The Towerlight, October 26, 1989

tl19891026-000 "Vol. 84 No. 8 qtudents of Towson State th?iversit ,y, University rated ""Up Conling."" Page 2 Laciosse places second in UM13C, Fall Tournatnetit.Page 6 Fat Man arid Lite': Boy p;cinicis. Pagc. 13 Evolution, eication, education. Page 18 Halloween ""Nightmares"" haunt Crackdown (CPS)�From California to Flor-ida, campus and city officials are swearing they will be better prepared this year for what has probably become the unofficial National Student Holiday: Hal-loween. As with spring break, the other nationwide collegiate festi-val, many schools are promising crackdowns and rule changes to try to prevent some of the worst excesses And even injuries that have plagued campus Halloween celebrations in recent years. ""This will not be a pleasant place to be on Halloween,"" said Jack Dyer, director of university relations at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale, which 18 years ago was one of the first schools to give itself over to huge Halloween street parties. But SW's much-copied Hal-loween bash has grown to host more than 20,000 people who crowd streets, throw beer bottles and hurt each other. Similar problems have plagued college costume parties at the universities of Massachu-setts- Amherst, Florida, Colorado and other schools. No one is sure how all this started, or how Halloween, of all days, turned into the biggest college party night of the year. see HALLOWEEN, page 12. "