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Scaredy cat
Sigma Nu sponsors “All Hallow’s
Eve,”
proceeds fund Easter egg hunt in April
Luis Garcia, a junior biology major from Santa Ana, Calif.,
helps set up the Simga Nu fraternity haunted house. The
Sigma Nu haunted house opened Friday and will run until
Halloween.
ANNIE BROWN / UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
By MATT HAMILTON
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
Sigma Nu is ready to scare southern Utah once again
with All Hallow’s Eve tactics for its 15th annual
haunted house fund-raiser.
This year the haunted house will be in the Providence
Center next to New York Burrito, Thursday through Saturday
and Oct. 28 - Oct. 31 from 8 p.m. to midnight. Saturday
is kids’ night.
It will cost $4 per entry and $3 with a can of food or
valid SUU student I.D. Friday the cost is only $2 for
students who attend the Howl. Canned foods go to Iron
County Care & Share.
All proceeds from the haunted house will go toward funding
the yearly community Easter Egg Hunt in April. The Easter
Egg Hunt will be sponsored by Sigma Nu and was started
15 years ago.
This year is expected to be the biggest year in terms
of money the
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fraternity will produce, said Brett Hamilton,
Sigma Nu president.
Advertising has also played a big role, he said.
“This is the most publicized we’ve ever made
it,” Hamilton said.
Sigma Nu produced fliers, ran advertisements in the Journal
and the Daily News, advertised on B94.9 and Hawk radio stations
and other media throughout Hurricane, St. George and Mesquite,
Nev.
Hamilton said Sigma Nu also received a lot of donations.
Other local Greek organizations have helped Sigma Nu build
and organize the haunted house including: Alpha Phi, Delta
Psi Omega and Sigma Chi.
Power 91 is a co-sponsor and will be at the haunted house
as well.
Each year Sigma Nu members spend a part of the summer gettinga
building to use and start the school year by planning the
haunted house. Members visit haunted houses in other cities
such as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City to see what kind of
techniques have been used and what kind of ideas they can
incorporate into their own haunted house.
How scary is the Sigma Nu Haunted House? Hamilton doesn’t
know.
“I’ve never had the chance to go through it,”
he said.
Although, he said running the haunted house has its benefits.
“What’s fun is scaring high school guys,”
Hamilton said. “They come in all macho and stuff.
They come in like, ‘You can’t scare me.’
It’s a lot of fun, as long as they don’t get
hurt.”
Joni Carson, a sophomore undeclared major from Sandy, said,
“I liked the chain saw guy.”
“Creepy” is the word sophomore communication
major Dogu Gocuk from Turkey used to described the Sigma
Nu Haunted House.
Hamilton said the haunted house lasts from 5 to 7 minutes,
but that “it kind of matters whether you get caught
in the maze.”
Hamilton said other haunted houses vary in the level of
fear experienced by visitors.
“I’ve been to some and it’s just ridiculous,
and other are really scary,” he said.
Hamilton said what really attracts people to haunted houses
is if the houses are scary or not.
“The ultimate thing is the fear factor,” Hamilton
said.
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CD settlement
gets shoppers
$67M for hike
By TYLER JOHNSON
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
Students who purchased music compact discs from 1995 until
2000 might have paid too much money and may receive compensation
because of a settlement in a national anti-trust lawsuit on
Sept. 30.
Utah, along with 41 other states and three territories, filed
the lawsuit in federal court, accusing five of the largest U.S.
CD distributors and three of the largest music retailers for
allegedly conspiring to raise the price of prerecorded music,
according to a press release from the Utah Attorney General’s
office on Sept. 30.
Distributors and affiliates agreed to pay more than $67 million
to consumers, provide about 5.5 million CDs to non-profit groups
like schools and libraries and have promised not to engage in
sales practices that artificially hike the retail prices for
CDs.
“The practice of artificially hiking CD prices is a real
sour note for the music industry,” said Wayne Klein, assistant
attorney general who is representing Utah in the lawsuit, said
in the press release. “This settlement will make sure
music lovers don’t pay inflated prices and it will also
bring lots of great CDs to Utah charities, schools and libraries.”
The lawsuit named music distributors Bertelsmann Music Group,
Inc., EMI Music Distribution, Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corp.,
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., Universal Music Group and national
retail chains Transworld Entertainment Corp., Tower Records
and Musicland Stores Corp. at fault for hiking prices, although
they deny the charges.
Eminem, Jennifer Lopez and the Dave Mathews Band were among
the CD makers whose CDs were allegedly overpriced by the distributors.
Paul Murphy, director of communication for the attorney general’s
office, said most CDs that were available for purchase during
the five-year period are included in the lawsuit.
Consumers will receive between 50 cents to $1 for every CD purchased
in that time period. Murphy said the state will
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Sadie Kupfer, a sophmore special education major from
Cedar City, looks at CDs to purchase at Wal-Mart. CD distributors
have agreed to pay consumers $67 million in a national
anti-trust lawsuit settlement.
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probably not file any claims for consumers that equal less
than $5.
Forms will be available on the Internet within a few months
at the Web site www.attorneygeneral.utah.gov for those who wish
to file a claim, Murphy said.
Utah will receive 43,500 CDs to give to charitable groups, schools
and libraries in addition to the money allocated for consumer
reimbursement.
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