WHAT: OkSoberfest ABOUT: OkSoberfest provides a free, alternative night to drinking and high-risk behaviors for UNK student on Halloween. The event includes a costume contest, haunted house, casino night and board games. Free food and drinks are provided. Students are encouraged to dress up and enter the costume contest. Awards for best dressed will be handed out at 9 p.m. HOSTED BY: Health Education Office under the Student Health and Counseling Department TIME: 7 to 11 p.m. DATE: Monday, … [Read more...]
DOUG BIGGS: Dots, Batman and Aaron Rodgers
Doug Biggs, professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, shares his thoughts on Halloween. What is the best Halloween costume you had as a kid? The one I remember the most was when I was eight, nine or 10 years old. I loved Batman. I got to be Batman for a couple years in a row until I got too big for the costume. What was your favorite treat to receive as a kid? Any candy! Any kind of chocolate. I loved gummy candy, like Jujyfruits or Dots. I could just eat that stuff … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Pumpkin Chunkin
Honoring annual tradition, UNK art students celebrated Halloween with a little pumpkin chunkin in the Fine Arts courtyard. http://youtu.be/7G1pRf7TV1I … [Read more...]
Shannon Spiers creates one-of-a-kind Halloween costumes for daughter
By SARA GIBONEY UNK Communications KEARNEY – Shannon Spiers is carrying on her family tradition of creating unique Halloween costumes, and connecting with her daughter in the process. Spiers, an office associate for the Master of Business Administration Program at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, began sewing with her mom, Sharon Leech of Ravenna, as a child. “It was just something my mom and I always did together,” she said. Growing up, she spent time cross stitching and … [Read more...]
HALLoween at UNK features scary stories, treats
KEARNEY – Children will be tricked and treated during Halloween events at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. HALLoween at UNK will be Wednesday (Oct. 29). Children can listen to spooky Victorian stories read by costumed interpreters from 2 to 8 p.m. during Phantoms at the Frank House. There will also be candy, punch, art activities and more. From 5 to 8 p.m., UNK students will lead children through the residence halls during Trick or Treat Street. Children and their parents are … [Read more...]
