A spectre is haunting the University — the Rotumpkin.
With the dawn of Halloweekend on Grounds, the rainbow of fall leaves is accompanied by hundreds of kids and students arriving for traditions like Trick or Treating on the Lawn, in costumes from the classic Charlie Brown white-sheet-ghost to Busch Can.
After what has been an unusually uneasy beginning to the semester, members of the University community should be looking forward to the holiday with no holds barred. But even with the Trump administration’s Compact rejected, Virginia’s athletic teams experiencing landmark success and Grubhub returned to its rightful place after the death of WahooEats, something is missing. North and South Lawn may maintain their classic fall aura and overenthusiastic Lawnies, but on the other side of the academical village, an eerie quiet remains…