As part of fall and Howl-O-Ween festivities, NC State Dining held “Howl-O-Ween Sweets and Treats and Scary Eats” at two of its dining halls, Fountain and Clark on Monday.
Clark and Fountain were transformed for the event, with decorations on the walls and hanging from the ceilings. Many costumes could be spotted among the crowd of students enjoying their dinner, including cats, Vikings and witches.
Students also sported costumes of characters featured in movies and videogames, like Link from the Legend of Zelda series, the Joker, Batman, Harley Quinn and steampunk-styled characters.
Students ate their dinners with the theme songs of horror classics playing on the speakers, such as from “Jaws,” “Halloween” and other horror-themed tracks.
A tent was set up for students where they could choose a pumpkin to decorate with markers, paint brushes and crafts like plastic spiders, googly eyes and fur balls.
“I came here to get some food, but saw that they had free pumpkins and some paint and sharpies, so I went to town on painting the old-school diamond NCSU logo on a pumpkin,” said Chase Durant, a sophomore studying electrical engineering who was busy with his craft outside of Fountain Dining Hall after eating dinner. “I thought the decorations were really cool, they always do a good job with them.”
As part of the event, Fountain Dining Hall had chocolate fountains with plates of bananas, cantaloupe slices, strawberries and a bowl of marshmallows to dip in the chocolate. Students gathered in long lines for this and also for a Halloween treat bar, where students could get gummy worms, M&M’s and Sour Patch Kids in a cup.
Aubrey Knier, a freshman studying art and design, enjoyed some treats at the chocolate fountain.
“I think it’s a really fun way to bring the holiday in our crazy and busy college lives, at least it is for me,” Knier said. “I really like the chocolate fountain, it’s my favorite thing here.”
Pumpkins sit outside Clark Dining Hall for students to take as part of the Howl-O-Ween event held on Monday. Multiple sizes of pumpkins were offered and students could decorate the pumpkins with glitter, paint, pompoms and markers or keep them bare.
