University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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3 Jeff Linck 3 Fall 27

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Halloween 1982 Terrapin Terror Captures Campus It was a good thing Halloween fell on a Sunday this year; in College Park, one night just isn ' t enough to trick-or-treat right. With the moon shin- ing round and orange in the sky on everybody ' s favorite bizarre holiday, Halloween weekend was one wild party followed by one trip to the Route from Friday at Happy Hour to Sunday night cos- tume parties. Undaunted by reports of recent poi- son scares in Tylenol capsules and razor blade sur- prises in hot dogs, students donned their Halloween spirit and all kinds of funky garb and paraded the campus. Traditional decorations hung in dorm lobbies and area shops; jack-o-lanterns were propped omi- nously in dark windows and orange and black streamers lurked everywhere, but the specialty was the multitude of outrageous costumes spotted in the bars and the libraries. Didn ' t you see the ghost and Mickey Mouse studying at McKeldin? How about King Kong and the black cat dancing at the Attic? Did you spot the cute Robin Hood flirting with that gypsy at the Cellar? Or how about the girls dressed up as Crayola crayons at the dorm party? How many grotesque monsters did you count trying to sneak into the Vous without standing in line? While E.T. was bobbing for apples at a dorm party, three witches, two devils and a couple of transvestites were on their way to see Rocky Hor- ror in Georgetown. While three or four country bumpkins played quarters at the Cellar, a flasher and a monk get psyched to go see The Excorcist , the midnight movie at Hoff Theater. And don ' t forget the pa- rade of nuns keeping vigil all weekend at the Vous. Guys dressed like girls, girls dressed like guys; jocks dressed like punks, and punks dressed like little children — lollipops, saddleshoes and all. From the dorm parties to bar hopping on Route 1 to the keg bashes in the Knox Boxes, Halloween was a colorful, hysterical affair. With all the costumes and candy and trick-or- treating, you could almost forget this was college. For the weekend, everybody was just a kid again. And nobody knows how to play better than a col- lege kid on Halloween! Perry Breig 26 Fall

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The Annual Hop When you walk into Ritchie Colise- um you notice the distin ct odor of Ben- Gay and Baby Powder, and there are more ace bandages in there than the football uses in one week. But this is not the usual football game or wrestliing match. Neither does it involve selling tickets and having cheerleaders present. What it does in- volve is much stamina and strength of heart and many people who care. Such an event was the 1982 Dance Marathon for the American Cancer So- ciety. Each year, hundreds of students begin by getting pledges from their par- ents, friends, and faculty to sponsor them on this four-day marathon. After this, it begins Thursday night at 6 o ' clock with a banquet for the dancers. The bands then begin to play and the dancers begin their grueling, but fun workout. Their strength, stam- ina, and a good pair of sneakers will have to carry them until early Sunday evening when the Dance Marathon is concluded. Several bands play during the course of the Marathon and this year WKYS Radio provided great music and T- shirts for the dancers to keep them moving and in groove for 48 hours. The popularity of the Marathon has grown over the past several years be- cause everyone involved is working for a good cause. Each year, many thou- sands of dollars are raised for the American Cancer Society and each year they raise more money. It takes a few weeks to gather up all the pledges, but the University of Maryland ' s Dance Marathon is always very successful in raising funds for the Cancer Society. The dancers themselves, although completely exhausted when the Mara- thon is completed, really enjoy helping the Cancer Society and enjoy them- selves while they are dancing. When you enter the Coliseum in the beginning you may wonder why anyone would be interested in doing something like this, but by the time you leave, everyone is convinced that the cause is worth the effort and that it is really fun for dancers and spectators alike. David Heneberry 28 Fall