Halloween spooks and schizophrenia

CS 341: Halloween Costume Predictions using Twitter

For this project we had access to Walmart's sales data from the Northern Illinois region for October 7, 2011 November 7, 2011 as well as 3 billion tweets from a similar time frame. We began this project with an aim to predict the sales of Halloween costumes for Walmart using Twitter as a signal. The analysis we conducted showed that one could indeed correlate the sales of Halloween costumes wit...

Missed deadlines delay ' 83 Campanile past Halloween

by Dave Collins P r o d u c t i o n p rob lems this summer have forced a delay in the delivery of the 1983 Campanile. The Rice yearbook will be shipped in late October and will arrive by November 1, according to 1983 Editor Elizabeth Glass. Campanile editor Chip Clay cited various problems leading to the delay, including missed deadlines and the intentional mailing of blank pages to the publish...

Beyond the Spooks : The Problem with the Narrator in

Unmasking Racism: Halloween Costuming and Engagement of the Racial Other

We explore Halloween as a uniquely constructive space for engaging racial concepts and identities, particularly through ritual costuming. Data were collected using 663 participant observation journals from college students across the U.S. During Halloween, many individuals actively engage the racial other in costuming across racial/ethnic lines. Although some recognize the significance of racia...

The Corporate Masquerade: Branding Masculinity Through Halloween Costumes

This paper argues that men’s Halloween costumes do not offer insight on versions of hegemonic and non-hegemonic masculine performativity as much as Halloween costumes tell us about the colonization of masculinity by commercial interests, thus creating yet another version of branded masculinity. The data, from a content analysis of 100 images of men’s Halloween costumes, demonstrates the conside...