PVCC Celebrates Halloween with Costume Competition
On Monday, Oct. 31, PVCC celebrated Halloween by inviting students to put on costumes and compete for prizes in a variety of categories.
The contest took place at the Bolick Student Center at noon. Streamers of toilet paper hung from the Student-Center ceiling, and the tables had been moved to the edges of the room to leave space for a small stage on which the contestants could show off their costumes. Costumed students and faculty — some there for the contest, others taking advantage of the opportunity to dress up — sat around the center and passed through the hallway.
Both before and after the costume contest, Director of Advising and Transfer Kemper Steele, dressed for the occasion as the Monopoly Man, ran a Halloween-themed trivia contest for anyone in the center. The questions included topics such as the most disliked Halloween candy (candy corn) and the plant used to make the original jack-o’-lanterns (turnips).
After a bit of trivia, the contest itself began. People moved away from the stage at the center of the Bolick Student Center. Interim Director of Student and Campus Engagement Gigi Davis, dressed as a baseball coach, called contestants up to the stage one at a time to show off their costumes. The costumes shown included a Star Wars stormtrooper, a Star Trek red shirt, several fairies, Bob Ross, a rabbit, Cookie Monster, a creepy clown, a Ghostbuster, and a boy scout. The boy scout displayed his costume in a sketch where he and the Ghostbuster helped someone who fell off the stage.
After all the contestants had been onto the stage, they went outside for a group photo, and the people in the student center started voting on the costumes. There were five categories for contestants to win prizes in: scariest costume, funniest costume, cutest costume, best animal-based costume, and best career–based costume.
The winners of each category received a $20 gift card for the PVCC bookstore. Before the results were announced, Steele said, “This was great. Everyone was really creative. Really talented.”
The winners of the contest were the clown for scariest costume, the boy scout for the funniest, one of the fairies for cutest, the rabbit for animal-based, and Bob Ross for career-based. Shazila Nadia Muzafar Shah, the student who won the prize for cutest costume, said, “I’m personally really glad that PVCC had a costume contest because it gave me an excuse to dress up without being worried that no one else will dress up.”
