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Philip Pulliam
Issue date: 10/12/07 Section: News
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Students looking for a haunting from the paranormal world were left more haunted by the exclusion they faced from a student-funded campus organization.
Tuesday evening the Student Activities Council welcomed Christopher Moon, senior editor and co-owner of The Haunted Times, a publication that deals in paranormal happenings and ghost activity. Moon regaled the audience of around 100 students with stories and photos regarding his numerous ghost hunting ventures and injuries.
However, it was what happened after the presentation that received the most emotional responses from the attending students. At the beginning of the seminar, Moon inquired whether the audience was excited to accompany him on an actual ghost hunt after the event. Many of the attendees ex-pressed interest in staying after to continue the lesson. Although many were not expecting the offer.
After the invitation had been extended, Moon continued displaying photos and sound clips that he said were evidence of the existence of the paranormal. Senior Erin Lakin was made a believer.
"I am not skeptical at all of the photos," she said.
As the presentation reached a stopping point, Moon again asked the audience if they were excited to see some of his ghost hunting equipment at work first-hand. The audience replied even more enthusiastically to this inquiry. Almost all in attendance had decided to accompany Moon on this ghost hunt at the historic Landers Theatre in downtown Spring-field.
The eagerness of the crowd was quickly replaced by anger and frustration when a member of the audience begged the question of the ghost hunt during the question-and-answer period that followed the presentation.
When asked for more specifics about when and where the outing would take place, Moon was interrupted by a member of SAC who took over the question on a separate microphone.
The SAC member explained to the audience that the ghost hunt that each of them had been invited to by Moon was, in actuality, a special activity that was only open to SAC members in good standing.
Tuesday evening the Student Activities Council welcomed Christopher Moon, senior editor and co-owner of The Haunted Times, a publication that deals in paranormal happenings and ghost activity. Moon regaled the audience of around 100 students with stories and photos regarding his numerous ghost hunting ventures and injuries.
However, it was what happened after the presentation that received the most emotional responses from the attending students. At the beginning of the seminar, Moon inquired whether the audience was excited to accompany him on an actual ghost hunt after the event. Many of the attendees ex-pressed interest in staying after to continue the lesson. Although many were not expecting the offer.
After the invitation had been extended, Moon continued displaying photos and sound clips that he said were evidence of the existence of the paranormal. Senior Erin Lakin was made a believer.
"I am not skeptical at all of the photos," she said.
As the presentation reached a stopping point, Moon again asked the audience if they were excited to see some of his ghost hunting equipment at work first-hand. The audience replied even more enthusiastically to this inquiry. Almost all in attendance had decided to accompany Moon on this ghost hunt at the historic Landers Theatre in downtown Spring-field.
The eagerness of the crowd was quickly replaced by anger and frustration when a member of the audience begged the question of the ghost hunt during the question-and-answer period that followed the presentation.
When asked for more specifics about when and where the outing would take place, Moon was interrupted by a member of SAC who took over the question on a separate microphone.
The SAC member explained to the audience that the ghost hunt that each of them had been invited to by Moon was, in actuality, a special activity that was only open to SAC members in good standing.
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Bryan Diaz
posted 10/12/07 @ 12:31 PM CST
Students need to realize that this is not the first exclusion from a student-funded campus organization that they have faced. It is not unusual that whenever SAC brings in a lecturer, they select a certain few individuals to attend a free dinner with the lecturer before or after their lecture. (Continued…)
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