Alpha Delta Upset Fellow Frat Bros Also Dressing Like The Joker For Halloween

Story by Hilary Stohs-Krause 

| Published Oct 28, 2008

Jason Harris is pissed.

The Alpha Delta freshman had the perfect costume planned out for Halloween, he thought.

In years past, he’d donned such showstoppers as The Dude from “The Big Lebowski,” Chris Farley and Jesus Christ, but this year he was in college, and in a fraternity, no less, and knew he had to step it up a notch. 

He poured over the Internet, searching for just the right thing. Then he realized with startling clarity the ideal costume: The Joker.

“He had all the necessary characteristics for a good Halloween costume,” Harris said. “Villain, insane and bad makeup. Plus, Heath Ledger died, so I thought it’d be a nice tribute.”

And since the movie had been out for a while, he also figured it wouldn’t be at the top of people’s lists.

Not true.

Harris went on the A-Delt Web forum one day and saw a thread titled “Halloween Costumes.” He quickly noticed a pattern.

“A full 80 percent of my frat brothers are planning to be the Joker,” he said disgustedly. “They were even talking about getting a picture of us all together at the beginning of the night.”

Harris said he was bitterly disappointed.

“I even had all the materials already,” he said. “The face paint, the hair dye, the outfit … I put a lot of effort into this, wanting to make it as realistic as possible.”

A theater major, Harris said he’d been employing “the method” for the last few weeks to really get into the part.

“I think we’ve memorized like every Batman movie ever made,” his roommate Kyle Weber said. “We got a pirated copy of the new one on eBay.”

Harris knows every scar story by heart and thinks he has a pretty good handle on the voice.

“I was going to carry around a pencil and keep asking people for my phone call,” he said proudly. “But it’s totally useless now. I hate going to parties and seeing everyone dressed the same way I am. Fuck that.”

Harris didn’t have a backup – in fact, he said, he thinks he’s just going to ignore Halloween altogether.
 
“Fucking everyone is going as the goddamn Joker,” he said, lighting a cigarette angrily outside his frat house. “Seriously?”

A fraternity brother standing nearby clapped him on the back and said, “Why so serious, bro?” He then laughed and continued on his way.

Harris just stood there.