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Q&A: ‘Young voters made the difference’ LIANA BAYNE news reporter Steve Shannon, Democratic candidate for the state attorney general’s office, spent Virginia Tech’s homecoming weekend meeting and greeting Hokies. The current state delegate and former Fairfax County prosecutor is running against Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli, a member of the Virginia Senate. Shannon walked in the parade before returning to the Montgomery C o u n t y SHANNON Democratic headquarters on South Main Street where he addressed area supporters. He later made his way down to Lane Stadium to tailgate before watching the football game with university president Charles Steger. The Collegiate Times caught up with him before the game to chat about his goals for the upcoming election.
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our resources together and start getting more aggressive to go after these guys and try to recover those young children. CT: What other major issues other than children and families are you going to work on? SHANNON: The job of the attorney general is you’re the top law enforcement officer in the state. The other thing that the general council is all of our executive agencies included — I’ve worked very closely in legislature with President Steger on issues that benefit the university, and the biggest thing we’ve done for higher education in the past couple years was the higher education bond package a couple years ago that resulted in a lot of new construction programs you see at Tech now. I was one of a handful of people who put together that bond act that benefits universities and community colleges. In 2004, Virginia passed the Mark Warner budget that put a major infusion of capital into our university infrastructure. CT: How do you think you’ll continue to positively affect higher education? SHANNON: In the role of general council, we need to continue to try to ... work with universities and community colleges to expand the number of students attending, try to work to keep tuition rates at a reasonable level, need to work with private sector to get more research and development. Tech is one of our premier research institutions. One of the reasons we’ve been able to attract a number of companies to Virginia is the relationship of Virginia Tech with engineering. My job as the attorney for the university will be to work with more companies to collaborate with Tech.
COLLEGIATE TIMES: What are you going to do for college students here in Blacksburg? STEVE SHANNON: I’m a former state prosecutor who served in the state legislature for the past six years. I’m running to make Virginia a safer place for all our families and all of our young people to call home. We do a lot of great things in Virginia, but with the issue of public safety — the reality is that every four-and-a-half minutes a violent crime is committed. It’s affecting the rural areas as much as it’s affecting the urban and suburban areas. The reality is that technology is an amazing thing, with regards to the way we learn, work, communicate, but there are new security challenges, particularly when we’re dealing with adult predators preying on kids on the Internet. I’m running to make Virginia a safer place for all our families, I’m not running on a personal political agenda. My political opponent, during his career, predominantly focused on conservative cultural issues — I don’t believe the position of attorney general should be trying to promote a national cultural agenda. I think it should be about keeping families safe.
CT: Why should college kids, and people living in this small town of Blacksburg vote for you? SHANNON: Everyone has ... an interest in keeping us safe. I’m the only person running who has been a prosecutor, who will not need on the job training, I’ve got detailed plans for keeping our community safe, and my opponent has said this — spent his time on cultural agenda he’d sent to the attorney general’s office.
CT: What is the first positive change you’d want to affect were you to be elected? SHANNON: The first thing I’d want to do is focus on one of the major public safety issues. Right now we’ve been able to identify 92,357 computers in use here in Virginia to actively trade child pornography. The reality is that behind each one of these cases a young child is being exploited. The attorney general is charged with being the prosecutor for cases involving child pornography. I don’t need on-the-job training to prosecute these guys trying to hurt kids. The first thing I’d want to do is pool
CT: Is there anything else you’d like to add that I didn’t mention? SHANNON: Regardless of what people do on Nov. 3, it’s everybody’s obligation to turn out to vote. Last year we had a 76 percent turnout. Young voters made the difference in the last election. If young voters come out to vote this year, it will dramatically change the outcome in this election. If they decide not to exercise their right to vote, the election could very well go a different way, and to my mind if young people vote, the public policies that they believe in more often than not occur. And if they sit it out, then their voices don’t matter.
For its “Send Silence Packing” exhibition, Active Minds, an organization committed to raising awareness of campus mental health issues, arranged 1,100 backpacks on the Drillfield Monday, symbolizing the number of college suicides that occur each year. photo by jonathan pippin
[news in brief] Ceremony names Chemistry-Physics for Hahn The Chemistry-Physics Building will receive a new name honoring a former university president Friday. A ceremony will dedicate the building in honor of former university president T. Marshall HAHN Hahn. The building was chosen because Hahn was the dean of the physics department before he became university president. University spokesman Larry Hincker said that the building would also receive Hahn’s
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name in “recognition that he’s probably one of the greatest presidents we’ve ever had.” “He really truly transformed Virginia Tech,” Hincker said. Between 1962 and 1974, Hahn helped to revolutionize the demographics of Tech’s student body. He fully opened enrollment, including the corps of cadets, to women. Enrollment tripled while he held the office. Additionally, 28 undergraduate and graduate degrees were added during his term along with new programs, notably the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Hincker said that Hahn was also the chairman for a committee that advised former gov-
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ernor Miles Godwin to “bolster higher education” by giving more funding to junior colleges and establishing more community colleges across the state. “This is a good way to say thanks to a great man,” Hincker said. The building will be renamed “Hahn Hall North Wing.” The adjacent chemistry research building currently known as “Hahn Hall” will be “Hahn Hall South Wing.” The dedication ceremony is at 3:30 p.m. on the first floor of the Chemistry-Physics Building. A reception will follow the ceremony.
A local physician who has worked with the Virginia Tech athletics department was charged with felony property damage Wednesday. A Blacksburg Police department release said Marc Siegel, 56, was arrested in connection with an October incident at Montgomery Regional Hospital. Police investigated damage to a staff member’s vehicle in the physician’s parking lot. Siegel has been charged with one felony count of damage to property and was release on $5,000 unsecured bond. Siegel is listed as a member of the Tech sports medicine team as an orthopedic surgeon. His first court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 29, 2009 in Montgomery County General District Court.
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Former president Torgersen to give lecture on engineering developments In the building named in his honor, former university president Paul E. Torgersen will deliver the Vecellio Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m. on Friday. Torgersen’s speech will focus on the College of Engineering’s decision to require all engineering students to purchase a personal computer. TORGERSEN Virginia Tech was the first public engineering school to necessitate such a purchase 25 years ago. Torgersen was the dean of the college during that time, from 1970 to 1990. He took over as president from 1994 to 2000. When the requirement was first put in place, incoming freshmen to
the college needed to own a “portable” machine weighing over 40 pounds. Now, engineer majors are required to own a tablet PC. Torgersen’s lecture is titled “The Virginia Tech Personal Computer Initiative or Walking Two Miles in the Snow to Catch the School Bus.” “We have been on the leading edge for the past 25 years”, said Lynn Nystrom, spokeswoman of the College of Engineering. “I have a feeling the talk is going to become a standing-only room. People are looking forward to it.” Nystrom also serves as an adviser to the Collegiate Times. The Vecellio Distinguished Lecture Series is funded by a $1 million endowment supplied by the Vecellio family, which counts several Tech graduates among its ranks. by jennifer dawood
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october 15, 2009
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University should not pressure faculty to alter their research V
irginia Tech is trying to walk a fine line when it promotes “diversity” as strongly as possible. Unfortunately, the university often crosses the line when it coerces faculty members to conform to the university’s “diversity” mission. Last month, my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, sent the university’s Board of Visitors a 15-page letter with 13 enclosures demonstrating that the university administration has, over the past few years, persistently increased pressure on faculty members to alter their research, teaching and personal development activities in order to show “diversity accomplishments.” FIRE has no position on the university’s diversity agenda, but strongly opposes the coercive means being used to accomplish it. Tech’s policy statements, tenure and promotion guidelines, and recent public statements show that these efforts go far beyond the Virginia Tech Principles of Community, to which the board and other campus constituencies agreed to aspire in 2005. For instance, an official 2006 memo states that “the university promotion and tenure dossier calls for a reporting of diversityrelated activities” and that each faculty member has the “responsibility” to contribute to the university’s diversity mission. It orders personnel committees and department heads to “give consistent attention to these activities in the evaluation process.” Although requiring candidates to demonstrate “involvement in diversity initiatives“ may seem admirable and innocuous, in practice this requirement amounts to an ideological loyalty oath to an abstract concept — “diversity” — that can represent vastly different things to different people. This flexibility might seem to be a virtue until professors realize that they are to be judged on the quality of their commitment to such an abstract concept, and that their peers and the public might discount the quality of their work, knowing that their work may have been distorted by the university’s official agenda. Moreover, since 2008 the Diversity Committee of the College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences has invested the term “diversity” with a specific, ideological meaning that binds the academic freedom and conscience of faculty members, “acknowledging and respecting that socially constructed differences based on certain characteristics exist within systems of power that create and sustain inequality, hierarchy, and privilege. (CLAHS) is determined to eliminate these forms of inequality, hierarchy, and privilege in our programs and practices. In this sense, diversity is to be actively advanced ...” As a college within a public university, CLAHS should be a true “marketplace of ideas” that does not demand its members’ loyalty to such specific, politicized pronouncements and commitments. If Tech truly believes in tolerance, freedom of conscience and academic freedom, it must not expect professors to incorporate a
political orthodoxy into their courses, research or personal development activities, no matter how much the university may believe in that orthodoxy and wish others to embrace it. This is not how Dean Sue Ott Rowlands sees it. In April of this year, she sent a memo throughout CLAHS reaffirming the ideological obligations of faculty members: “The value we place upon equity obliges us to challenge systems of oppression and privilege. ... Service is not just a path we choose but a perspective we consciously adopt.” The problem is not specific to CLAHS, however; it is university-wide. In May 2008, Provost Mark McNamee sent an official memo to all department heads, to Chairs of Departmental Promotion and Tenure Committees, and to Chairs of Collegiate Promotion and Tenure Committees. He wrote: “... candidates must do a better job of participating in and documenting their involvement in diversity initiatives. Diversity accomplishments are especially important for candidates seeking promotion to full professor.” No faculty member can read this memorandum and believe that “diversity accomplishments” are optional. The problem has not been resolved in the latest guidelines for faculty members’ promotion and tenure dossiers. The 2009–10 guidelines still require “(d)iversity initiatives or contributions.” In addition, on April 30 of this year, President Charles Steger and McNamee sent an open letter to the university community reaffirming that faculty members have an “individual” responsibility to conform their thinking to fit Tech’s ideology and agenda: “We also affirm individual and collective responsibility for helping to eliminate bias and discrimination and for increasing our own understanding of these issues through education, training and interaction with others.” In the landmark case of West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette in 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear the importance of freedom of conscience in our liberal democracy: “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” Tech seems to believe otherwise. By requiring active involvement in “diversity initiatives,” Tech impermissibly forces faculty members to confess both by word and by act their faith in the university’s model and ideals of “diversity.” Let Tech aspire to these ideals, but don’t make them mandatory. Editor’s note: View the article on our Web site at www.collegiatetimes.com for links to the cited memos and guidelines.
ADAM KISSEL -director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program
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Share your affection, love despite fear of rejection A
s the summer ended before fall classes began, my best friend from home and I started getting on each others’ nerves. We knew it was because we would soon be leaving each other for an extended period of time, so we decided to make a date. Our afternoon consisted of sushi and seeing the promising romantic comedy “(500) Days of Summer.” What you’ll learn about the film either through close attention to the trailer or within the first few shots of the actual film, is that it is not a love story. It’s a story about heartbreak. “(500) Days of Summer” is beautifully directed and has a gut-wrenching soundtrack intimately tied to the sequence of events within the film. Whether you end up liking the movie or not, it is inarguably intentional in its details, and anything so well thought through is worth paying attention to. A particular dream sequence captures the essence of one of the film’s most profound messages. The hero Thomas, a romantic, is on a busy street with a single balloon. He is approached by a mournful-looking mime who clearly needs a “pickme-up.” Thomas offers his balloon to the mime, thinking it will make
him happy, but the mime grasps the balloon momentarily, only to then slowly loose his grip, allowing the balloon to float away. Thomas, having offered his balloon, is somewhat shocked, and to add insult to injury, the mime promptly slaps him across the face. This brief bit in the film is analogous to its story — a hopeless romantic offers his affections to someone, only to be spurned. One would hope that if our hero Thomas encounters another mime he might be more cautious sharing his balloon, but the easy way he offers it the first time is what makes his character endearing. When I saw the film a second time at the Lyric, I decided there might have been a better way for the balloon exchange to go down. Thomas should not have outright offered the balloon, but rather he should have offered to hold it with the mime. Perhaps sharing your affections is the only way it would work. “Meet me halfway” is an expression I’m becoming more and more familiar with. It treads a fine line between taking a leap of faith and a measured response. In day-to-day decisionmaking (how should I spend my
afternoon?) and the long-term kind (should I commit to four more years of school?), “meeting halfway” is difficult. In love its especially hard because the consequences seem dire. I try to live by the phrase “love fearlessly,” but it’s easier said than done. It is very easy when you feel uniquely loved (such as, no one knows me like her), but when you’re not it seems naive (he doesn’t deserve my affection) to love fearlessly. I’ve been called naive before many times, but I have decided to champion this. There are enough people around who guard their emotions — it’s predictable, and it’s boring. If I were really naive, I wouldn’t have had so much success with my romantic dreaming. You can only exceed your wildest expectations when the expectations are already wild. Love fearlessly and find an endless stock of balloons.
CHRISTOPHER COX -regular columnist -senior -communication major
General should remember his place in rank, not get ahead I
feel sorry for Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal. The top commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is in hot water. Last week, he rejected the idea of scaling down U.S. troop levels and fighting al-Qaeda there with drones and missiles. Such a strategy shift — which some in the administration are advancing — would be “shortsighted,” he said. The general’s sin was not that he was wrong — I believe his analysis is correct — but that he spoke in public. He got out ahead of his commanderin-chief, President Obama, who is reviewing Afghanistan strategy for the second time this year. Pundits claimed McChrystal was “boxing the president in,” and administration officials cautioned him to give his advice privately, through the chain of command. No doubt the General would have been wiser to do so. Yet the Afghanistan review is taking place in such a backhanded and politicized fashion that I sympathize with his lapse. When he took office, Obama commissioned a policy review for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He put forward his new strategy in March and repeated it in a speech in August. The goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. That goal, said Obama, requires preventing a return of Taliban rule to Afghanistan. In May, Obama sacked his Afghan commander, Gen. David McKiernan, for failing to pursue the strategy aggressively enough. He chose McChrystal to replace him. After arriving in June, the new commander was asked to assess the situation, and someone leaked his pessimistic report to the Washington Post last month. The general was blunt: The new strategy had to be carried out very
differently — and with adequate resources — or it could fail. But his report was much more than a general’s eternal plaint for more troops. Two points were central. First, the key to our eventual drawdown was to train more Afghan security forces. However, that training would take time; in the interim, North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces would have to prevent the Taliban from taking over. This would require more NATO resources, civilian and military. Second, the general noted, Afghans lacked confidence in the international community’s commitment. “A perception that our resolve is uncertain makes Afghans reluctant to align with us against the insurgents,” McChrystal said, even though most Afghans dislike the Taliban. “We must convince Afghans our commitment is unwavering,” he said. McChrystal worried that “failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.” And he was clear: “if the Afghan government falls to the Taliban ... Afghanistan could again become a base for terrorism.” Within the U.S. military, there is a strong belief that Al-Qaeda would move operatives back to Afghanistan if the Taliban took control of large swaths of the country. McChrystal feels the urgency of the situation that is deteriorating fast. Yet suddenly, last month, a fullblown debate emerged within the administration over whether the Afghan battle is worth fighting. Spurred by the McChrystal report, the debate questioned not only
troop levels, but also whether the fight should be waged. It is colored by understandable fears within the administration that the Afghan war may drag down all of Obama’s domestic plans. Reports have dribbled out that some White House aides believe the war can better be fought with drones and special forces. This ignores the fact that, should the Taliban retake Afghanistan, we would have no ground intelligence for such a strategy. Other Obama officials are reportedly asking whether it matters if the Taliban come back to power. So I can understand why McChrystal debunked these ideas in response to a questioner at a speech in London. Probably, he was speaking out of frustration. His was not a MacArthur-esque gesture openly challenging a president. This general is trying to carry out Obama’s declared goals. If the general must button his lip, it would help for senior administration officials to address these key questions, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates did yesterday. He spoke on CNN about the danger of a Taliban takeover, saying it would send a hugely empowering message to jihadists worldwide if the Taliban defeated the United States and NATO — just as Afghan militants defeated the Soviet Union. Let us hope Obama will heed Gates’ warning and listen to McChrystal in private talks.
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Midway through season, women’s soccer team a contender HATTIE FRANCIS sports staff writer With half the season on the books, the Virginia Tech women’s soccer team sits in second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings, just behind the University of North Carolina. The women’s soccer team has had a successful season so far, but it did not start off that way. After beating High Point 2-0, the Hokies traveled to Villanova to face the Wildcats on Aug. 28. They went on to lose their second game of the season, 1-2. “The Villanova loss was a little bit of game management issues for us,” head coach Kelly Cagle said. “We fought hard. “It was our first away kind of weekend, and coming out with a tie would have been a best case scenario for us. We learned a lot about game management in terms of trying to play an entire 90 minutes.” The team bounced back to beat Virginia Commonwealth University 4-3 on Sept. 4, but it had to face No. 4 Stanford two days later. The outcome was not as good as it lost to the Cardinals, 0-5. “With Stanford, we just realized how far we were from some of the best teams in the country at that point in the season,” Cagle said. “That was a humbling experience. We have a lot of respect for every team we play and certainly a team of that caliber. I couldn’t be prouder at how they’ve responded from that point forward, just to trust in themselves and also in the plan and that you have to execute for 90 minutes.” As for the plan, each game is different for Cagle. However, there are some key points. The plan must be effort-based and energy-based, and the opponent must be respected since the ACC is the toughest conference in the country. According to Cagle, if you don’t work hard for 90 minutes, teams that are good enough to beat you will. “They were out of conference games,” senior forward Emily Jukich said regarding the two losses. “They kind of refueled us to want to redeem ourselves when we got into the ACC, and it just kind of lit a fire up under us.” After learning their lesson and picking up their caliber of play, the Hokies shot to stardom in the ACC. “We’ve come miles,” Jukich said. “I just can’t believe we are where we are now.” The addition of sophomore goalkeeper Kristin Carden helped in the teams improvement as well. Carden was a member of the team last year, starting in goal for the Hokies in their first round loss to Davidson at the
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Coach Cagle speaks to her team before the Hokies’ home opener.
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NCAA Championships. She rejoined the team this season prior to its game on Sept. 20 against Davidson. “Carden plays a really special role on our team along with the 26 other members of this program,” Cagle said. “We aren’t here today without Carden and without the 26 other members. “We’re so happy she’s back and enjoying herself.” After Carden rejoined the team, the Hokies won seven straight matches, including victories against Clemson, North Carolina State, No. 18 Virginia and No. 1 UNC. Tech’s victory against the Tar Heels was its first ever against the UNC program and only the 34th loss in 31 years for Carolina. Jukich began the match with a bang when 46 seconds into the first half she blasted the ball into the back of the net, only to have an offsides penalty called and the goal revoked. “That would have been one of the best moments of my life,” Jukich said laughing. She said winning the game was actually the best moment of her life. “I knew from that moment on that we were in that game and that we were going to come out on top,” Jukich said. Junior forward Marika Gray, the only Hokie to ever score on UNC prior to this season’s matchup, kept her title when she kicked the winning goal in the 53rd minute. “It was exciting, but we still had an entire half,” Gray said. “I wanted to beat them even more, so I had to get back to that mindset of, ‘This game’s not over yet, anyone can come back.’” Gray downplayed her specific contribution and emphasized that it was a victory the entire team shared in. “Anybody could have been standing there where I was at,” she said. “I just happened to be at the right place at the
right time. Our entire team locked them in, defense was awesome, midfield controlled it, and it was a team effort. It takes one foot to put the ball in the net, but the entire team to get it there.” “This team is very close-knit on and off the field,” Cagle said. “They expect each other to do well. They are accountable to one another, but yet they are close. That’s a hard balance to find to strike, especially with female athletes, and they are doing a phenomenal job of it.” One of those athletes helping to contribute to this balance is a young leader, freshman midfielder Kelly Conheeney. Coming into the season, Conheeney felt she really needed to earn her position on the team. “I really thought I had to work my butt off to earn my spot,” Conheeney said. “I need to work well with the team. I need to give it everything I have. “Especially at the beginning of the season when we were kind of up and down, we couldn’t really find ourselves,” Conheeney said. “We came together as a team and talked about what we all played for, and that really brought us together.” Cagle felt the same way. “I think for the first time in our program’s life, our team up until this stage has a belief in the last month that we can play with anybody,” Cagle said. “They are sticking to the game plan. They are trusting in it. They are working so hard, and they believe in themselves.” The team hopes to maintain the focus that propelled it toward the top of the ACC standings for the second half of the season as well. “We want to try and get an at-home NCAA bid so we can play in front of our fans at Tech,” Jukich said. “I take it game by game,” Conheeney said. “I think just winning every game one by one. I don’t like looking ahead to the future, just keep winning.” The team continued its second half of the season last night against Longwood.
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Tech freshman midfielder Kelly Conheeny scores the Hokies’ second goal against Davidson on Sept. 20.
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editors: topher forhecz, teresa tobat featureseditor@collegiatetimes.com/ 540.231.9865
october 15, 2009
MARY ANNE CARTER -features reporter -junior -communcation major -ran a marathon
HOW TO MAKE A DINOSAUR HOODIE COSTUME YOU WILL NEED:
- One solid-colored hoodie - 6 pieces of felt in the color of your choice - 2 googly eyes - Fabric glue - Needle and thread
STEP ONE: Cut triangular teeth and spikes, which will run along the spine on the back, out of felt. The size and number are up to you — just be sure to cut doubles of the spikes so that you can stuff them.
COST: $10-$20 depending on the cost
of your hoodie TIME: One hour
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Hoodies make for monstrous fun hen it comes to holidays, I’ve always been the type to forgo heaps of Christmas presents, homemade birthday cakes and any number of Valentine’s Day cards for the costumes, candy and chaos of Halloween. I spare no expense for the sugar-fueled evening of trickery, annually spending dozens of hours and dollars on constructing the perfect costume. Yet, as I giddily prance around in my carefully planned ensemble each year, I dependably draw several scathing looks from
my unimpressed peers. The Scrooges of Halloween are the steady group of detractors evolved from the condescending kids wearing the same monster mask every year to the students who dress up like “Virginia Tech fans.” Of course, there’s the worst of all: not dressing up at all. “I only do it for the candy” has become “I only do it for the parties” for this apathetic demographic, which is comprised of people who put more effort into not dressing up than sucking it up and embracing the holiday for
what it is. In the past, I’ve had near brushes with death after openly insulting under-dressed partygoers and have settled on a more peaceful approach this year. And that is to create a costume based on the most universally comfortable article of clothing: the hoodie. Rocked by homebodies and homeboys alike, hoodies transcend any subculture, social class or stereotype and provide hope for even those suffering from the most severe cases of costumephobia.
STEP TWO: Fold the hoodie in half so that the zipper and the middle of the back are on either side. Lay the spikes in place along the back and up the hood. The triangles should be layered so that they are directly on top of one another with one on either side of the back fold.
STEP THREE: Pin the teeth along the hood of the sweatshirt. STEP FOUR: Sew the spikes in place, stuffing them with scrap felt as you go. This provides stiffness and bulk that will allow them to stand up and stand out.
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OTHER HOODIE COSTUME IDEAS
H STEP FIVE: Use fabric glue to attach the teeth and googly eyes to the hood. Let dry for 12 hours. STEP SIX: The half-hearted can pair their new hoodie with jeans or their normal pants, while the newly converted Halloween-lovers can pair it with matching sweatpants — tail optional!
oodies can be used to create almost any animal or cloaked figure. Here are a few other ideas. -Unicorn: On a white, pink or purple sweatshirt, attach rhinestones as eyes and use felt to create a horn on the top of your head. Add multicolored ribbons and fabric strips to create a mane. -Bunny: On a white, light pink, brown or black sweatshirt, use felt to add ears to the hood and use face paint to give yourself whiskers.
-Little Red Riding Hood: On a red sweatshirt, attach two yarn braids to either underside of the hood. -The Big Bad Wolf: On a brown sweatshirt, create ears with felt on the top of the hood and fangs surrounding the face of the hood as exemplified in the dinosaur costume. Attach googly eyes or cut eyes out of felt. -Shark: On a gray or light blue sweatshirt, attach googly eyes and felt teeth to the hood as illustrated in the dinosaur costume. In addition,
be sure to add a fin to the back. -Octopus: On a dark blue, black or purple hoodie, add six more arms with felt or another fabric, googly eyes and suction cups (available at a hardware store) as suckers. -Spider: On a brown or black hoodie, attach eight googly eyes to the hood, fangs and six more arms. -Monsters: Make your own monster combining any of the previously mentioned costume ideas. Fangs, tentacles and eight eyes perhaps?
Unique twist on a classic: Vegan pumpkin cornbread INGREDIENTS: 1 box Jiffy Cornbread Mix (or 1 cup of flour + 1/2 cup cornmeal) 3/4 cup applesauce 1/2 cup pumpkin puree 1/4 cup sugar A few pinches of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and pumpkin pie spice or all spice YIELDS: 12 small muffins or 8 large muffins PREPARATION TIME: 10 minutes COOK TIME: 15-20 minutes DIRECTIONS: STEP ONE: Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
STEP TWO: Beat applesauce and pumpkin puree in a large mixing bowl. STEP THREE: Add sugar and spices to puree. Beat until smooth. STEP FOUR: Add box of Jiffy Cornbread Mix and beat until mostly smooth. Cornbread will have some lumps no matter how much mixing you do. STEP FIVE: Divide between 12 muffin tins or a loaf pan. STEP SIX: Bake for 15-18 minutes or until the muffins begin to brown. Because they are vegan, they may not rise or look as fully cooked as traditional recipes. STEP SEVEN: Cool and enjoy with molasses, honey, peanut butter, butter, Nutella, jam or preserves.
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