Sigma Phi Epsilon has plans to pair with Alpha Xi Delta and Alpha Kappa Alpha to host a haunted house event on Friday, Oct. 27 for the Bowling Green Boys and Girls Club.
Donte Reed, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, has been working with the local Boys and Girls club since September. He came up with the idea of hosting a haunted house after meeting associated dental professor Ronald Singer at the University of Kentucky.
Reed attended a program where Singer showed videos of “Moeller Manor,” a haunted house in Southern California. Thousands of people attended this haunted house and it inspired Reed to host something similar.
“You can just see the kids faces just lighting up,” Reed said about the Moellar Manor video, “That made me want to do that on a campus scale with these kids that I just have gained relationship with.”
Reed invited Alpha Xi Delta and Alpha Kappa Alpha to join his fraternity in hosting this event. Alpha Xi Delta’s philanthropy is the Boys and Girls Club and Reed decided to invite Alpha Kappa Alpha to join because he had seen how active they are in the community.
“I’m excited about just collaborating honestly with Sig Ep and AXiD, because both are very large organizations…” Dasia Finch, senior Alpha Kappa Alpha member said. “I think it’s important for Greek unity, for all of us to come together in this create that bond with each other.”
The members of the Boys and Girls club will be grouped up by age and lead through the fraternity house. The event as a whole will include carnival games and a trunk or treat, in addition to the haunted house.
“We’re gonna have people acting like you would in a typical haunted house,” Olivia Masden senior Alpha Xi Delta member said. “(The) groups will come in and I guess it’ll gradually get a little bit more scary (as the age groups increase), but it won’t be anything too bad.”
Once kids are through the haunted house they will be taken upstairs to decorate their own paper bags for the trunk or treat before being led to the back parking lot. There will be cornhole, musical chairs and other carnival games.
“They’ll come out back at the end and we have a (Michael Jackson) Thriller dance planned for them, (with) about 30 people participating in this dance,” Reed said. “After the Thriller dance is over, they will be doing a trunk or treat with the cars that we have parked behind our chapter house free of charge, and they’ll be going back to the Boys and Girls Club around six o’clock when they normally would end their day there.”
According to Reed, the Boys and Girls club members have been looking forward to this event along with members of Greek life that are participating in the event.
“It (will be) exciting to see the kids reactions and how they react to this event,” Reed said. “I know a lot of them have said they’ve never been to the haunted house before, so I want to see that firsthand.”
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