Flash back to the days of crazy costumes, ringing doorbells, yelling "trick-or-treat" and trying to trick your friends into trading Kit-Kats for those funny colored taffy things in orange and black wrappers. Flash back to the days of griping about the people who gave out toothbrushes or pennies and just didn"t appreciate the artistic effort that went in to making you the blue M&ampM with eyeholes just small enough that you couldn"t see through them. Think all the way back to last year?

As Halloween approaches the lure of candy and costumes grows again even people between the ages of 19 and 23 wonder if they can get away with trick-or-treating just one more year to get those pillowcases full of food and to show off one more cool costume.

LSA freshman Miljana Vujosevic, who hopes continue the tradition of trick-or-treating this year, said she still remembers her Halloween debut as a washing machine when she was in third grade.

"It was a cardboard box. My head went in one end and my arms went out the side, and there was a door that opened up the whole thing was neon colors," she laughed. "People either kept trying to open the door and put things in there or just stood there wondering what I was."

Vujosevic added that despite her past history of original costumes, including a strawberry, leaf and money bag, she doesn"t plan to be a washing machine or anything of the like this year.

"Most people think it"s cute, especially when you"re young. If I did it now, who knows? But for third grade it was fun I mean, you can"t really go out in public like that very often," Vujosevic said.

LSA sophomore James Davis shares Vujosevic"s enthusiasm for costumes past but said he doesn"t think he"ll be making more trick-or-treating memories this year. He said his all-time best costume was sometime around kindergarten, when he dressed up as an Ewok from "Star Wars."

"It was great. I had a furry mask like one of those you buy at the store, a cape, some furry gloves definitely something straight out of K-mart," said Davis.

Davis, however, is also still haunted by his all-time scariest trick-or-treating moment, where he said he and friends were almost kidnapped while trying to get candy.

"We rang his doorbell and this guy invited us in. He said the treats were in the back we went out to the back and he had his car running. We definitely booked it out of there," Davis said.

Though 25 of the 30 students randomly surveyed by this reporter said they didn"t plan on trick-or-treating this year, many also said they couldn"t imagine a Halloween without costumes.

LSA freshman Christina Dewaelsche says she"ll never forget being Rainbow Bright and carrying "Rainbow Bright"s horse" around the neighborhood when she was little.

"The costume had a sparkly wig, puffy shoulders it was the best. Even just the makeup, we were so proud of it because my sister and I were 3 and 4 and we got to wear lipstick and eye shadow," Dewaelsche said, smiling as she remembered the make-up madness.

By Karen Schwartz

Daily Arts Writer

Flash back to the days of crazy costumes, ringing doorbells, yelling "trick-or-treat" and trying to trick your friends into trading Kit-Kats for those funny colored taffy things in orange and black wrappers. Flash back to the days of griping about the people who gave out toothbrushes or pennies and just didn"t appreciate the artistic effort that went in to making you the blue M&ampM with eyeholes just small enough that you couldn"t see through them. Think all the way back to last year?

As Halloween approaches the lure of candy and costumes grows again even people between the ages of 19 and 23 wonder if they can get away with trick-or-treating just one more year to get those pillowcases full of food and to show off one more cool costume.

LSA freshman Miljana Vujosevic, who hopes continue the tradition of trick-or-treating this year, said she still remembers her Halloween debut as a washing machine when she was in third grade.

"It was a cardboard box. My head went in one end and my arms went out the side, and there was a door that opened up the whole thing was neon colors," she laughed. "People either kept trying to open the door and put things in there or just stood there wondering what I was."

Vujosevic added that despite her past history of original costumes, including a strawberry, leaf and money bag, she doesn"t plan to be a washing machine or anything of the like this year.

"Most people think it"s cute, especially when you"re young. If I did it now, who knows?