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I Features Page 4 October 28, 2003 Botanical Growth Photo by Chris Gillmore Greenhouse blossoms under Deborah Hautau's care. DE MARAMED Staff Writer In the eleven years Mrs. Deborah Hautau has spent here at ACC teaching botany and biology, she has managed to turn the greenhouse in the Natural Resource Center completely around. When she first arrived, the greenhouse was in JESSICA MILLER Staff Writer Halloween USA, the new store in the Alpena Mall is a seasonal store with everything from cups to life-size witches. The new store opened in September, and is scheduled to close November 1st • It is a branch of Gags and Gifts, a store all about practical jokes. This is the first year Halloween USA is in the Alpena Mall, and business is doing very well according to an employee of the store. Halloween USA has tons of decorations including cups, bowls, lights, stickers, and life size witches and zombies. There is one particular "dummy" that really sticks out: a life size Osama Bin Laden hangs from the ceiling in a noose. In the right hand corner of the store as soon as you walk in, there is a garden of gravestones as well as a shelf of skulls and an aisle of Halloween make-up. The store has a vast variety of masks and wigs. The masks include shambles. She literally had to take truckloads of garbage out before she could start rebuilding. "There was basically nothing but spiderplants and asparagus fern," she said. Now, however, there is a tropical corner, pond area, desert area, scented geraniums, and every year they grow twelve different varieties of hot peppers. gorillas, monsters, Yoda from Star Wars, and Homer from The Simpsons. There's also a softer side to the masks including puppy faces and butterflies. There are walls of wigs, blonde, black, purple, straight, curly and so on. What is a wig and a mask without a costume? Halloween USA has those too. Men's costumes, Women's costumes, Kid's costumes, even dog costumes. The adult costumes range from Disney characters to crazy doctors. There are witches, hippies, demons, pirates and the list goes on. In the future, she hopes to see the greenhouse expanded, including insallation of an automated watering system. Born and raised in Detroit, 36-year-old Deborah started out in the medical field, but after taking a couple botany classes while waiting for medical school, she quickly changed her mind. She now has her Masters Degree from Wayne State Univer- sity, and has previously worked as a naturalist for the Detroit Metro- parks for two years, working with plants and animals. Aside from a botany and biology class, she also teaches zoology class in the spring, a field biology class in the summer. She also hopes to add a fun and interesting field botany class in the summer as well. The children's costumes include Scooby Doo, Power Rangers, Angles, Butterflies, Ninjas, Disney characters, Superman, Batman, vampires and princesses just to name a few. There are even a variety of dog costumes to choose form such as a prisoner, a princess, a devil, and a pimp. Accessories for Halloween costumes are organized into sections. There's a section for devil accessories like horns and tails. There is a section of hippie's accessories including large peace earrings and headbands. There is a wall of gift bags and a wall of swords. There is a section of stocking and gloves as well. There is even a wall just for feather scarves. So if you' re looking for anything that remotely has to do with Halloween, you may want to look here. Beware though ... no, nothing is going to get you, but there are no refunds at Halloween USA. And who knows, if enough people visit the store this year, it just may come back to haunt us next year. Gender Issues Class Offered atACC KARA MCDONALD Staff Writer A new gender issues course will be offered at ACC, start- ing Fall, 2004. Students who are interested in sociology, gender roles in society, feminism, will have the opportunity to discuss these issues and more in the Gender in Society course. Topics will include the significance of gender/sex roles and cultural and social expectations of males and females in our society. Students will analyze the socialization of children and its influence on male~ female relationships in both social and work settings. Differences in the ways men and women per- ceive the world and relate to others will be studied. This course will be taught by Terri Eide and is offered only inthefall. According to Eide,this course is mostly discussion-based , using a reader to which students will refer. There is a limit of 25 students in the fall semester class, The prerequisite for the Gender in Society course is of SOC 123 (Sociology, offered during both fall and spring semesters) or PSY225 (General Psychology, offered during spring, sum- mer, and fall terms). Students interested in the course can contact Terri Eide. The ( Ow Cafe Downtown Alpena 121 WChisholm A Tradition in Alpena DAILY SPECIALS Lunch • Dinner• Deep Dish Pizza Beer• Wine• Cocktails Prime Rib • White Fish Stir Fry • Famous Stuffed Owl Burger . and More 356-6915 2 Blocks West of Boat Harbor All Photos by Connie Irland Atten- tion Hunters Send ~our Successful Hunt fhotos to The Lumber- jack 5~ November 21st Drop _your photos ott at our office or e-mail to: acclurnbejack @ _yahoo.corn