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Campus Lake Massacre to start this weekend

Something about lakes, woods and darkness has a tendency to terrify, and the Public Relations Student Society of America is counting on that something.

The PRSSA, along with help from five Registered Student Organizations, will sponsor the second annual "Campus Lake Massacre: Professors Gone Mad" on Friday and Saturday nights on the trail around Campus Lake and through Thompson Point woods.

PRSSA President Kristen Wells said the event was conceived last fall by the organization's former president and vice president in an attempt to change SIUC's Halloween reputation in the community.

"They basically started it because they love haunted houses, and Halloween has always had a negative connotation here in Carbondale," Wells said. "We are making it really safe and really fun but at the same time still scary."

The Professors Gone Mad theme centers on a psychology professor who hypnotizes other faculty members to murder students, and each RSO will act out different faculty roles.

"PRSSA is doing a chemistry professor and an athletic coach, and those are our scenes. Our part is in the beach house, and the others are on the trail," said Janet Ray, the trail manager and PRSSA member.

The haunted trail entrance will be near the boat dock and the Engineering Building, and the trail will wind around the lake. The RSOs, excluding PRSSA, will compete all along the trail for a prize for the best and scariest portion.

"Through the trail, they are competing, and we will have three judges," Wells said. "Brad Cole is one of them, and we're trying to get Maggie Flanagan and the USG President [Tequia Hicks]."

The organization had to find people willing to volunteer to complete the planning, which began in September.

"We asked PRSSA members first and then asked our adviser if they could ask some of their classes, and then the RSOs," she said. "Marion Ford is one of our pyramid clients and they donated some money, and we had a Krispy Kreme fund-raiser."

Last year's Campus Massacre won a SIUC leadership award for "Outstanding Program" for contributing 60 percent of the $3,500 raised for charity. This year will be a canned food drive and fundraiser for the Humane Society of Carbondale, American Cancer Society of Marion and St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

Because Halloween coincides with Family Weekend this year, the trail will be open from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for a children and family version of the trail. Regular trail hours will be from 8:30 p.m. to midnight.

Admission will be $3 with a can of food or $5 without

 

 

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