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V OLUME 58, I SSUE 4
Chieftain
H ALLOWEEN I SSUE
The Best
Spooky
Icons
Hail all heroes
On this holiday
Why I Hate Halloween
‘No day is worse than Oct. 31’
Halloween is, without a doubt, the
most overrated, overhyped joke of a
holiday on the calendar. No day is worse
than Oct. 31. Once October hits, I dread-
fully count down the days until this
absurd holiday is over. The people who
think Halloween should be celebrated for
the whole month of
October are psy-
chotic and should
Cole
never be trusted. The
Gellatly
person who came
up with Halloween
was defi nitely an
overweight man who didn’t want to keep
spending his own money on candy.
My hatred for Halloween all started
when I learned I was allergic to peanuts,
which is basically in all the candies peo-
ple give out. As a young lad, I would get
so excited to go trick-or-treating, only to
come home to fi nd out I could not eat a
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majority of the candy I worked so hard
for. In tears, I would have to give my
Reese’s or Snickers to my sister.
Most people hated the people who
gave out toothbrushes for Halloween,
but I loved them. At least a toothbrush
wouldn’t kill me. I’m starting to think
that so many people
loved trick-or-treat-
ing with me because
they knew I couldn’t
eat most of the can-
dy. These so called
“friends” were only
using me to get more candy.
Halloween ruins friendships and makes
kids like me look like chumps. It is so bad
it’s mascot is a pumpkin. All the big hol-
idays have a cool mascot: Christmas has
Santa, Easter has a bunny, Thanksgiving
has a turkey. Whoever came up with the
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By D Shaffer
Chieftain Staff
Every year, there’s a brief period of
time in October when people get really
into Halloween movies, mainly because
it’s spooky season. Although we at the
Chieftain aren’t real big into Halloween,
as inferred from Cole’s article on the
left, ranking some of the top spooky
icons seemed
like a good
idea, so that’s
exactly what
we did. So, in
no particular
order ...
The Great Pumpkin: An absolute
Halloween icon. “The Great Pumpkin,”
a Charlie Brown classic, is a staple for
this holiday. Although it elicits no fear,
unless you are afraid of pumpkins,
The Great Pumpkin is so fi tting for the
spooky time, as you will see many ordi-
nary pumpkins outside of the common
man’s home. If you don’t like the Great
Pumpkin, then the Chieftain wants noth-
ing to do with you.
Michael Myers: It’d probably be disre-
spectful to exclude someone who actu-
ally stars in a movie series named after
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