Despite his overall impression that “things went absolutely fantastically” at this year’s Freakfest, there was one thing that Downtown Ald. Mike Verveer couldn’t help notice was missing, he said.
For the third year in a row â?? or ever since the city chose to tame the Halloween event on State Street by gating it off and charging admission â?? too many UW-Madison students are choosing to skip Freakfest the way they might cut an unpopular class, he said.