By RINDY METCALF
News Editor

Tech students may be too old for trick-or-treating, but they are sure to find some frightening fun this week whether they stay in or go out.

Those opting to stay in this All Hallows Eve may hit the local movie rental store for a night filled with petrifying films.

Kristy Cannon, store manager at Blockbuster, located at 1516 N. Trenton St., said in the five years she has worked for Blockbuster, students seem to come back year after year for the classics. “[‘Nightmare on Elm Street’], [‘Child’s play’] and ‘Halloween’ are the main ones that will rent the best,” Cannon said. “Students just follow the cult classics.” Cannon said students rent horror films on Halloween so they can “turn off the lights, have fun with friends and scare the crap out of each other.”

Cannon said horror flick fans are already preparing for their night of terror that will compel them sleep with the lights on, by checking up on the most highly anticipated films such as the “Dawn of the Dead” remake. Erinton Savoie, a freshman finance major, said his favorite movies are “Friday the 13th” and the newer version of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

Savoie said ever since he was little, “Friday the 13th” gave him that indescribable feeling of horror, and he said he can now relate that feeling to the remake of the film that chronicles the brutal slayings of five teenagers in Texas. “It’s just scary,” Savoie said. “Just the feeling of being so isolated and your friends being killed one by one by a psycho.” For those who don’t want to simply watch a horror unfold, a variety of community events will attract ghouls and goblins on the hunt for a little Halloween mischief this week.

Tech athletics kicked off Halloween with the 5th Annual Halloween Carnival Monday at J.C. Love baseball field. The sports teams manned booths that provided face-painting, bobbing for apples and much more.

The Chamber of Commerce will put on a Fall Carnival and Chili Cook-off from 6 to 8:30 p.m. today at the Ruston Civic Center, located at 401 N. Trenton St., with the help of members of Tech’s chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity. Will Erwin, commander of the Sigma Nus and a junior business major, said his fraternity will participate in the carnival to provide community service.v “We will help out in four twohour shifts,” Erwin said. “We’ll take a bunch of guys up there and run a couple of the booths.” Tonight Russtown Society’s Annual Pumpkin Fest Carnival and Annual Terror on James Street Haunted House will be held. For all the late-nighters, Sundown West Tavern, located at 111 W. Park Ave., will sponsor a costume contest and a band, the Lightening Bugs, Saturday night all for a cover of $5.

For more information, go to the Ruston Convention and visitor’s Bureau Web site at http://rustonlincoln. com.