UW-Madison students promote free Halloween party
MADISON, Wis. (AP) University of Wisconsin-Madison students put off by the entrance fee to the city's official Halloween party are starting an alternative, free event.
Madison officials started Freakfest two years ago after Halloween festivities on State Street downtown got out of hand. The city charges $7 for admission and provides live entertainment. This year's headliner is O.A.R.
UW-Madison student Xiyang Chen (Zheye-YANG' CHEN) says he's attended Freakfest for the past two years and found it well organized. But he says he and other students are put off by the fee and didn't like the entertainment.
He and his friends are promoting a free, unregulated block party on West Mifflin Street. Chen stressed that organizers of that event also expect participants to party peacefully.
Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 a.m.
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I doubt the city will allow it. And I do agree with you. Halloween on State Street draws a lot of outta staters.
Oct 30, 2008 at 11:53 a.m.
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The problem in the past seems to have been connected to the large number of outsiders who come to town specifically expecting a wild party. I don't know if that cycle has been really broken yet, even though things have been quiet the last couple of years. At least W. Mifflin is not in the middle of all the bars.
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The real question is whether the city will even permit it to take place.
Oct 30, 2008 at 9:54 a.m.
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Yeah good luck with that Chen... the whole point of the admission is to cover the cost of out of control drunks and entertainment... If people weren't acting like drunk idiots, and partied "peacefully", there wouldn't need to be so much police intervention and a charge in the first place.
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