Whether your costume is a generic slut, subtle pop-culture reference, or Drew Faust, send in your photos!

Prize:
1st place -$50 to b.good burgers and international fame. Delicious!
2nd place – Not a winner
3rd place – Nobody remembers

Deadline:
November 1st, 7:00pm

Send submissions to thehvoicemail@gmail.com. The winners will be announced November 2nd.

Why are there so many things going on this weekend? Because 1) It’s Halloween. 2) Midterms and papers are over for the most part, so drop those books and go rage or whatever it is you do. There’s a ton of stuff going on so: NO EXCUSES.

The Grind Fests:

Sweet ‘N Nasty
Friday, October 30, 10pm-2am
Adams House Dining Hall
Tickets: $5 beforehand, $7 the night of the party, $4 for Adams Residents
“Free erotic goodie bags for the first 50 people on line for the dance.”

Heaven & Hell
Currier Tenman and Treehouse
Saturday, 10pm

Cultural Stuff:

Eternal Jamnation
by the Veritones and Opportunes
Sanders Theatre
Sunday, 7-9pm
Tickets: $7 w/ ID

PANDEMONIUM
by Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company
Adams Pool Theatre
Friday @ 7:30 pm, Saturday-Sunday @ 2:00 pm
Tickets: $5
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Even Fido can be racist this season!

Okay. So we all got this email:

Dear Harvard, As we approach the Halloween weekend, Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) would like to urge Harvard University students, staff and faculty to think critically about their costume choice. While some look forward to the annual Halloween festivities many people brace themselves for the recurring parade of Harvard students in culturally insensitive costumes whether it be the quintessential Pocahontas or Indian Squaw or the hypersexualized Geisha just to name a few.

And for those of you who didn’t have the patience to read the entire thing, we sympathize… kinda. Except we read it in its entirety out of sincere love for you and because they made us feel really, really guilty. Here is a paragraph-by-paragraph summary of its content:

• Wearing costumes that culturally appropriate is RACIST. It’s like wearing blackface, you ass. Also, your hipster Minnetonka Moccasins are tacky.
• Traditional dress ≠ costume. Traditional dress = an outfit.
• Think of the children….the Native American children.
• You can’t count your crummy costume as “honoring” Native Americans, but you can do your part on Sunday, the first day of Native American Heritage Month, by schoolin’ your racist ass.
• A paragraph on the interwoven histories of Native Americans and their contributions to the United States and Harvard University that we so love.
• “If people take the time to learn about other cultures and to get to know the Native American students at Harvard perhaps they would realize that we are not a costume. We are Harvard. And we have been since 1655.” (Sorry, that’s sort of hard to gist.)

Now, we understand the message but a picture is worth a thousand words isn’t it? Here are several long emails worth of pictures plus some controversy, after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »

Okay,  so apparently, despite the fact that Halloween is Saturday, Halloween will begin early in Cambridge with a “Monster Mash” parade in the Square and lots of mimes and people in costumes performing for your enjoyment. The target audience is admittedly for the “I think I’m ready to get out of diapers” crowd, but if you click here you can scrounge out some sweet deals compliments of Halloween that are currently going on. For example, Baskin Robbins has Haunted House cupcakes. I don’t know how that works, but I want to climb in one and eat my way out. If that’s not your thing, Curious George is making an appearance in the Square to read to you and the kiddies. The festivities begin at 4 p.m. and will wind down around 8 p.m. I would recommend wearing your most scantily clad costume to create an interesting juxtaposition with all of the kids dressed as Winnie the Pooh. ETC.

They GLOW in the DARK.

Noice received a lovely invite from HUBSS today to a Halloween Social, featuring free BerryLine and…bioluminescent dinoflagellates?!

First thoughts:

Free BerryLine = Yessss.
Our own flask of bioluminescent dinoflagellates = WHAT IS THAT.
HUBSS = WHAT IS THIS.

For the rest of you non-sciencey types out there, dinoflagellates are tiny alien-looking wrigglers of horror. Okay fine, that definition is a failure. So let’s go to the trusty Wikipedia:

“The dinoflagellates are a large group of flagellate protists. Most are marine plankton, but they are common in fresh water habitats as well. They make up the largest group of eukaryotic algae aside from the diatoms.”

HUBSS is the Harvard Undergraduate Biological Sciences Society. Major props to them for bringing these glowing microbes of terror to the general Harvard undergrad population. For your own flask of glowy wriggly things, check out Ticknor Lounge this Friday from 7-9pm.

Halloween will be upon us in only two weeks, and if you’re anything like 95% of the people I’ve talked to in the last week, midterms and papers have frazzled you far beyond the point of thinking about things like costumes (or sleep, or joy and happiness…). To help you out, we’ve come up with a few ideas to help you out with costume design:

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