Halloween was hardly a one-day celebration on Whitman Campus. Festivities began on Oct. 25 with a showing of “Silence of the Lambs” at Kimball at 7 p.m. and ended on Oct. 31 with a showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at 10 p.m. in Maxey, complete with the traditional actors and props.

On Oct. 27, North Hall hosted the Haunted Hospital. The event consisted of 35-40 actors, whose roles ranged from zombies to psych patients. These actors were dispersed throughout North Hall, the residence hall that formerly served as Walla Walla General Hospital.

Attendees entered North Hall through the main door and were sent to a waiting room. From there, a tour guide picked them up, a “doctor” who would be later grabbed by a zombie.

Guests were guided through the psych ward, the roof, the maternity ward and the morgue. Attractions included a nurse shooting up cocaine, another nurse who hurled a baby (doll) at patrons and an escaped psych patient who chased people down the street, revving chainsaw in hand.

The event was a fund-raiser for the Walla Walla Food Bank and attracted enough students to form a sometimes hour-long line.

“I heard rumors that some people left because the line was so long. We’ve never had that problem before,” said organizer and North Hall resident Michael A. McKenzie. Although food and donations haven’t been tallied yet, they are expected to be above average.

On the other side of campus, CAB and the Fine Arts House co-hosted the Cobweb Ball in the Reid Campus Center basement. The event included a dance, a costume contest and a drawing for those who keep their invitations that were in student mailboxes earlier this week. Students also received raffle tickets as they walked in.

The event is one of CAB’s biggest. “Last year prizes included an iPod,” said Tom Bugert, vice chair of CAB. According to Marketing Chair Katie Phelps, reverse trick-or-treaters “handed out candy and reminded people about the event.” Advertisement efforts for the event also included ghosts, cobwebs and headless horsemen dispersed throughout campus.

The event also included a variety of food including pumpkin cups, cookies, dirt cups complete with pudding and Oreo crumbs, as well as vegetables. “I really enjoyed the pudding,” said first-year Matt Goldfogel, who attended the event dressed in a bathrobe.

“The food was the best part. Especially the pudding,” said first-year Naomi Gibbs, who found the music “ranging from okay to lame.” Other students found the music event-appropriate. Of the music, first-year Elliot Stone said, “It was nice and Halloweeny while I was there.”

According to CAB, the Cobweb Ball had 400 attendees last year. Numbers were higher than that this year, though attendance varied throughout the night. By midnight, numbers had tapered to fewer than 30.