{"id":3434,"date":"2025-10-15T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:23:48","slug":"a-scary-good-time-greek-life-chapters-host-annual-not-so-spooky-halloween-event-for-area-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/news\/2025\/10\/a-scary-good-time-greek-life-chapters-host-annual-not-so-spooky-halloween-event-for-area-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"A scary good time: Greek Life chapters host annual Not So Spooky Halloween event for area youth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since 2018, students from URI’s Greek Life chapters have hosted an annual Not So Spooky Halloween event as an opportunity to connect with local communities and offer area youth a safe, unique trick-or-treating experience. (URI photo\/Courtesy of Greek Life)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 15, 2025 \u2013 Spooky season has arrived at the University of Rhode Island and students involved in Greek Life are once again providing a far less frightening trick-or-treating opportunity for area youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 7th<\/sup> Annual Not So Spooky Halloween, presented by the Division of Student Affairs and Greek Life, is this Sunday, October 19 from 2\u20135 p.m. in Fraternity Circle off Quarry Road<\/a>, home to 13 of URI\u2019s fraternity and sorority chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open and free to the public, the event is a chance for local families to dress up for an early, pre-Halloween trick-or-treating extravaganza that includes a haunted house, face painting, and a costume contest for children ages 2 through 13. Trick-or-treaters are encouraged to stop by each house in Fraternity Circle, where Greek Life residents will be decked out in their own costumes passing out candy throughout the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guests are encouraged to park for free at the Keaney Parking Lot<\/a>, which is a short walk from Fraternity Circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot So Spooky Halloween is a great way for us to give back to the surrounding community, which does so much for us during our philanthropic events throughout the year,\u201d said URI senior kinesiology major, Alpha Chi Omega member, and Panhellenic Council campus involvement and housing chair Sakeena Khan of Warwick, RI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a fun, family-friendly event that gets our Greek Life members involved and interacting with families from surrounding areas, and each house will have different activities for families and their children to participate in. It\u2019s going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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URI Greek Life students dressed as minions from the “Despicable Me” film franchise at last year’s Not So Spooky Halloween event. (URI photo\/Courtesy of Greek Life)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Greek Life assistant director Alison Burke helped launch the event when she arrived at URI in 2018. While initially not a big success \u2013 \u201cWe had one child come the first year,\u201d Burke said \u2013 Not So Spooky Halloween has grown in magnitude and volume through the years. Forced to cancel in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event has become popular within the South County community due to outreach from URI faculty and staff, many of whom are parents themselves or have strong connections to school and youth organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the face painting and haunted house, this year\u2019s event also features an apple cider and donut stand for parents to grab a snack, pumpkin-painting stations, and various prizes awarded for the best costumes and other family-friendly competitions, such as a first-of-its-kind werewolf howling contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event, Burke said, is not only beneficial for community engagement between Greek Life and surrounding towns and cities, but also for current students looking to develop important leadership and event management skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a fun opportunity, too, for the directors at all the different houses to get involved, so they\u2019ve really gotten in on the fun through the years,\u201d Burke said. \u201cSome of them will dress up in costumes with their chapters, and it gets them involved as community members, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Khan, who is also a program coordinator for the Center for Student Leadership Development and a leadership minor, events like Not So Spooky Halloween and Philanthropy Week in November go a long way toward accomplishing her goal of intertwining Greek Life with more on-campus events and initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople have different perspectives and opinions regarding Greek Life, but we do a lot of community service and philanthropic work both through Philanthropy Week in November and Greek Week in the spring,\u201d Khan said. \u201cIf you\u2019re not directly involved with Greek Life, you may not necessarily see it, but it\u2019s important to help students understand the impact they can make on campus through Greek Life. You can be a leader in other spaces, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 15, 2025 \u2013 Spooky season has arrived at the University of Rhode Island and students involved in Greek Life are once again providing a far less frightening trick-or-treating opportunity for area youth. The 7th Annual Not So Spooky Halloween, presented by the Division of Student Affairs and Greek Life, is this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}