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Show Editorial The Signpost Viewpoint WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011 3 THE SIGNPOST The trials of shopping for costumes Growing up ultimately changes the way holidays are celebrated, and Halloween is no exception. Bringing treats to your classes is weird, and trick-or-treating without any children can be pretty creepy and should be avoided. But there is one exception of this rule to Halloween in that adults can still dress up without getting a lot of weird looks. With Halloween less than a week away, many straggling students and faculty members might be struggling to figure out what they want to dress up as. The natural first place to begin for many is one of those weird-smelling costume stores that are only open for about a month and a half every year. These are located in rundown Circuit Cities and stores that used to be Mervyns. The problem with those cos- tume shops is that they are all the model was whom the cos pretty much copies of each tume was fit around. Utah in other, but it's sometimes hard October is cold, and finding a to realize that until you've gone way to stay warm and have an to seven or eight of them. If awesome costume can be a bit finding a costume is difficult at of a challenge. The other costume options one of them, chances are it will be about the same odds at any for women are the weird, giant, mascot kind of costumes. other costume shop. The next places to look are They're very large and awkward the Internet, used clothing and generally are versions of stores and department stores. unsexy animals (i.e., not cats Any of these can be treasure or bunnies) and human-sized troves or major flops in the cos- food. For the most part, children tume department. Savers, for example, has a used costume have it pretty good when it section that consists of about comes to costumes. Making the six different-colored gradua- decision is pretty easy, and if it fits weirdly they don't really tion robes. Another issue with adult mind. For the most part, parents costumes is the fit, especially will either pay for their costumes for women. For every cos- or help put it together. That is one major drawback tume that fits well, there are 100 more ill-fitting or flimsy to adult costumes: They can get costumes. Some are too short, expensive. For a college student, some are made of see-through asking parents to help pay for materials and some make the an adult-sized Batman costume wearer question what shape probably wouldn't go over well. Sacrificing a week's worth of gro- it a worthy investment. If one of ceries to wear something only your favorite costumes still fits, once isn't ideal either. unless it's going to be seen by the But if money is a problem exact same people who saw you in and costume shops have it last time and therefore isn't failed, the natural next going to get you any new step is to put tocompliments (or if it's f Some o O gether a costume. one that no longer the best and Some of the best reflects your tastes and most origior maturity, like, most original nal costumes you know, a Pikacostumes come come from your chu costume), go from your own own mind, even ahead and recycle mind. • • if it's just a simple a costume. Or, if zombie costume „1/ you're ruthless, you or a clever pun writcould cut it up and reuse ten on a T-shirt. Don't the fabric (Pikachu could be hesitate to mix and match; reincarnated as a sexy bumbleperhaps that old prom dress bee). Get creative with where you you thought you'd never use find your fabric; an old tablecloth again could be paired with might even have potential. something from your parents' There's no need to shell out $70 wardrobe to create a totally for a costume if you don't want to, unique costume idea, like, say, or to forsake dressing up due to a groovy '80s princess. limited selection. Don't underesOr, if you've spent good timate personal creativity. money on costumes in the Comment on this column at past, you might as well make wsusignpost.corn. Pragmatic Perspective Gadhafi's death telling of Libya's future The death handled are frightfully telling former of the possibilities and likeliof Nathan Mikami Libyan dicta- hood of a just and civil society • tor Muammar emerging from the rubble of The Signpost Gadhafi has this revolution. There are two columnist been con- issues I see with how the death troversial to of Gadhafi and the manner in say the least. which it was carried out will While for some it is an incredi- affect the future of freedom in bly happy day to see his bloody Libya. corpse plastered all over the The first is that justice news, for others, like myself, it was not served by murdering saddens us despite the heinous Muammar Gadhafi. This is a crimes he committed. man who has oppressed milOf course, I am not saddened lions, allegedly committed acts in any way knowing that Gad- of terror and who is guilty of hafi can no longer hurt another egregious crimes against the human being and I'm incred- Libyan people. And how will ibly happy, while a bit terrified, justice be served? It cannot, for the liberation of the Libyan because any hope of bringing people, who have been freed of Gadhafi to justice was lost with a terrible and tyrannical dicta- his life. Taking one more life tor. Their liberation is certainly cannot and does not justify the something to be celebrated, many deaths that have already but the death of one more hu- been lost. No matter how despiman life, no matter how vile cable, pitiful and pathetic his that life may have been, is not. life and reign may have been, The details of Gadhafi's a legitimate trial and sentence death are still a bit vague, but, for each of Gadhafi's crimes, by most reports, Gadhafi was and ultimately watching him murdered, dragged through rot in prison would have been the streets and displayed on ice the highest level of judgment. like some trophy animal just Instead, Gadhafi was dealt the gunned down by the skilled get-out-of-jail-free card. hunter. Gadhafi's death and The second issue I for see is the manner in which it was stable future for a justice sys- tem in Libya. If Gadhafi's death and post-death activities are any indication of the future of the rule of law in Libya, then their future is not bright - at least, not as bright as we might hope. I can only have sympathy for the people of Libya, for I have absolutely no idea what it is like to live under the rule of such an oppressive regime, but I wish, for their sakes, that they had not returned such brutality, because an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth doesn't typically sit well within the rule of law. The death of Gadhafi will certainly have an effect on the future of Libya. Whether that effect if purely negative or positive is yet to be seen. I like to think of myself as an optimist and hope for the best in this situation. Learning from the oppression experienced during the Gadhafi rule, I hope that Libyans can rise up as a people and prove the critics wrong and turn around a seemingly rocky start into a hopeful future, not only in Libya, but the entire Arab world. 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