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Thursday, Thur hurs Oct. 30 Student Success Series: Finding Academic Motivation | 4:30 p.m.

S in Wagner Wagn Hall, Room 250. Feeling burnout this late in the semester?

Casey Partridge from the Graduation Office will help you find your academic motivation. This free workshop is a part of the Student Success Series. For more information, please contact Student Learning Center, studentlearning@ou.edu.

FREDtalks: Creativity and the Subconscious | 5:30 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Based on the online popularity of short, informal discussions, FREDtalks are planned to engage visitors with panel speakers on different subjects related to art. In conjunction with the special exhibition, this month’s topic is on creativity and the subconscious. The capacity to be creative is one of the most important functions of the human brain. The speakers will explore the connection between the subconscious and high levels of creativity.

OU Symphony Orchestra | 8 p.m. in Sharp Concert Hall, Cattlett Music Center. Sutton Concert Series and School of Music present OU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Advance purchase tickets: $9 Adult, $5 student and discount at the door: $10.

Saturday, Nov. 1 Wrestling vs OCU/Baker/Shorter College | 9 a.m. at Lloyd Noble Center. Come check out the wrestling team as they kick off their season at the LNC hosting OCU, Baker, and Shorter College! It’s an early morning start but don’t let that stop you from coming by!

Volleyball vs West Virginia | 7 p.m. at McCasland Field House.

The OU Volleyball Team looks to continue a perfect 8-0 start at home this season! With no football in town come pack McCasland and cheer the Sooners on to another victory!

Football at Iowa State Watch Party | TBA at Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Cheer on the Sooners at this FREE watch party, as they take on another Big 12 opponent. Presented by the Union Programming Board, there’s ALWAYS SOMETHING with UPB, upb.ou.edu.

Friday, Oct. 31 UPB Daily Event: Guess the Score | 11:30 a.m. in the First Floor of the Union.

Guess the score for this week’s game against Iowa State for your chance to win a UPB prize pack! There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING with the Union Programming Board, upb.ou.edu.

FREE Movie: ‘22 Jump Street’ | 6, 9 p.m. & Midnight at Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Watch the FREE screenings of this hilarious sequel, as the two cops have to go deep undercover at a local college, before this movie is available on DVD/Blu-ray. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Soccer vs Kansas | 7 p.m. at the OU Soccer Complex. Come out and support the Sooners in their FINAL home game of the season! It will be Senior Night, and you last chance to see several superb OU seniors!

Fuego Friday | 7 p.m. at OU School of Art & Art History’s Ceramics Facility. The OU School of Art & Art History invites you to the 9th annual Fuego Friday which will include ceramic demonstrations and kiln firing events. This event is FREE and open to the public.

Contemporary Dance Oklahoma | 8 p.m. in Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

Contemporary Dance Oklahoma features Limón’s masterwork, “There Is a Time,” based on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, with its visual evocation of the human experience: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Hartel’s dynamic work, “Ashes, Ashes,” explores the power of human tenacity in the face of adversity, while his haunting “Curse of the Wilis” adds seasonal flair. Minter’s newly created work “Stitches,” explores innocence and vulnerability and pulses with the energy and passion of our talented dancers.

Seize the spirit of CDO with this impressive production! Rated PG-13. Runs Oct. 24-Nov. 2.

Sunday, Nov. 2 Matinee: Contemporary Dance Oklahoma | 3 p.m. at Reynolds Performing Arts Center. Watch this matinee performance of Contemporary Dance Oklahoma. Rated PG-13.

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pick your poison This semester at ESCAPE, we’ve tried to pick a theme for each issue that encompasses the activities going on each weekend. However, with so many activities happening this weekend, we couldn’t pick just one.

In this issue, you’ll find a mix of everything from Halloween fun (p. 8) to a governor guide (p. 10). Who says you can’t get crazy this weekend, but also be informed about the upcoming gubernatorial race?

From food trucks (p. 4) to live music (p. 5), the weekend will be full of colorful festivals, so make sure to take a break from the middle-of-semester grind and enjoy Norman and OKC’s best.

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weekend what: day of the dead festival when: 6 to 10 p.m. friday where: walker adams mall

Join Latino Student Life by celebrating Day of the Dead. Experience another culture and have some free fun. what: free movie when: 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and midnight friday where: oklahoma memorial union’s meacham auditorium

Watch a free screening of “22 Jump Street” before it comes out on DVD, presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council. what: 7th annual fuego friday when: 7 to 10 p.m. friday where: Ou ceramics facility

The OU School of Art & Art History invites the public to watch ceramic demonstrations and kiln firing events. Visitors can purchase a pre-made pot they can glaze themselves by contacting Professor Stuart Asprey at stuart@ou.edu before Oct. 31. what: sooners vs. cyclones when: 11 a.m. saturday where: broadcast on fs1

Head to your favorite game-watching spot to watch OU take on Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. what: “month upon a time” when: 4 p.m. saturday where: catlett music center’s pitman recital hall

Watch Broadway veteran Jeff Blumenkrantz perform songs with members of the musical theatre senior class at a free concert.

FOOD TRUCK FRENZY Fifty-one mobile eateries will gather this weekend in OKC for the last time this year dillon hollingsworth | @dillonjames94

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he final H&8th Night Market of the year will take place on Friday at the intersection of N Hudson Avenue and NW 8th Street in midtown Oklahoma City. Fifty-one food trucks are scheduled to line up for the final incarnation of the festival in 2014. Things are set to kick off at 7 p.m., but if the September H&8th was any indication, the event will get going much earlier.

The big night On the last Friday of September crowds of people meandered up and down Hudson street an hour and a half before the event was set to kick off, reading menus and chatting with vendors who were setting up their food trucks in preparation for the big night.

At Off The Hook Seafood & More, Joyce Harris was just arriving. Harris, who co-owns the seafood truck with her husband Cory, was running a little behind after picking up her kids from school.

She stopped at the cheese steak truck next door before making her way over. Off The Hook had a second window facing the neighboring truck, and Harris’ first task of the night was to ask if they would back up and give her truck some space.

“I don’t think they’re too happy about it,” Harris said. “But hey, we all got to be family. Got to work together.”

As the popularity of food trucks has grown in the Oklahoma City area, so has the sense of community that Harris mentioned.

“It’s like a fraternity,” said Glen Franklin, the owner of G’s Chili Company, about the interactions between owners in the budding industry. In September, the Oklahoma Independent Food Truck Association held its first-ever meeting.

The food truck association will serve as a sort of food truck union to keep the trucks on the same page and protect them from business owners or event holders requesting a cut of their profits, Franklin said.

A growing business Franklin’s chili is his passion. His food truck is the most recent vessel he’s used to share that passion with the public. It’s a family recipe that he once sold in grocery stores, but he was forced to stop when the economy tanked in 2008. His daughters are the ones who convinced him to consider a food truck after they attended one of the first H&8th festivals.

“They came home and said, ‘Dad, you need to get a food truck,’”Franklin said.

So Franklin did, and G’s Chili made its debut at the first

TONY RAGLE/THE DAILY Taco Loco sits in a parking lot on 24th street near Highway 9. Food trucks like this one will gather this Friday in Oklahoma City for the final H&8th Night Market of the year.

H&8th of 2014.

The event is now in its fourth year and has grown to draw around 30,000 people.

The constant hum of 48 mobile generators powering 48 mobile eateries combined with the music being pumped through some of the trucks’ speakers and the live performances taking place provided the soundtrack for the evening.

The crowd thickened throughout the night. Long lines at the trucks created roadblocks that halted the flow of foot traffic every 40 feet.

Almost everybody walking around had some type of food in their hand, ranging from tacos to pizza to “All Natural Popsicles.”

The food truck scene in Oklahoma has exploded recently.

Bleu Gartens, the first fixed food truck park in Oklahoma City, opened the night before the September H&8th. As the festival’s season ends on Friday and the weather turns colder, Bleu Gartens will provide a location where folks can continue to get their food truck fix through the winter.

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he Red Doors of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house are more than just a color to accent the tall white columns and window frames. Members all around the nation recognize these doors as a symbol for acceptance.

“The red doors are there to remind us that everyone is welcome,” Reid Corbin, professional writing junior, said.

“It’s our way to show that we’re trying to love our community and the world through our fraternity.”

Using his passions for philanthropy, music and the traditions of the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter, Corbin proposed the idea of a philanthropic event to the rest of his brothers. What began as a project in the works then blossomed into Sigma Phi Epsilon’s first annual Red Door Music Festival.

Hosted by the members of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the festival will begin at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Sigma Phi Epsilon parking lot at 701 College Ave. Seven bands and several food trucks later, the music festival was set in stone. The GO AND DO acts performing will range Red Door Music from an OU student singer/ Festival songwriter to bands who have just graced the stages of When: 4 p.m.

Austin City Limits, including Saturday the indie folk duo Penny and Sparrow.

Where: Sigma Phi Instead of using money Epsilon parking lot, for a date party in the Spring, 701 College Ave. the fraternity members agreed to toss it all into a hat Price: $10 for for a night of tunes. All of students, $15 for the proceeds from the event non-students will benefit Living Water International, a faith-based Info: Tickets can be non-profit organization that purchased online at works to provide clean water ticketstorm.com sources for by using funds to build well sites in developing communities.

Max Tackett, marketing senior and Sigma Phi Epsilon member, said the symbol of the red doors pairs well with the goal for this event that is open to OU students and community members alike.

“We just want to help benefit those who can’t provide for themselves,” Tackett said.

Tackett was first introduced to the organization through a smaller project known as “The Ten Days.” For 10 days participants pledge to give up the soda and coffee and only drink water. Then, saving the money they would have used

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for other drinks, they collect their spare bucks to donate to the clean water initiative.

Ryan Mahon, advertising junior and VP of productions for the event, partnered with Reid to make their big idea a reality. Mahon said their connection with LWI as an organization sprouted from a simple drive to give, but was motivated by the previous successes they’ve seen the red doors are in their fundraising efforts. there to remind us Tackett said the fraternity has that everyone is raised money for Living Water in the past, reaching $3,500. welcome.”

This year, the group hopes to raise more than twice that amount. reid corbin, “I feel like a lot of times you don’t see the results from giving professional writing or donating,” Mahon said. “But junior with Living Water you can actually see how it’s changing lives and making a difference for these people.”

According to Lw’s website, 14,352 water projects have been completed, spanning four continents. The projects can be tracked on their interactive map, where project participants can see where the wells are being built.

Reid and Mahon said they quickly found that the idea of organizing a big event is easier said than done, but they kept their ultimate philanthropy goal in mind to keep them going.

With event planning comes stress, and Mahon said there were times when things felt impossible, but the overall process has been one of trial and error. The planning began in early February for Ried after the members voted in favor of a music festival.

“We’ve failed, succeeded and learned all over,” Mahon said. “But all at once, everything kind of started taking off.”

Mahon said festival-goers can expect a fun, music-filled atmosphere complete with local food and drink vendors.

But aside from the entertainment, event organizers said they are most excited to spread global awareness through the event and help those in need.

“We really want to fire people up with great music and show them that they can make a difference,” Reid said.

Tickets will be available upon entry to the event, or can be purchased from a Sigma Phi Epsilon member ahead of time.

Student tickets are $10 and non-student tickets are $15.

Tickets can also be purchased online at ticketstorm.com.

ya jin/the daily Professional writing junior Reid Corbin stands in front of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house’s red doors Tuesday afternoon. The red doors are meant to symbolize acceptance and serve as inspiration in the fraternity’s upcoming music festival philanthropy.

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Day of the Dead Street

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he Walker-Adams Mall might look a little rowdier than usual Friday night.

Latino Student Life is putting on a Day of the Dead Street Festival, complete with face-painting, rock-climbing, a Ferris wheel, sugar skulls, live music and plenty of food.

Cultural significance makes the Day of the Dead special to Mayra Garcia, a social studies education sophomore. Because Day of the Dead is about celebrating the lives of loved ones who have died, Garcia and her family get together each year at the end of October to honor her grandmother’s memory.

“We do that for my grandma on my mom’s side in Mexico, so every Day of the Dead, we all get together and go eat together, and we have her picture with the flowers and the candles, and we set food out for her,” Garcia said. “It’s definitely a happy tradition, and it’s about celebrating a person who has passed away.”

Plans for this year’s third annual Day of the Dead festival have been in the works since last spring, said Daisy Ramirez, Day of the Dead chair for Latino Student Life. This year’s festival will be the “biggest one yet,” Ramirez said.

“It’s a festival that brings the Latino culture to campus, and it kind of shows and invites

the whole community to get a little taste of what we do and our traditions,” said Ramirez, a business manager sophomore. “My biggest goal is to make this event something that the whole community can enjoy.”

This year, economics sophomore Daniel Rangel is in charge of bringing various performers and musicians to the festival. He said his goal was to bring local artists such as local rapper L.T.Z. and Spanish rock band Tequila Azul to My biggest goal perform. is to make this “I kind of saw this as an oppor- event something tunity to give local that the whole bands a chance,” community can Rangel said.

“Pretty much all enjoy.” the entertainers w e brought are local entertainers, Daisy Ramirez, and we brought Day of the Dead them because we chair for Latino want to give them a chance and beStudent Life cause they’re good.

They’re talented.”

In addition to the musicians performing, Rangel said the festival will feature traditional Latino dancers.

“We have a mariachi band to open up, and we have traditional folk dancers from Mexico — with the big dresses, very colorful,” Rangel

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said. “What we’re trying to do with this event is really trying to expose our culture — bright colors, good music, fun stuff.”

Admission to the event will be free, and carnival and traditional Hispanic food will be available for purchase with either cash or credit cards, according to the festival’s Facebook event. An ATM available at the event can provide money for cash-only commodities, like the face painting or edible sugar skulls offered.

After promoting the festival on Twitter and spreading publicity by distributing free shirts during the week, Ramirez thinks people are looking forward to the event, she said.

“At first I was a little insecure about it, but now I’ve heard so many people talking about it, and they’re really interested,” Ramirez said.

Garcia hoped Day of the Dead would be a good chance to get the OU community involved in Latino culture, she said.

“I really think it’s great that the University of Oklahoma gives us this opportunity to bring such a diverse event to the OU community, and it really lets the Hispanic community represent itself,” Garcia said. “I really like to combine my home life and my culture with the school I go to, so that’s really great.”

Mary Munoz/The Daily Children paint sugar skulls at last year’s Day of the Dead Street Festival. The event had many activities for kids that allowed them to have fun while learning about Hispanic Culture.

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unning a haunted attraction can be a scary affair.

It isn’t just the dark corridors, disembodied voices and dripping blood a haunt owner like Bob Wright has to worry about when he shows up to work at night. It’s actually fire codes, employee training and industry standards that keep him busy at work and awake far beyond the witching hour.

Wright’s foray into the business of scaring people started in college when he worked at a Halloween store. His father, Bob Wright Sr., was a science teacher looking for a way to raise money to open a science discovery center.

“Dad saw how much money the Halloween store pulled in,” Wright Jr. said. “He came home one day, slapped a packet down on the table in front of me and asked me if I liked working at the Halloween store. When I said I did, he said that was good, because he’d just bought 40 acres to build a haunted house.”

The center never happened, but a haunted house sure did.

Wright now owns Trail of Fear, a haunted attraction in Lawton, Oklahoma, that boasts over 100 employees, security staff, medical personnel and makeup artists. He splits his time between this location, where he still works with his father, and his newest haunt, the Thunderbird Trail of Fear in

Noble, Oklahoma.

“You’re in a small room, though … you probably shouldn’t Wright’s work doesn’t just start in October. Creating and use the gas-operated chainsaw.” running a “scream park” rated in the top 31 haunts in the He may be dealing with any number of problems that can United States by hauntworld.com is a year-round effort. arise on a scarcely lit trail that takes 35 minutes to walk (or The minute Wright closes the doors of his haunts at the end run). He delivers water to actors who have knocked theirs of October, he gets together with his staff to brush up on the over in an attempt to make a guest howl; he gets into costume “psychology of fear,” as Wright described it, and brainstorm if enough employees can’t make it; he walks the path each new ways to make people cringe, shiver and scream. night to make sure there’s nothing within guests’ reach that “I’m a fairly creative person, but we have a team of people could injure them and is on hand with his medical staff in who are way more creative, and we throw out ideas during the case anything unexpected happens. off-season,” Wright said.

“Something will go wrong every night,” Elizabeth Achemire, Wright gets even busier in March, when haunted house a manager at the Noble location, said. “It may be something conventions start cropping up around the small, but in a place like this Bob will always be country. These meetings, with names like fixing something right before we open.”

“HauntCon” and “The Darkness,” are gatherAchemire said Wright is always stretching ings of haunted house and Halloween store himself thin when it comes to the Trail of Fear.

“I don’t know how he does it,” Achemire, owners who get together to talk shop, buy a few who lives on the premises at the Noble location, new gadgets for their haunts and check out the said. “He’s always running from the Lawton direction the industry is going that year. we’re performlocation to Noble, and he works in Oklahoma Wright uses these convention trips to see City. But he’ll always take time to try to help you what’s going to be popular at haunted houses ers, and people out, help you finish whatever you’re doing.” in the upcoming year. with performance This is probably because, for Wright, Trail of As soon as he gets back from these creepy backgrounds will Fear has always been a family affair, from his faconventions, his physical work on the Trail of Fear begins. Repairs have to be made on props understand that ther to his fan base.

“We’re performers, and people with perforand buildings to make sure everything is safe when you perform mance backgrounds will understand that when and working properly. New structures will be with each other, you perform with each other, you become a built, and new horrifying storylines will be writfamily,” Wright said. ten to give them character. Then actors have to you become a He is proud to boast that 60 to 70 percent of be hired (or rehired) and prepared for the tiring family.” his employees return every year, and he loves task of scaring the pants off visitors. when kids who have been attending Trail of As would be expected, however, October is Fear since middle school are finally old enough when Wright really shines.

Wright’s evenings at Trail of Fear are chaot- bob wright, trail of to don the fake blood themselves.

“We have an actual family who works here — ic, to say the least. Visitors who see him stringfear haunted father, mother, all six kids,” Wright said. “All of ing glowing green Christmas lights at the snack attraction owner the kids got their first paycheck from me. That’s stand — named the “Gut Hut” — could blink pretty special.” and miss him jogging across the complex to “I can’t take credit for the quality, because we wouldn’t be help erect the tent that will house a magic show later in the here without the volunteers,” he said. “They’re the ones bustevening.

They might see him sneak through the back entrance of the ing their rears acting and putting stuff together. I have a lot to trail with an armful of battery-operated candles to make an do as the owner, but it’s those people who make us who we are.” already-eerie scene dance with flickering yellow light.

Wright said he’s always happy to humbly accept a good They might see him standing on a dirt path, away from the word from a guest, or hear a suggestion for something he can peering eyes of guests, discussing chainsaw allocation.

“Now, if Dustin can bring both of his chainsaws, I want improve next year.

That is, if you can catch him. you two to have them tonight,” Wright says to an employee.

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ver the years, Halloween has become synonymous with candy, wacky costumes and a certain degree of mischief. It’s fun and carefree, a time to watch scary movies and coordinate group costumes with your friends. But let’s not forget what Halloween is about once you get past all of the latex masks and candy: frights.

From zombies and ghosts to haunted houses and corn mazes, it’s the time of the year to embrace your inner darkness and get the bejeezus scared out of you in the process.

And luckily, Oklahoma is far from empty when it comes to entertaining Halloween destinations. To make sure you don’t get stuck going out trick-or-treating with your younger sibling, here are some of the best events for a frightening good time this Halloween.

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Whether you’re hanging with friends as a group or going solo on the spooky holiday, we’ve got something to help make this Halloween weekend the spookiest one yet.

oday is Halloween, and for many people, that means dressing up as relevant pop-culture figures and celebrating with friends at parties or sitting at home cuddling with a significant other and passing out candy to small children. Some people, however, prefer to spend their Halloween alone, and we think even loners can make Halloween scary fun. Here are a few ways to make the spooky night entertaining while alone.

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Prepare for the night by getting dressed in your best “I barely survived midterms and I’m giving up” costume*. This can be whatever you wish, just make sure your garments are shapeless, comfortable and prime for marathon couch-sitting.

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EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror flick “Evil Dead” is delightfully weird, spooky and surreal — it makes sense it would be adapted into a musical. The production Where: tells the story of five colThe Pollard lege kids who travel to a Theatre at 120 W. cabin in the woods and Harrison Ave., Guthrie, accidentally unleash OK. an evil force that leads When: Various showtimes to bloody mayhem. It through Nov. 1. may sound like heavy Price: Student — $16.25, stuff, but with campy Regular — $27.25 musical numbers and hilariously tongue-incheek humor, “Evil Dead: The Musical” is bloody and violent with just the right amount of fun.

Tip: One hour before showtime, Splatter Zone seats go on sale that let you be a part of the show in the first two rows by getting sprayed with gallons of fake blood. Just make sure to dress appropriately.

For more information, visit the Pollard Theatre website.

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SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET If “Evil Dead” is a little too low-brow for your taste, get your fix of high-brow horror with the Reduxion Theatre Company’s production of Sweeney Todd. Based on Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Broadway musical, Sweeney Todd tells the story of a murderous barber who returns to London 15 years after he is falsely accused of a crime to take revenge on the judge who banished him. It’s stylish, clever and absolutely bonkers.

For more inWhere: formation, visit Reduxion the Reduxion Theatre at 914 N. Theatre Broadway Ave., Suite Company 120 in Oklahoma City, OK. website.

When: Various showtimes through Nov. 15.

Price: $23

Stop by the store on the way home and buy a bag of your favorite fun-size (or not so funsize) candy. After getting into your “costume,” binge eat. No one is watching, and Reese’s pumpkins are more fun than parties anyway.

Catch up on homework! Oh, did I say homework? I meant to say Hulu. Get festive and have an “American Horror Story” marathon or tap into your dead childhood and watch “Hocus Pocus” for the millionth time.

Make a jack-o’-lantern. Not only will you have a friend who is just glowing at being in your presence but also a great way to get rid of pent up frustrations by cutting up and gutting a pumpkin.

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THE DINNER DETECTIVE: MURDER MYSTERY DINNER SHOW

THE SANCTUARY If you only go to one haunted house this year, make it The Sanctuary. Considered one of the best horror attractions in the state, The Sanctuary is a highly detailed and highly horrifying Where: haunted attraction.

The Sanctuary With over four at 530 S. Broadway stories to walk Ave in Oklahoma City, through and OK. scares hiding beWhen: Various times hind every corner, through Nov. 2 The Sanctuary puts Price: $20 you right in the middle of a living, breathing, slasher flick.

For more information, visit The Sanctuary website.

I can’t be the only person who comes out of a scary movie and thinks, “How cool would it be if my life were a horror movie? Just without, you know, actual death.” And if you’re as twisted as I am, you’re in luck.

The Dinner Detective stages sold-out shows across the country, and now Where: you can become a Sheraton part of the interacHotel, 1 N. tive murder mysBroadway Ave., tery involving a Oklahoma City, OK. four-course meal, When: Oct. 31 dinner show and Price: $59.95 equally hilarious and horrifying mystery to be solved.

For more information, visit the Dinner Detective website.

Make some of those adorable Halloween treats that are actually for children from Pinterest. Who needs friends when you have mummy hot dogs, cupcakes topped with ice cream cone witches’ hats and Halloweenthemed bark?

Have your own “Monster Mash.” Blast the Halloween classics in your barren living room and dance until you drop (if the sugar doesn’t get you first).

If you are of age, tap into your inner mixologist and make some spooky cocktails. Try a Candy Corn Martini, a Witches’ Brew or even the disgustingly-named-deliciously-made Embalming Fluid. The best part? You don’t have to share!

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Try to set a personal record for how many candy corns you can toss into your mouth.

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know the gubernatorial From Rush Springs, Oklahoma, to Washington D.C. and back, Rep. Joe Dorman is taking on the incumbent governor, Mary Fallin, in the gubernatorial race this fall.

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Background Dorman said he decided to dedicate his life to public service after paging for the State Senate during high school.

After high school, Dorman attended Oklahoma State University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science, he said.

Dorman said he was active in politics at OSU. He was the chairperson of the OSU Student Senate and worked with the Student Lobby Force to keep tuition rates from increasing and represent the views and needs of the students.

His experience in college led to him working on several campaigns in 1994, eventually meeting the Speaker of the House at that time, Dorman said.

“He told me I should apply for a job at the Capitol,” Dorman said. “My first job there was working in the mailroom of the House of Representatives.”

Dorman worked his way up through the career ladder in the House of Representatives before resigning in 2002 to pursue a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, according to Dorman’s campaign website.

After working in the Oklahoma House of Representatives for 12 years, Representative Dorman decided to run for Oklahoma governor against the current republican governor, Mary Fallin.

In April, Fallin passed a bill to prevent minimum wage across the state to be increased, and Dorman called this “the height of hypocrisy.”

Dorman said Fallin is for local control but takes away local control to raise minimum How Dorman plans to affect college students wage. The bill prevents municipalities from raisFor college students, Dorman said he wants to ing the minimum wage to a living wage, even improve legislation that grants loan forgiveness though there are Native American territories in for students who are Aerospace Engineers.

Oklahoma that have done so with none of the ill “If [Oklahoma college] graduates agree to re- effects Fallin claims there will be, Dorman said. main in-state, we will work in certain fields of critical need across the state to help with loan Other issues forgiveness,” Dorman said.

If elected governor, Dorman said he wants to Dorman said he is looking out for future edu- make all education levels one of his top priorities. cators, promising to work for reasonable wages Dorman said this starts with college prep. If for teachers, at least the regional average, and elected governor, Dorman said he would do away promising to veto any legislation that would af- with the End of Instruction tests, which he sees as fect teacher retirement benefits. an unfair disadvantage Oklahoma students have Higher education funding is also on Dorman’s to face that other states do not. to-do list, an issue that he and OU President Instead of EOI testing, Dorman would take the David Boren share. funding from the End of Instruction tests and use “We’ve seen $100 million cut out of higher it for ACT prep, to prepare students for getting education,” Dorman said, “when [OU President into college, Dorman said.

David Boren] was in the State Senate, the state The funding would also go toward paying for of Oklahoma covered about half the costs of stu- students to take the ACT their sophomore year, dents to go to college.”

Dorman said.

Twenty years ago, when Boren became president of OU, higher education state funding Final notes was in the low thirties, but now it’s in the teens, Dorman said he frequently attends OU football Dorman said. games, even participating in the Homecoming “The state must invest in our future, and that Parade this year. He hopes to one day receive his means preparing students for life after school doctorate of political science from OU so he can without a tremendous amount of debt on their be a professor and teach the subject. backs,” Dorman said.

Dorman said he promises if he is elected govDorman said he believes the more the state ernor, he will not be an absent governor who only invests, parents and grandparents who are sub- shows up during election season. He said he insidizing loans to help students will also benefit. tends to actively visit the campus to encourage Lowering the cost of school for students in- students to be politically active like he was in cludes higher scrutiny of fees, Dorman said, “to college. show that those fees are truly needed.”

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Tecumseh, Oklahoma native Gov. Mary Fallin is the incumbent in the gubernatorial race, running against Rep. Joe Dorman, D–Oklahoma City. The Daily interviewed Fallin’s spokesperson Alex Weintz for this profile.

Time as governor When Fallin became governor, Oklahoma had a 7 percent unemployment rate, and the state “Rainy Day Fund” had $2.03 in it, Weintz said.

These policies, changing workman’s compensation, tax cuts and law suit reform, have lowered the unemployment rate to 4.7 percent in just four years and added 102,000 jobs, Weintz said.

Under Fallin, the median household income for Oklahomans is growing at twice the national average and the “Rainy Day Fund” which was at $2.03 has grown to $530 million, Weintz said.

“All of that means that we now have revenue and budget surpluses that we can pump more

money into common education and higher education,” Weintz said.

These surpluses are why the governor has increased funding for education by $180 million, Weintz said.

Fallin has always focused on education because businesses will not want to stay in Oklahoma if they do not have educated and skilled workers, Weintz said.

How Fallin plans to affect college students Fallin has supported programs like Complete College America, which is a degree completion program focused on helping students who only have a few credit hours left, but could not finish college to earn their degrees, Weintz said.

As of 2011, 30,000 degrees were awarded per year in Oklahoma, and Fallin’s goal is to increase that number to 50,000 over the next decade, Weintz said.

“We believe that is the number of degrees needed to keep pace with demand for an educated workforce,” Weintz said.

The goal to increase college degrees benefits individual Oklahomans, as well, because college graduates typically make more money than people without degrees, Weintz said.

In the last budget, Fallin proposed cuts to higher education, causing dissent from OU President David Boren, but these cuts ultimately did not happen, Weintz said.

Fallin also supported the Endowed Shares program, adding $130 million to the program, so that public universities like OU can hire the best professors available to them, Weintz said.

Other issues In April, Fallin passed a bill preventing cities from raising their minimum wage to prevent small businesses from firing employees because they couldn’t afford to pay higher wages and because a minimum wage increase would cause business to raise their prices, Weintz said.

Weint z said the Congressional Budget Office reported that if a minimum wage increase went into effect, the office predicted a loss of 500,000 to one million jobs almost overnight.

Fallin also feels that a “patchwork” of minimum wage increases across the state would stunt Oklahoma’s current economic growth, Weintz said.

“I think it would have a detrimental effect for any community to pursue a minimum wage increase,” Weintz said.

For students who have not made up their mind on what to vote for, Weintz said what he feels is important to students when they graduate is getting a job and having an affordable place to live.

He said he thinks Fallin has focused on things that will encourage all of those things.

“I think there is a choice between what Gov. Fallin is offering and what her opponent is offering, and we believe that a lot of the policies that Rep. Dorman supports would stop that economic growth and would make life very difficult for college graduates,” Weintz said.

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Background Politics seem to run through the governor’s blood, as both of her parents served as mayor of Tecumseh, Weintz said.

The governor is an OSU alumna, and she graduated with degrees in human and environmental sciences, family relations and child development. Weintz said that while the governor is an OSU alumna, she sent both of her children to OU. Fallin served as a state representative for four years, starting in 1990, Weintz said. In 1995, Fallin became lieutenant governor, serving for 12 years, Weintz said. She was the first republican ever to hold this position, Weintz said.

After s er ving as lieutenant governor, Fallin served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and then decided to run for governor in 2010, Weintz said.

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from football to politics Former Sooner J.C. Watts imparts some advice to aspiring politicians Joe Mussatto | @joe_mussatto J.C. Watts transitioned from a star quarterback at Oklahoma to a U.S. congressman.

The Eufaula native led the Sooners to two straight Orange Bowl victories in 1980 and 1981. After graduating with a journalism degree, Watts competed in the Canadian Football League before returning to Oklahoma as a pastor and youth minister.

In 1994, Watts was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma’s fourth district. The former congressman and quarterback now serves as chairperson of Watts Partners, a government affairs firm in Washington D.C. The Daily spoke with Watts about his transition from athletics to politics and what advice he would give to aspiring politicians.

did you decide to run for Q: When office and how did you transition from football to politics?

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When I left the University of Oklahoma in 1981, if you would’ve asked me if I see myself running for something ten years from now, I probably would’ve doubted it, but I wouldn’t have been shocked. I came from a pretty activist family. My uncle was state president of the NAACP for 16 years. My father ran for county sheriff and chief of police. I grew up around politics so I can’t say I was shocked throwing my hat in the ring. I can tell you that never in my wildest dreams did I think I would run for congress.

Maybe city council or school board, but my thought process never would have taken me beyond a local level. But this is America, and those things can and will happen.

I felt like it was a real possibility that I could win it.

At that point, you apply the same principles as football. You know your offense, understand defenses, work smart, have good people around you and on gameday go out and execute. That’s what I did, and on the first Wednesday of 1994 when I woke up, I had been elected to congress.

you considered running for ofQ: Have fice again?

A:

I’m not driven to do it. I’ve been encouraged and have flirted with the governor’s race but I’m enjoying having my life back. I’m able to make memories with grandkids, watch my son play for the St. Louis Rams and do family stuff. I’m enjoying the ups and downs of everyday life minus politics. I don’t know if I’ll ever do it again because I don’t know if I even qualify to run anymore. I’m smart enough to know that I’m not smart enough to have all the right answers.

your athletic career help you Q: Did in some cases to get to where you wanted to go in politics?

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I think it surely helped me get my foot in the door, having played quarterback at Oklahoma. At the end of the day, I was convinced that I might have gotten some brownie points for that. I also like to think that I impressed people with my policies. Playing quarterback at Oklahoma gave me a perspective of the cheer of the crowd. It’s very intoxicating. Just because people are cheering for you on one play, they’re booing you the next. In politics, you’re not always as great as the lobbyists say you are, but you’re not always as stupid as your constituents say you are.

advice would you give to stuQ: What dents who aspire for a career in politics?

A:

I would advise them to not be afraid to unlearn much of what they think. You have to unlearn a lot of things based on your upbringing, the part of town you were born in and what your parents thought. No disrespect to parents, ministers, business people or anyone else, but in the last 30 years, I’ve had to unlearn a lot of stuff.

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n the surface, Iowa State’s (2-5, battle,” he said. “You go from one to the next 0-4 Big 12) record certainly seems and prepare your guys the best you can.” unimpressive.

Considering Iowa State has come withHowever, a closer look at the Cyclone’s in four points (or less) of a conference win schedule reveals that the squad might be twice this season, the team seems primed better than its record indicates. In week two, for a big upset. With big-name Oklahoma Iowa State gave No. 11 Kansas State a scare, paying a visit this weekend, it feels like now losing by just four points. or never in Ames.

The Cyclones have two “We have a great atmomore losses to ranked sphere,” Rhoads said. “We have opponents. an extremely loyal fanbase.”

The better of the team’s Rhoads said playing at home two victories came against inalso helps in respect to gamestate rival Iowa in week three. It doesn’t matter day routine, but recognized The Cyclones won 20-17. where you play that beating OU is no easy task.

Even Oklahoma coach Bob “It doesn’t matter where oklahoma, you Stoops agrees that his team’s you play Oklahoma, you know next opponent is “certainly know you’re going you’re going to have a trebetter” than the final scores to have a tremen- mendous challenge,” he said. would indicate. realistic about that apdous challenge.” “We’re “Iowa State is a good team proach and excited for the who plays hard,” Stoops said opportunity.” in a teleconference. n o f f e n s e, Io w a St a t e iowa state coach is Oled The two teams facing off by quarterback Sam paul rhoads in Ames, Iowa, Saturday are Richardson. After winning the both coming off close lossquarterback battle that took es. Kansas State infamously downed OU in place over last season and the offseason, Norman, and Iowa State lost on a last-sec- Richardson has already surpassed his 2013 ond field goal to Texas after a questionable numbers with almost 1,700 yards passing on call by the officiating crew.

173 completions. The junior has also tossed With so many tough games in a short 13 touchdowns. amount of time, Iowa State coach Paul On the receiving end of the passing attack Rhoads said it’s important for the team to is tight end E.J. Bibbs. At 6-foot-3-inches always look ahead. and 264 pounds, Bibbs is not necessarily a “When you’re playing in the Big 12 big name, but he has made his fair share of Conference, every game is going to be a plays as of late. The senior has hauled in five

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daily file art Former OU wide receiver Jalen Saunders runs the ball down the field during last year’s Iowa State game in Norman. Iowa State hopes to do better this year after the Sooners won 48-10 in 2013.

touchdown passes in the last three games.

While Iowa State can attribute the offensive success to the players, some credit must be given to new offensive coordinator Mark Mangino, whose name might sound familiar to Sooner fans.

Mangino served as an offensive line coach and coordinator for Bob Stoops’ first staff. His playcalling helped Oklahom win a seventh national title in 2000.

Rhoads does not think this gives Iowa

State any advantage.

“It’s been so long since he was at Oklahoma,” he said.

Rhoads said he is pleased with the play of the offense this season.

“I think we’ve improved, obviously, every week as the season has gone along” he said.

“Certainly [the Texas game] was our most explosive effort. We’d like to continue to operate with that kind of efficiency.”

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