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Political Science program ranked top-20 most valuable JOSH HIGGINS news reporter

The Virginia Tech department of political science was recently ranked as one of the top-20 most valuable undergraduate degree programs in the nation.

Affordable Colleges Online ranked Tech’s political science department 13th for high returns on investment. The site calculated that Tech students graduating with a degree in political science averaged a 30-year return on investment of $763,700.

The Department Head, Tim Luke, said this was a trend that the department has seen in recent years.

“Both students and parents are interested in seeing what the advantage of studying at this school and that school in A-discipline versus B-discipline,” Luke said. “The results were not terribly surprising because we’ve seen comparable studies in the past couple of years.”

According to Luke, the university has also received rankings regarding educational value of degree from PayScale. com, which ranked Tech 24th overall in salary potential, citing starting salaries of $51,700 and mid-career salaries of $94,200. More specifically, political science graduates in general, according to

“

The results were not terribly surprising because we’ve seen comparable studies in the past couple of years” Tim Luke Department Head

PayScale, saw a 91.7 percent salary increase from starting to mid-career.

In addition, Affordable Colleges Online ranked the university fift h overall in the country in affordable colleges with high returns, falling behind Georgia Tech, the State University of New York at New Paltz, the University of Virginia and Texas A&M. Fellow Virginia school William and Mary ranked just behind Tech at sixth.

Larry Hincker, associate vice president of university relations, expressed praise of the political science department’s new ranking.

“We get a lot of these rankings, and it’s gratifying that we see programs that normally wouldn’t get a ranking because normally they are ranking schools,” Hincker said. see RANKED / page two

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Hokies play dress up for ALS Awareness

BY JACOB EMERT | sports editor

It’s an uncommon sight, watching a baseball game in which Michael Jackson pitches to a gorilla, who flies out to Mario in right field.

But Monday night that was the scene at English Field. The Virginia Tech baseball team ditched their uniforms and donned costumes for the second annual ALS Awareness Halloween Game.

The event was created last year by former Hokies head coach Pete Hughes, who saw the devastating effects of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) firsthand while coaching at Boston College.

“We worked hard the whole fall. This is a nice little thing to end on, a little treat for us,” said senior pitcher Brad Markey.

“We’re goofing off, but it’s for a good cause: ALS awareness.

People need to know what that is and how bad it is. This game is just to lighten everyone’s experience and it’s for the fans that come out and have fun.”

Markey made his Hokies debut last season after transferring from Georgia Tech, going 5-4 with a 4.90 ERA. His ERA took a heavy hit after a dreadful March, in which he allowed 28 earned runs over four starts.

Aside from the rough stretch in the middle of the season, Markey, who was disguised Monday as Zoro, cape and all, pitched well in 2012 and will be a large factor on a staff that lost its other two weekend starters.

Devin Burke and Joe Mantiply, who now pitch in the Colorado Rockies and Detroit Tigers farm systems respectively, combined for a 17-4 record last year for the Hokies.

“It’s always tough to replace the pitching, because proven winners on the mound are invaluable,” said fi rst year head coach Pat Mason, who traded in his Hokies uni-

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form for a Captain America getup.

“There are so many ways to score runs in baseball. In the past couple years we’ve really been built on that 3-run homer, but we can still figure out ways to manufacture, score runs, do all that. But a winner on the mound is a winner on the mound. You lose guys like Joe and Devin, those guys are tough to replace.”

Sean Keselica, who pitched 31.2 innings last year before being shut down with arm troubles, has had a strong fall and looks to join Markey in a key role on the hill for the Hokies.

While plenty of positions are still welcoming competition for starting spots, including shortstop, third base and the outfield, Mason will count on veterans to provide production and leadership.

Interview process begins for president Corps of Cadets celebrates Halloween THE SEARCH HAS BEGUN TREVOR PENKWITZ news staff writer

vt Presidential Search CAMERON AUSTIN news editor

The Presidential Search Committee met on Tuesday afternoon to update the public on the search process.

The meeting, which lasted approximately five minutes, was to inform the public that within the next 15 days, the committee will begin interviewing presidential candidates.

Alan Grant, dean of the

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, announced that the interviews will take place at “an undisclosed time and an undisclosed location.”

This comes over four weeks after the last Presidential Search Committee meeting, which focused on gauging what the public wanted in a university president.

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The Corps of Cadets has many timehonored traditions. One such tradition will take place this afternoon on the Upper Quad. Stick or Treat occurs every year on Halloween, and will take place this year on Wednesday in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Skipper.

Traditionally for Stick or Treat, cadets hold a formation on the Upper Quad in Halloween costumes.

Freshmen in each company coordinate to come up with matching costume ideas that are judged by the Deputy Commandants. Previous years have featured European knights, lumberjacks, Waldos and video game characters, among others.

After the formation, cadets return to their dorms and the trick or treat-

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ing commences. Upperclassmen get one free pass at each freshman’s room on their hallway. After that, they must complete challenges in order to get more candy, which can range from eating unusual foods to performing humorous tasks.

“Last year, we let the upperclassmen choose between eating a jalapeno or a packet of wet cat food to get extra candy,” said Anthony Carella, a sophomore in the Corps. Another sophomore, Catherine Burgin, had several cadets walk like ducks and quack down the hallway to get an extra handful.

According to Peter Nettekoven, this semester’s Regimental Commander, “Stick or Treat is a great tradition that allows cadets to celebrate Halloween while promoting unity and pride in the regiment.”

The origin of Stick or Treat in the

Corps remains a mystery, as no documents discussing it directly are in the archives or special collections.

It is believed that Stick or Treat has been around since at least the early twentieth century, when sophomores would take part in Sophomore Nights, where each class tried to pull off pranks that were better than the year before. Sophomore Nights occurred the in the days leading up to Halloween, which is why it is commonly believed Stick or Treat has been around since then.

Cadets will start arriving on the Upper Quad at 4:45 p.m., and the formation will start at 5 p.m. All are welcome to attend the formation, but may only enter the dorms with a cadet escort.

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Center for the Arts Ranked: Political science a valued degree hosts Halloween “ technology event from page one

MATT MINOR news staff writer

The Center for the Arts continues its grand opening week tonight with an event called “Tech or Treat,” a free, familyfriendly event aimed at engaging children and demonstrating the spookier side of STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math.

Held in The Cube, a specially designed black box theater within the cutting-edge Center for the Arts building, and organized by the Institute for Creativity, Art and Technology (ICAT), the event will put on display some of the more impressive areas research areas that Virginia Tech professors and students have embarked on.

“At ICAT we have three main missions: education, research and engagement,” said Adam Soccolich, operations coordinator for the Institute. “This event helps to bring all three together by combining kids’ curiosity along with their

enjoyment of Halloween.”

There, visitors can experience technologies like the ‘Labyrinth,’ a spatially– focused feature that will utilize laser-light geometric shapes in an attempt to disorient, which was designed by Paola Zellner from the School of Architecture and Design and Tom Martin from the department of electrical & computer science.

Many other features will focus on different specializations and allow hands-on experience for children, including video game technologies like the Xbox Kinect and the Wii. “We really feel that we achieved a balance between collaboration, work and research with the preparation of this event,” Soccolich said.

Tech or Treat is free and open to the public.

Doors will open at 5 p.m. and last until 8 p.m.

“But in this case, they ranked the department, and it’s gratifying to see a department recognized for basically academic excellence. It’s giving us a value ranking, saying this is going to be your return on investment.”

However, Hincker said the methodology is important when looking at these rankings.

The Affordable College Online ranking system considered four-year in-state tuition less than $40,000 at public and private nonprofit schools that are fully accredited institutions. In addition, the survey used PayScale.com data to determine 30-year net-return on investment, which is pub-

lished annually.

The PayScale.com salary report considers only college graduates possessing bachelor’s degree that are employed full-time, aren’t on active duty in the military and must be paid with either an hourly wage or an annual salary. Th is data was collected from a sample of between 100 to several thousand alumni, depending on the size of the university.

Hincker said these ratings can be skewed, citing that the PayScale survey considered out-of-state cost of tuition, even though only about 25 percent of the student body is from out of state.

Luke said that much of the success of political science graduates has much

I think (these rankings) are advantageous because obviously most people think the only thing happening at Virginia Tech is ‘tech.’”

Tim Luke Department Head

to do with residing in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

“One thing that is quite clear is that — for better or for worse — one of the main employers in the commonwealth is the government,” Luke said. “The federal government, the commonwealth’s government, county and city governments, as well as the military are a

large base of employers in this state.”

Luke also said the rankings illuminate the strength of the humanities, the social sciences and the arts at a technical university.

“I think just as (the University of) Virginia is getting stronger in engineering and William and Mary has strong science departments, Virginia Tech has very strong programs in the social sciences, humanities and the arts,” Luke said.

“I think (these rankings) are advantageous because obviously most people think the only thing happening at Virginia Tech is ‘tech.’”

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Healthcare.gov official apologizes; website problem ‘took us by surprise’ TONY PUGH MCT Campus

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Downtown Blacsburg offers concerts, dance parties, and trick-or-treating at a variety of restaurants and venues to celebrate the day of the dead.

Thursday, Oct. 31 Haunted Halloween House 4-6 p.m. at Creekmore Law Firm All ages. Featuring live animals.

Downtown Blacksburg Trick or Treat 4-5:30 p.m. at participating businesses downtown. All ages.

Tricks & Treats with Old Man Kelly 7-9 p.m. at Gillie’s. No door cover.

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong with Woodwork 9 p.m.-1 a.m. at Sycamore Deli. $10 cover. 18+.

The Broadcast Halloween Blackout Party 10 p.m.-2 a.m. at Frank’s Bar. $8 cover.

Gillie’s Late Night Dance Party with DJ Manndibles. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. at Gillie’s.

LGBT Fundraiser. $5 for ages 18-20. $3 for 21+.

Friday, Nov. 1 Rocky Horror Picture Show 10 p.m.-midnight at Commonwealth Ballroom. $3/ticket. Water guns for $1. Glow sticks for $0.50.

Halloween Party feat. Urth performing Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti.

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Halloween Re-Mix Costume Party ft. Bluhax & Trevor Young. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. at Gillie’s.

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The Obama administration’s lead official on the problem-plagued health insurance marketplace apologized at a congressional hearing Tuesday for its poor performance but said the setback “took us by surprise.”

In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the inability of the Healthcare.gov website to establish individual user accounts and handle the initial volume of users shortly after open enrollment began on Oct. 1 “was not anticipated” and “did not show up in testing.”

“To the millions of Americans who’ve attempted to use Healthcare.gov to shop and enroll in health coverage, I want to apologize to you that the website has not worked as well as it should,” Tavenner testified.

“We know how desperately you need affordable coverage. I want to assure you that Healthcare.gov can and will be fi xed.”

The hearing offered the first opportunity for Congress to formally question an administration official about the botched website rollout.

Tavenner repeatedly refused to provide information about how many people have been able to sign up for coverage on the website, telling committee members those numbers would be released in mid-November.

As with most oversight hearings that deal with any aspect of the Affordable Care Act, Tuesday’s session often drifted into emotional political arguments about the merits of the contentious health law and the intent of Republicans to kill it.

“The flaw is not the web-

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid administrator Marilyn Tavenner testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee regarding the toubled launch of the federal insurance exhange. site,” said Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas. “The flaw is the law itself.”

“The problems don’t stop at the technical failures of the website,” added Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas.

“The real problem stems from the colossal failure to deliver what the law promised to the American people.”

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a veteran of the civil rights movement, likened the Republican attacks on the health law to those of Southern lawmakers in the 1950s who supported “nullification” and “massive resistance” efforts to oppose federal desegregation laws.

In a dais-slapping rant, Lewis accused the GOP of a “deliberate and systematic attempt” to keep

people from getting health care.

“Some of us will not stand for it,” he said. “We will stand up and fight for what is right; for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right, not a privilege.”

At one point, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., rose from his seat, pointed directly at Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., and began loudly questioning the veracity of Griffin’s claim that House Republicans had presented a viable alternative to the Affordable Care Act. “After what we’ve gone through in the last three and a half years, you can sit there and say that you had a legitimate alternative?” Pascrell said incredulously. “We’ve gone through 44 votes, 48 votes now, of you trying to dismantle this legislation.

You call that cooperation? I don’t.”

Tavenner confi rmed that officials at the Department of Health and Human Services badly underestimated the volume of users who would try to access the marketplace website on Oct. 1. She said pre-launch stress and load testing simulated usage that was projected to be three times the volume of users on the Medicare.gov website.

But more than 2.8 million people visited the Healthcare.gov website on Oct. 1. That was three times the traffic to the site after it was redesigned in June and seven times more users than had ever been on the Medicare.gov website at any one time in history, Tavenner told reporters on Oct. 1, the opening day.

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Campaign promotes abortion discourse O

ne in three women will have an abortion in her lifetime in the United States.

Abortion: we legislate it, define and redefine it, criminalize and demonize it — we regulate it. We talk about it as if it is an alien concept, as if it were an idea that doesn’t affect us or anyone we know. But one in three women will have an abortion in her lifetime in the United States.

Globally, that statistic is one in two women.

If abortion is so common, why do we stigmatize women who choose it as a reproductive health option?

Why do we silence women by making them internalize society’s message that by choosing abortion, they’ve done something wrong?

Many health advocates believe this stigma is related to the growing attacks on women’s right to choose.

The amount of anti-abortion legislation being passed in the United States is at an all-time high. According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2011 alone there were more than 92 antiabortion laws passed in 24 states.

When we talk about abortion, we don’t talk about the people who will be affected by its legislation and stigmatization, and we defi nitely don’t hear narratives of people who have been there.

Society likes to establish a “hierarchy” of acceptable situations where abortion is permissible, such as in the cases of rape and incest. But in reality, we can’t box every woman’s experience and label it neatly.

America likes to stigmatize women who have had abortions by labeling them things like “irresponsible” and “selfish” and to silence women by shaming them.

The 1 in 3 Campaign is looking to challenge this pervasive culture of shame and stigma by bringing awareness to the fact that abortion is more common than most Americans realize.

The 1 in 3 Campaign is a grassroots movement challenging the way America frames the discourse regarding abortion by sharing the stories of women who have had them. Through discussion-based education and storytelling, the 1 in 3 Campaign is making people think about the circumstances under which women exercise their right to choose. Spoiler alert: we can’t categorize, or prioritize one woman’s situation over another’s.

These are real women. This isn’t just a number. These are mothers, young professionals and students. Every time a piece of abortion-restricting legislation passes, every time an anti-choice group stands outside of a Planned Parenthood with grotesque images of miscarriages and signs that promote shaming messages, we are failing onethird of our community’s women.

Now, women are reclaiming their voices, defending their rights, and speaking out about a very personal choice that 1 in 3 women will make.

Those behind the 1 in 3 Campaign will not stop until abortion is framed in the United States for exactly what it is: a common and safe medical procedure. Women deserve a safe, empowering and supportive space.

During the 1 in 3 Week of Action, collegiate pro-choice activists from around the country will table, rally, educate and speak out against the stigma and shame women face regarding abortion.

Womanspace will be tabling outside McBryde Hall today.

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Popular breast cancer charity engages in unsavory practices S

omething about the month of October always seemed very orange to me. Whether because of the changing of leaves or the abundance of pumpkins, I’ve always associated that color with October.

But thanks to Nancy G. Brinker, CEO and founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, October has now become linked to the color pink.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the color pink, however I do find the fact that the color has been trademarked and sold back to us rather distasteful.

In 1982, Brinker founded the charity organization after a promise made to her dying sister that one day she would find the cure for breast cancer. As of 2010, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has raised over $1.5 billion toward that goal.

The organization itself is admirable and without question has spread the awareness of breast cancer throughout the entire world. It has done this while maintaining Charity Navigator’s highest rating for any non-profit organization — however their marketing tactics are questionable.

Not only has the organization trademarked the phrase, “For the cure,” preventing any other awareness group from using that phrase, but they also establish corporate partnerships and create exclusive

contracts in which the money raised doesn’t necessarily always go to cancer research.

Many of these corporate partnerships will label their products during the month of October with the infamous pink ribbon claiming that proceeds go to the foundation for cancer research. While this is true, many companies put caps on the amount that they are willing to donate, and once that cap is reached the rest of the money goes straight into their profits.

This blatant exploitation of human sympathies is rather appalling and borderline fraudulent, and while Brinker can’t take all the blame, her organization has the power to prevent companies from using these tactics by simply not allowing her brand to be displayed on their products.

But why would she? She’s making over $600,000 a year in base salary, not to mention money she receives from appearances.

According to Charity Navigator’s president, Ken Berger, “This pay package is way outside the norm. It’s about a quarter of a million dollars more than what we see for charities of this size. This is more than the head of the Red Cross is making for an organization that is one-tenth the size of the Red Cross.”

Following the money and exploitation further, we see the NFL using

the color in an arguably worse way.

For a few games during the month of October, NFL players are required to wear pink gear.

This gear is then taken and auctioned off with the proceeds going toward cancer research. Sounds awesome right?

This sounds like a pretty clever idea until you realize that only a little over 8 percent of the proceeds are actually donated.

With all this evidence it’s hard for me to justify donating any money to these organizations, especially when we’re not seeing tangible results after years and years of doing this.

Moreover, according to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, a man is 35 percent more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than a woman is with breast cancer, yet I don’t see billions of dollars going towards that or other more fatal cancers.

The next time you decide to donate money toward breast cancer research, ask yourself if it’s really worth it. Find out where the money is going, and don’t get fooled by exploitative, albeit absolutely genius, marketing tactics, because that is all this is.

MARCUS WILLIAMS - regular columnist - senior - economics

Women’s athletics deserve more support, recognition We

tell our children that they can do anything they put their minds to, yet when it comes to athletics there are a lot more challenges that face female athletes than their male counterparts.

Our society does not respect female athletes enough to support them at the ticket office or on television. Female athletes are perceived as weaker, less talented versions of male athletes.

Title IX has done an incredible job of providing girls and women with equal opportunities to play sports in high school and college, yet it isn’t being reflected through fan support.

The U.S. Soccer Federation celebrated its centennial this summer, and to highlight it there was a “friendly” held between the U.S. men’s national team and Germany.

In the contest, the team that didn’t get recognition was the team that has accomplished much more international success: the U.S. women’s team.

The U.S. women’s national team is tied for most World Cup wins by any nation (two), has earned four gold medals and has set the record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1 in FIFA rankings.

Last year the NCAA women’s basketball final only grossed 3.2 million viewers while the men’s championship game held the night before raked in 23.4 million viewers.

Here at Virginia Tech, the Rec Sports rules give women more points than men for every basket, goal and touchdown they score. That rule just fuels the fire. The system is set up to disrespect and undercut women’s abilities when compared to men’s.

Women’s games, in many cases whether soccer, basketball, hockey are perceived to be not as “good” as the men’s games, citing reasons that include the speed of play being slower, women’s teams not being able to dunk and the reduced emphasis on attending games as a social activity.

Instead, women’s athletics often stick to the fundamentals, with teams focusing on passing and movement off the ball to create greater opportunities for the team to find success.

In women’s basketball games, the emphasis is on motion offense with picks and back door cuts to create openings rather than one person dribbling the entire opposing team.

For women’s soccer it is about possession and movement off the ball to generate scoring opportunities.

In women’s lacrosse and ice hockey, checking is not allowed (although women didn’t ask for that rule), which forces athletes to become better players. Making a good defensive stop isn’t all about checking the opposing player out of possession.

One of the greatest basketball coaches in college today is Geno Auriemma, the head coach of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team. He has said, “I don’t coach women, I coach basketball players.”

Anson Dorrance, the most successful women’s soccer coach in the country as head coach at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been successful because he encourages his players to be aggressive. Mia Hamm said “I grew up always good at sports, but being a girl, I was never allowed to feel as good about it as guys were.

My toughness wasn’t celebrated.

But then I came here, and it was OK to want to be the best,” talking about her experience with the UNC team.

We live in a culture in which women’s perspectives and abilities are often undermined because they are different. But since when does different mean worse?

In our society we need to start accepting things for what they are and not what we expect them to be. It is the nuances of women’s athletics that are interesting and make them just as exciting as men’s.

CAROLINE KELLY - regular columnist - sophomore - english

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However, if you don’t have the budget or the time to dedicate to completing your look, check out these simple D.I.Y. makeup tips for both girls AND guys. Most of these looks can be accomplished with the makeup you or your friends have laying around.

1. A simple black, smoky eye can help you achieve any look from a zombie to a vampire to a sultry witch to a punk rocker. To accomplish this, apply a thick line of eyeliner at your lash line. Next, use a smudge eye shadow brush to blend the liner from your lash line up to your crease. Apply a black eye shadow from the lash line, blending up to the crease again to deepen the effect. Then, use a dark brown shadow to blend the harsh black color in your crease, resulting in the desired smoky eye. If preferred, use a light eye shadow (the lightest color in the palette) to highlight your brow bone.

2. Highlighting and contouring is your best friend. This is what every actress in Hollywood does to achieve a perfect, sculpted face. In this case, contouring will be heavily used to create a "dead look" — think zombie or vampire. First, suck in your cheeks to create an inset (also known as the fish-face) and apply a dark brown shadow, bronzer, or contouring powder in that curve.

Next, add that same contouring item of choice to your temples, jaw line and on each side of your nose. This will make your face appear sunken in, similar to a zombie. If you really want to go all out, you can take a small eye shadow brush and line the outer rim of your mouth, making it appear smaller and parched.

To highlight, use a highlighting powder, pen or concealer that is three shades lighter than your skin tone and apply to the bridge of your nose, between your eyes, under your eyes and cheek bones. You can use your finger to blend into your skin. Highlighting with a lighter shade will make your face look paler.

3. Finally for lip color, deep plums and reds have been big beauty essential for the fall. If you haven’t already added to your collection, then pick it up right away at your local drugstore. Not only do these colors look good on every skin tone, it gives a sultry, mysterious-

5 Scary movies worth watching October 30, 2013

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KATIE WHITE lifestyles staff writer

Every year sees a new wave of ill-advised remakes and uninspired sequels churned out by Hollywood studies.

Horror films seem to be particularly prone to never-ending franchises of progressively poor quality.

However, there are a few scary movies out there that provide genuine frights.

This Halloween, avoid freezing to death in your costume and instead stay in for one of the top 10 scary movies.

10. Suspiria

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For all you who like to indulge in Halloween festivities, you can also look to YouTube beauty gurus for more ideas, like Michelle Phan’s “Tim Burton Look” or for less scary ideas, Kandee Johnson’s “How to Look Like Flo the Progressive Lady.”

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This 1977 film from legendary director Dario Argento is a classic of the Italian “giallo” horror fi lm genre.

“Suspiria” tells the story of an American ballet dancer who travels to Germany to study at a prestigious dance academy. However, she slowly discovers that the academy is actually run by a coven of witches.

“Suspiria” is full of blood and violence, providing numerous scares. But it’s also a gorgeous movie with beautiful colors and delicate sequencing. It deserves a spot on any scary movie list for the sheer amount of blood.

9. 28 Days Later

“28 Days Later” stars Cillian Murphy as a man who wakes up from a coma in an abandoned hospital in London, only to discover that there has been a complete societal collapse as the result of a highly infectious virus that turns people into rage-filled monsters. This was the first movie to feature “fast zombies,” a terrifying departure from the tradition of slow, stumbling zombies.

8. Night of the Living Dead

From 1968, “Night of the Living Dead” is the original zombie movie. Legendary director George A. Romero’s story focuses on a group of

survivors barricaded in a farmhouse, trying to fight off a horde of living dead. These might have been the slow zombies, but they are still absolutely terrifying. Th is fi lm spawned several sequels and inspired horror filmmakers for decades after.

7. Evil Dead

“Evil Dead” has a simple premise: five college students camping in a cabin in the woods accidentally release demons and spirits from a cursed, ancient book. One by one, they are hunted down by the demonic spirits and brutally killed. “Evil Dead” was the fi rst feature fi lm from director Sam Raimi and set a high standard for bloody gore in horror films.

6. Halloween

The first slasher film to be a huge box office hit, “Halloween” has had an indelible mark on Hollywood horror movies since its release in 1978. There are numerous sequels, each seemingly more ridiculous than the last, which makes it easy to forget how genuinely scary the original “Halloween” is. The film introduced audiences to the character Michael Myers and launched the career of Jamie Lee Curtis.

5. Poltergeist

“They’re here” has to be one of the scariest phrases ever uttered in a horror movie.

“Poltergeist” is the story of a family whose home is infected by evil spirits that abduct the youngest daughter. The movie might have less violence or gore than most horror movies, but it is nonetheless terrifying. The rumor of a curse on the film after the premature death of a few people associated with the movie only adds to its scare factor.

4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

One of numerous stories inspired by real-life murderer Ed Gein, “Texas Chainsaw

Halloween traditions date back 2,000 years KATIE WHITE lifestyles staff writer

Halloween is a complex holiday, dating back over 2,000 years.

Combining ancient pagan rituals with the best of American consumerism, Halloween, or “Hallowe’en” in older spellings, has become a grab bag of old traditions with new spins.

Halloween is commonly traced back to the Celtic holiday of “Samhain” (pronounced “sow-en” or “soween”), which was celebrated more than 2,000 years ago.

Little is known definitively about the rituals associated with Samhain, but it has been determined that the holiday marked the end of summer

and start of winter.

It was thought that on this day the dead returned to Earth as ghosts.

The Celts celebrated this event with huge bonfi res, where their Druid priests would ritualistically sacrifice crops and animals to the gods.

When the Romans conquered the Celtic people, they brought with them two festivals which became combined with the native holiday of Samhain.

The fi rst was the festival of Feralia, a celebration in late October for the passing of the deal. The second was the festival for Pomona, Roman goddess of fruit — she was often associated with the apple, which is likely the

source of the “bobbing for apples” Halloween tradition.

When the Roman Empire fell, Christianity became the dominant force operating on the Celtic people.

In the seventh century Pope Boniface IV named Nov. 1 “All Saints Day.” According to history.com, some theorize that this was partly in effort to replace the Celtic holiday with something associated with the Church.

Th is celebration also was called All-Hallows or AllHallowmas, which came from the Middle English “Alholowmesse,” meaning All Saints Day. This lead to the night before, the 31st of October, being called All-Hallow’s Eve, and thus, “Halloween.”

The practice of dressing in costume for Halloween likely came from another Church holiday.

“All Souls Day,” celebrated on Nov. 2, was created in year 1000 by the Church to commemorate the souls of the dead. On this holiday, people would dress up in costumes and parade.

Trick-or-treating also has an antecedent in All Souls Day with the tradition of “souling,” where people would travel from house to house and offer to say prayers for the dead in exchange for “soul cakes,” a small, round cake traditionally made for All Souls Day. The Jack-O-Lantern and pumpkin carving traditions, however, are much more

recent.

The legend of Jack-OLantern is Irish in origin, and deals with a wicked man named Jack, who, denied entry to both Heaven and Hell in his death, endlessly walks the Earth looking for a place to rest.

His “lantern” was originally a carved-out turnip or potato, but when Irish immigrants made their way to America in the 1840s, the pumpkin became the popular choice.

With bits of tradition that span thousands of years and across continents, Halloween is truly a patchwork holiday for modern times.

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Massacre” tells the story of a group of friends set upon by murderous cannibals. The character "Leatherface" is now instantly recognized and feared.

Thanks to truly impressive amount of violence in the film, it was often censored or banned outright upon release — making it an excellent choice for those wanting a brutal slasher fi lm.

3. The Exorcist

After watching “The Exorcist” you’ll never look at pea soup or a crucifi x the same way. Linda Blair stars as Regan, a young girl who becomes possessed by an ancient demonic spirit.

The fi lm is truly horrifying — it’s more than just cheap scares (although the frights are numerous), but deeply unsettling.

2. The Conjuring

The most recent fi lm on the list, “The Conjuring” was released earlier this year to great critical acclaim. Based on real-life events of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren — the same case that inspired “The Amityville Horror” — this fi lm is full of scares from start to finish.

When a family moves into an isolated new home, they begin to experience strange occurrences, which soon escalate into violent terror.

1. The Ring / Ringu

“The Ring” and its original Japanese version “Ringu” are always near the top of any scary movie list — and for good reason. The story is centered on a disturbing videotape of a mysterious woman, who kills anyone who watches the tape in seven days. Both versions are excellently shot, with the terrifying plotline only heightened by the dark and unnerving atmosphere.

Everyone should see both, but if you’re looking for a scary movie this Halloween, you really can’t go wrong with either.

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Club ice hockey thrives on road trip Capes: Baseball Virginia Tech’s club ice hockey team returns to Blacksburg with a 9-2-0 record after this weekend’s trip up north, where it grabbed some big road wins.

Over the past month, the team has played 11 games, seven of them on the road.

With their most recent stint on the road, the team faced some of the toughest teams they will meet this season.

The task of playing these more challenging teams has helped contribute to the team’s success.

“I’d rather play a team like Towson and split a series with them than go out and play (University of Virginia) and beat them 9-1,” said junior Max Grande.

After splitting two series with Towson’s Division I team and Liberty’s Division II team, the Hokies took victories from St. Joseph’s University, the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Rider University on their own ice.

As of right now, the Hokies are ranked seventh in the Mid-

Atlantic Collegiate Hockey Association, but when the updated rankings are released later this week, observers favor Tech to rise to the top of the poll.

The team has a history of falling to the mental and physical challenges that accompany away games, which contributed to the majority of last year’s losses.

“Historically, we’ve kind of blown up on the road a little bit,” Grande said.

This year, however, playing on the road has done nothing but contribute to the team’s success.

“It’s tough to travel and then play a game on the same day … it’s good to get all the guys together and be together for 48 hours straight … it builds the team chemistry,” said junior Alec Burgman.

The team crams into 12-passenger vans to make the trip to away games, which sometimes exceed five hours on the road.

The Hokies made the drive up to Maryland three weeks

ago to face two MACH South division rivals, the University of Maryland and UMBC. After a slow start to the Maryland, the Hokies bounced back in the second period, scoring two goals to take a 3-0 lead. The defense then shut it down in the third period, preventing Maryland from scoring any goals.

“I was kind of worried that we were going to overlook Maryland on Friday night,” said senior goalie Walker Detweiler.

The win launched the team into their Saturday matinee with UMBC with confidence.

A sizeable turnout of Tech fans helped the team look past UMBC’s rowdy crowd and band, allowing the Hokies another win.

“It’s always a real low-scoring, physical game … UMBC was a huge win,” Burgman said.

Those two wins kept the momentum going for the following week’s series with Liberty’s D-II team.

“I don’t think they’ve really been tested yet … but it’s always fun to play Liberty,” Grande said.

The Hokies came out victorious on their own ice in the first game of the series, but fell short on Saturday night after making the trip up to Lynchburg to play Liberty.

“I think we’re still a pretty confident group,” Burgman said. “We have to work out a few things in practice this week and put the last game behind us. We bounced back from the Towson loss, and I think we will bounce back from this one.”

The Hokies did just that.

Last weekend, the team traveled to New Jersey to face Rider and to Philadelphia to play St. Joseph’s the following night. The Hokies returned to Blacksburg with two more wins under their belt, locking in a high-ranking in the MACH South division.

The team hopes to continue its success over the next few weeks.

“You have to take each game going in as a new game … it doesn’t really matter what we did in the past, because if we’re thinking ‘Oh, these guys beat these guys, and we beat them, so we should win,’ that doesn’t work in hockey,” Grande said.

Th is weekend, Tech will return to the Roanoke Civic Center to take on Maryland and St. Joseph’s on Friday and Saturday night, respectively.

The puck drops at 7:30 p.m., and admission is free with a Hokie Passport.

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Junior catcher Mark Zagunis looks to be one of those leaders. Zagunis was one of three Hokies to start all 62 games last year and after batting .344 in 2012, he hit .343 last year. He saw an increase in many offensive statistics, including doubles, triples and home runs, but now, with vacancies left by the likes of Chad Pinder, Andrew Rash and Tyler Horan, he figures to be the primary source of pop in the lineup.

“We lost a lot of great players last year,” Zagunis said, after ditching the head of his gorilla costume.

“They’re going to be tough to replace, but we’re going to be a different style team than last year. We had a lot of power hitters and a lot of good players still playing at the next level, but I think we’ll be OK. We just got to fill some holes and keep working hard.”

More than just the tangibles, the Hokies will look to Zagunis to be a leader in 2013. And he’s ready to accept the role with open arms.

“I definitely have to step up as one of the leaders.

Coach Mason expects it and so do all my teammates.

Having players like Andrew Rash and Chad Pinder in front of me to lead the way

and show me how to be a leader really helped.”

Filling the vacancies left by highly-productive players will not be easy for the Hokies who went 40-22 last year and 15-14 in the ACC, but it’ll be necessary if the Hokies want to go farther than last year.

After reaching the ACC Championship Game and hosting a regional tournament, which Mason said is already helping him on the recruiting trail, the team finally feels they earned the national recognition they deserved all year.

“That’s what you want.

You want to be on a national map, but there is a little more pressure when you do well,” Zagunis said, while moving out of the way of a foul ball hit by a bunny.

“There’s always going to be pressure, but there isn’t a better feeling than being in that ACC Championship Game at Durham or hosting a regional.”

His battery mate echoed the remarks.

“I definitely think hosting got us on the map,” Markey said. “It seemed like earlier no one was saying our name, and we had to host a regional before people realized where Virginia Tech was.”

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