to unlearn a lot of things based on your upbringing, the part of town you were born in and what your parents thought. No disrespect to parents, ministers, business people or anyone else, but in the last 30 years, I’ve had to unlearn a lot of stuff.

Former Sooner J.C. Watts imparts some advice to aspiring politicians

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ACROSS 1 H.H. Munro’s

pen name 5 Plumbing or

heating, e.g. 10 Slaps the

cuffs on 14 Street ___

(acceptabil-ity, slangily)

15 More healthy

16 “You can say that again!”

17 Plot that thickens?

18 Earthenware cooking pots

19 Kind of palm 20 Oldie with

a star character named Stone

23 Blotto 24 Some bridge

positions 25 Shoot for

(with “to”) 28 Brownish

shade 30 Atoll

protector 31 Envelop in

mist 33 “Give ___

break!” 36 It followed a

girl to school 40 ___ Lanka 41 DEA agents 42 “Don’t tread

___” 43 Settled a bill 44 “Crazy

Legs” Hirsch and others

46 Old belt attachment

49 Banished to Elba, e.g.

51 Tourist attraction in Amsterdam

57 “Cut it out!” 58 Listless dis-

satisfaction 59 Opera star 60 Word with

“limit” or “share”

61 Keep ___ to the ground

62 “Iliad” war god

63 Did great on, as a test

64 Backs, anatomically

65 Affirmative votes

DOWN 1 Bunch 2 With the

bow, in scores

3 Remove space between letters

4 Pick from a lineup

5 Athlete of the Century Jim

6 Breathing sounds

7 Back street 8 ___ as a

doornail 9 Old

attachment for “while”

10 Long Island county

11 Asian nursemaids

12 Brought forth

13 “The ___ of Kilimanjaro”

21 Cause of inflation?

22 Outer limit 25 Supplies

with weapons

26 Mark with a branding iron

27 “Frasier” actress Gilpin

28 New newts 29 Rank of

KFC’s Sanders, briefly

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34 TV award 35 Burrows and

Vigoda

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39 Sabbath 43 Made a

small sound 44 City in

New York 45 Basic unit of

Romanian currency

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jinks 48 Fairy-tale

figure 49 Baltimore’s

___ Harbor 50 Antarctic

predators 52 Hit the books 53 The “A” in

A.D. 54 Ireland,

formerly 55 Eye layer 56 Part of

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On the surface, Iowa State’s (2-5, 0-4 Big 12) record certainly seems unimpressive.

However, a closer look at the Cyclone’s schedule reveals that the squad might be better than its record indicates. In week two, Iowa State gave No. 11 Kansas State a scare, losing by just four points.

The Cyclones have two m o r e l o s s e s t o r a n k e d opponents.

The better of the team’s two victories came against in-state rival Iowa in week three. The Cyclones won 20-17.

Even Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops agrees that his team’s next opponent is “certainly better” than the final scores would indicate.

“Iowa State is a good team who plays hard,” Stoops said in a teleconference.

The two teams facing off in Ames, Iowa, Saturday are both coming off close loss-es. Kansas State infamously downed OU in Norman, and Iowa State lost on a last-sec-ond field goal to Texas after a questionable call by the officiating crew.

With so many tough games in a short amount of time, Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads said it’s important for the team to always look ahead.

“When you’re playing in the Big 12 Conference, every game is going to be a

battle,” he said. “You go from one to the next and prepare your guys the best you can.”

Considering Iowa State has come with-in four points (or less) of a conference win twice this season, the team seems primed for a big upset. With big-name Oklahoma paying a visit this weekend, it feels like now

or never in Ames.“We have a great atmo-

sphere,” Rhoads said. “We have an extremely loyal fanbase.”

Rhoads said playing at home also helps in respect to game-day routine, but recognized that beating OU is no easy task.

“It doesn’t matter where you play Oklahoma, you know you’re going to have a tre-mendous challenge,” he said. “We’re realistic about that ap-proach and excited for the opportunity.”

O n o f f e n s e, Io w a St a t e is led by quarterback Sam Richardson. After winning the quarterback battle that took

place over last season and the offseason, Richardson has already surpassed his 2013 numbers with almost 1,700 yards passing on 173 completions. The junior has also tossed 13 touchdowns.

On the receiving end of the passing attack is tight end E.J. Bibbs. At 6-foot-3-inches and 264 pounds, Bibbs is not necessarily a big name, but he has made his fair share of plays as of late. The senior has hauled in five

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Former OU wide receiver Jalen Saunders runs the ball down the field during last year’s Iowa State game in Norman. Iowa State hopes to do better this year after the Sooners won 48-10 in 2013.

touchdown passes in the last three games. While Iowa State can attribute the offen-

sive success to the players, some credit must be given to new offensive coordinator Mark Mangino, whose name might sound famil-iar to Sooner fans.

Mangino served as an offensive line coach and coordinator for Bob Stoops’ first staff. His playcalling helped Oklahom win a seventh national title in 2000.

Rhoads does not think this gives Iowa

State any advantage.“It ’s been so long since he was at

Oklahoma,” he said.Rhoads said he is pleased with the play of

the offense this season.“I think we’ve improved, obviously, every

week as the season has gone along” he said. “Certainly [the Texas game] was our most explosive effort. We’d like to continue to op-erate with that kind of efficiency.”

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“It doesn’t matter

where you play

oklahoma, you

know you’re going

to have a tremen-

dous challenge.”

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Iowa state looks AHEAD