Fall Fest provides Halloween activities for local residents

AIMEE BERTRAND
DM Staff Writer

The Ole Miss Residence Hall Association will host Fall Fest on Oct. 31.

Fall Fest will be held in Brown, Crosby, Deaton, Stewart and Kincannon residence halls.

The five dorms will host the children of Ole Miss faculty and staff as well as children from Oxford and other surrounding communities.

The kids will have the chance to trick or treat in the lobbies of the dorms, get their faces painted and play games. Students from dorms across the Ole Miss campus will help with the festivities, though they will only take place in the five specified dorms.

RHA Programs Director, Vernicia Gibbs, a sophomore education major, said in the past it has been hard to get all of the halls involved in the event and that she hopes by narrowing the focus of Fall Fest, they can make it even better for the kids.

She also said she hopes to "bring the dorms together in a team effort to promote the event in the community."

Chereda King, Brown Hall finance director and a member of RHA, is helping to plan Fall Fest.

"We hope the kids will have fun in a safe environment," King said. "This way they don't have to go all over the neighborhood trick or treating.

"We will have the lobby all set up. We are going to decorate and have a spooky house and the girls from the dorm are going to dress up to hand out lots of candy and we are going to have snacks for the kids too."

The event will be held in the late afternoon and early evening of Halloween.

In other RHA news:

¥ RHA is sponsoring a coin drive for Habitat for Humanity next week in the Union Lobby.

¥ Representatives will be collecting coins at a table in the lobby from 11 a.m. -1 p.m. for use in a fundraiser for the SAACURH (South Atlantic Affiliation of College and University Residence Halls) convention that RHA members will be attending later this month.