While Halloween weekend is known to be one of the wilder weekends on campus, the Halloween nightlife this year was surprisingly sedate across the University.
In the past, Halloween festivities have been known to bring a higher volume of parties and campus events, which can sometimes leave damaging effects to the University and its property the day after. However, this year seems to have produced less damage and necessitated fewer cleanup efforts.
"This was a very busy, but fairly typical, Halloween weekend," University spokeswoman Lori Doyle said. "Even though there were many registered parties and visitors, nothing out of the ordinary was reported to the Facilities Department or the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs."
Some believe that it was Family Weekend, which was scheduled for the same weekend as Halloween, that kept some parties and the leftover debris from getting out of control.
"We experienced about the same amount of beer bottles and trash that we experience most weekends," Hamilton College House Dean Tabitha Dell'Angelo said. "I think that, because so many students had family here, things did not get out of hand."
Many students also noted the lack of destructive incidents over the weekend.
"I didn't really notice anything different" from normal weekends, College sophomore Chris Utecht said. "Last year was much worse."
College sophomore Emily Weitberg shared a similar view of the situation.
"I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. It was just like any other weekend, and I can imagine that anything unusual would be from the fact that it was Halloween, and it is usually pretty crazy," Weitberg said.
Another possible explanation for the calm following the parties of Halloween weekend was the plethora of alternative activities for students at night.
Frank Pellicone, Harrison College House dean, mentioned that there were no incidents in his house following the Halloween festivities and attributed this to the provided alcohol-free options.
"Harrison sponsored numerous activities -- a haunted house designed by STWing and the Harrison House Council, showings of movies and an Up on Stage open mic night, as well as a costume party, all of which were a great success," Pellicone said.
