<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3ry65e_0wCrATCh00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3ry65e_0wCrATCh00" width="1662" height="1247" ><figcaption>Students play spooky bingo and enjoy pizza Wednesday&nbsp;during the Ghouls, Grubs and Games social hosted by the Multicultural Student Center in the Cultural Center. Raven Osborne</figcaption></figure>The Cultural Center was packed with students playing Halloween-themed bingo with pumpkin-face chips for the Ghouls, Grubs and Games social Wednesday afternoon.The event was hosted by the Multicultural Student Center, and was its second social of the semester, which provided a variety of candies and pizza for students to enjoy.Sarah Accius and Alyssa Lee-Brown, Registered Student Organization and outreach directors, said that the soirée was pushed back due to Hurricane Milton, but that as things have subsided, they thought it would be a good time for the event to go on as previously planned.“Of course, we are thinking about the safety of all the students, and the first week we’re coming back, we’re not expecting necessarily a lot of people, but I also didn’t think we’d see a huge decline in people showing up,” Accius said.Accius said after Milton, she didn’t think MSC would see much of an attendance decline at its events, as Wednesdays tend to be busier days in the Student Union's Cultural Center.Accius and Lee-Brown are both in charge of running and planning the social events that MSC hosts on Wednesdays, Accius said."We go back and forth on ideas and go with whatever sticks,” Accius said. “I knew I had bingo cards, and it was Halloween, so it’s a pretty easy process.” Lee-Brown said that while promotion for the event was done later due to the storm and it being the second social of the year, the number of attendees was as she expected.“It was expected to be less people,” Lee-Brown said. “But I feel like it was really good, given all the circumstances.” Lee-Brown said the events are meant to be fun and create a calm environment to get people to talk to people they wouldn’t normally talk to otherwise. While MSC had to postpone some events due to Hurricane Milton, Lee-Brown said, it will be continuing the rest of October's events as scheduled.MSC will also be posting updates for this month and November’s events on its Instagram, Lee-Brown said.Hellena Kyama, freshman biology major, said she was in the library studying before she had the thought to stop in with her friend who told her about the event.“One of my friends saw the Instagram post,” Kyama said. “It was fun and relaxing from all the stress.” Kyama said she was hoping to make connections by coming to this event in particular. She said after the event was over, she stayed longer to talk to other attendees who also stayed, as well as buy an MSC shirt and sweatpants. “I was just making friends,” Kyama said. “I don’t know, getting to know people is not easy.” Lee-Brown also said that attending events can help students branch out."It's about learning what UCF has to offer," Lee-Brown said. "Whether that's MSC or other organizations. We have people from everywhere, nobody here is the same, so I feel like it's just a nice setting." </div></body>

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UCF students play spooky-themed games at Ghouls, Grubs and Games Social

The Cultural Center was packed with students playing Halloween-themed bingo with pumpkin-face chips for the Ghouls, Grubs and Games social Wednesday afternoon. The event was hosted by the Multicultural Student Center, and was its second social of the semester, which provided a variety of candies and pizza for students to enjoy.