The Collegian

Issue date: 10/25/07 Section: News

Students packed into the third floor north hallway of Simpson Dormitory Friday night for its annual 'hall-oween' party.

Cereal boxes, Borat, a Twister game board and a plethora of other costume-clad students responded to an invitation from Simpson Dormitory's Third Floor North to "dance and party" and "eat our food" at the hall's annual "3FN HALLoween" party.

Over 250 students helped to create an impenetrable mass of bodies in the hall.

"This is the night where legends are made," sophomore Emily Thiessen said. "The costumes you wear tonight will go down in infamy."

Freshman Robby Colgan was dressed as a hot nurse.

"I was looking for something that would be amusing and awkward at the same time, [so I] came to the conclusion of a hot nurse," Colgan said.

Senior Sam Russell worked for Kellogg's over the summer and had large display cereal boxes left over. Russell said that he and freshman Sam Bender "figured we'd put our heads through 'em and our arms through 'em."

Freshman Casey Cheney said he decided to dress as Borat because he can mimic the voice.

"3FN is best hall in all of Hillsdale," he said in Borat's thick accent, adjusting his moustache just before it fell off.



Bare-chested and clad in a bowtie, cummerbund and corduroy pants, senior Jeff Myers was a Chippendale.

"Got some dignity here," Myers said of his pants. "I put a lot of confidence in these corduroys. They keep me from all the crazies in the street."

Not all costumes worked out so well, however. Hillsdale College mascot Charlie the Charger (junior Jack Shannon) came dressed as a cow.

"Nobody understood what it was," Shannon said. "Everyone kept saying, 'Are you a … corse, or a how?'"

Shannon later discarded the costume.

"I got aggravated that no one knew what it was, so I took it off. And it was really hot," he said.

Junior Sean Crawford manned the attendance table, making sure all guests signed in so the hall could keep an accurate count. The hall hoped to break a record of about 480 guests, but Crawford said students may have had lower expectations about the party due to a large influx of freshmen residents on the hall.

Myers had heard the rumor as well. "Some people say 'oh, the character is gone.' No. The character is different."

"[I] didn't really know what to expect," Colgan said. "[It's] definitely better than anything I could imagine."

"Sweet party. Hot costume," Shannon said.

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