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October means one thing for many Loyola students: Halloween. After a tiresome eight weeks dedicated to homework, pop quizzes and lengthy papers - not to mention a week of mid-terms packed so hard with late-night studying by students that an insomniac would feel well rested by comparison - Halloween provides students an escape from a fast-paced fall semester broken up only by a meager, one-day fall break.

It's amazing the lengths people will go through to make headlines and jeopardize their lives, in more ways than one. Just look at the "Balloon Boy Hoax" that not only transfixed the nation and world, but is single-handedly responsible for sabotaging what was suppose to be (last week) a productive weekend.

Thumbs Up It took twenty one years to discover the gloriousness that is pumpkin carving. Seriously it is good ol' fashion fun and baked pumpkin seeds are delicious. Two very big thumbs up. Not gonna lie, My Super Psycho Sweet 16 was great. There was a moment where it seemed like Xanadu meets a Flo Rider video, but it was a scarily hysterical, like Mean Girls combined with Scream -- so all in all not a bad MTV movie.

The global credit crisis of 2007-2009, a consequence of unregulated loaning and excessively low interest rates, has discouraged international investment in U.S. financial assets and debt securities. Decreasing confidence in American assets will mean less financing for the U.

Europe loves President Obama. With European approval rates as high as eighty-eight percent in countries such as France and ninety-two percent in Germany, there's no doubt that this is love. The October 9th awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama is just another demonstration, or perhaps a formal declaration, of Europe's obsession with Obama.

After Columbus Day, with the prospect of Thanksgiving Break an impossible speck of light in the distance and the effortless life of summer a mere intangible memory, we find ourselves buried beneath an ever-increasing pile of "stuff" to do. Midterms, papers, meetings, presentations, events -- it's enough to send even the most organized, responsible student running to the health center with the hope of being diagnosed with the swine flu.

Rush Limbaugh is a man known for being kicked off public broadcast systems, stating false facts, and being a blatant racist. On September 15, 2009, he made his reputation as a racist even stronger. On air he stated, "You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama's America the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,' and, of course, everybody says the white kid deserved it, he was born a racist, he's white.