Students treated the Hillsdale campus to clever costumes at the Halloween parties last weekend. At the Simpson Halloween Bash, sophomores Ben Strickland and Eric Walker dressed up as senior Spencer Bell.
“When you have the option of being one of the most attractive men on campus, why would you not take it?” Strickland said.
Strickland and Walker mimicked Bell’s facial expressions and mannerisms.
Sophomores Becca French, Christina Lambert, Phoebe Kalthoff, and Mary Agnes Geiger “baa-ed” in almost every word they spoke as they pranced through the Simpson basement, covered in cotton. Close behind them trailed sophomore Elizabeth Green, their “shepherd” wearing a cotton beard and carrying a staff.
“We’re ‘The Pretty Good Shepherd and Flock of Sheep.’ We couldn’t call ourselves ‘The Good Shepherd’ because that would be blasphemous,” French said.
Freshmen Dani Morey and Josh Shaw went as Pepper Potts and Tony Stark from “Iron Man.”
“When I wake up in the morning, I want to look like Robert Downey, Jr.,” Shaw said.
“Don’t we all?” Morey said.
While posing for a picture with Morey, Shaw got into character.
“We just need four more women if we want to be authentic,” Shaw said, referring to Tony Stark’s womanizing ways.
Shaw and Morey posed with freshman David Whitson, who used clown makeup to create the Joker from the “The Dark Knight.”
“I’ve been in theater so many years I can do it myself,” Whitson said, referring to his use of clown makeup.
At the Halloween Swing Dance, seniors Joelle Lucas, Rachel Cook, and Brianna Walden applied zombie makeup to Regency gowns to create a costume they called “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”
“My mom had made all these Pride and Prejudice dresses and I decided they should be used for something other than the Regency Ball, so I decided zombies,” Lucas said.
Overall, Halloween on campus was a success, evidenced by the imaginative costumes gracing the parties.
At the Tree House Halloween party, sophomore Micah Meadowcroft dressed up as Dracula.
“The Tree House always throws the most excellent party no matter the occasion, and their Halloween Bash was no exception,” Meadowcroft said. “The costumes were extraordinarily creative and fun, and I am confident that a delightful time was had all around.”