Plain sugar cookies gave way to elaborately iced creations. Orange, white and black icing was spread across the surface of a cookie, sprinkles topped it off, and all efforts were in hopes of creating the creepiest cookie.

Friday, the Union Program Council's After Hours committee hosted Creepy Cookie Creations in conjunction with UPC Films showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to kick off the Halloween weekend.

"Decorating your own cookie allows you to be creative," said Deanne Petersen, freshman in architecture. "It's also funny to see what your friends come up with."

While the K-State Student Union Courtyard hosted cookie creations, a different type of creation was underway two floors up. Students wore black fishnet stockings, wigs, neon tutus, gas masks, bras, boxer-briefs and mini skirts. They created their own outfits to celebrate the 30th annual showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

"The costumes are great," said Christina Ballew, UPC Films co-chair and sophomore in hotel and restaurant management. "It shows how creative our school is and it shows the different people who go to our school. It's fun, interesting, inappropriate and everyone has a great time."

Ballew said the midnight film allowed students to get involved not only through a costume contest, condom balloon race and a virgin, first-time viewers auction, but the event also served as an interactive film experience, where the audience could throw props at the screen and yell out vulgar statements. For Ballew, the night showed how diverse the campus was and how one commonality can unite a group of people.

"Not everyone is the same and not everyone has the same interests," she said. "I know I was never interested in this before, but it's great that so many people are. It just shows how our school can adapt to every different personality and how there is really something for everyone here."

With 30 years of success, UPC planned to continue their Rocky Horror Picture Show tradition. They wanted to continue to reach out to different groups of students and make the event more known with the passing years.

"It goes to show that we are putting on great, successful events that are reaching out to all different types of students, and they are keeping everyone involved," Ballew said. "If we weren't putting on good events we wouldn't be here, and it just shows that hard work has payed off after all these years and it just keeps getting bigger and better every year."

For one attendee, the progression of the event was evident. Dan Haller, senior in musical theater, has attended the midnight showing since high school and loved the Halloween alternative.

"It's more than just a movie," Haller said. "It's about the only place you can go where there are a bunch of sexual innuendos and jokes and you don't feel incredibly uncomfortable. It's something to do other than going out, getting hammered drunk at night, and it's the fun without the hangover. It's a great chance to break away from the normal Halloween haunted house, costume party, carving pumpkins or Trick-or-Treating."

Haller said while the crowds have changed and the costumes advanced to near nudity throughout the years, the core of the event remained.

"About the only thing that has changed significantly over the years is that there are a lot more virgins in the crowd — tons more virgins — there is usually two to one the other way," Haller said. "But other than that it's pretty much the same thing every year, same contest, same competition, but that's what makes it fun, and it never gets boring. Where else do you get to go throw stuff at a screen, blow up a condom on a stage, wear next to nothing and not get arrested?"