Another Halloween comes around, another Heaven and Hell, another Sweet and Nasty, and amid these festivities, we miss another opportunity to discuss the racial implications behind students’ choices in Halloween costumes. In recent years, college students around the country have initiated dialogue and action regarding offensive Halloween costumes. We would like to encourage our fellow students at Harvard to join the movement this year: Choose respect over insensitive humor when assembling your costumes. Even more importantly, take this opportunity to educate yourself. Engage in dialogue about why certain costumes can be perceived as offensive and how humor and caricature have historically been used to perpetuate racial and cultural stereotypes. In other words, we would like our campus to discuss how Halloween costumes can serve as mechanisms for cultural appropriation.