ZOMBIES: The living dead lead a march on Ring Road in response to Yudof’s “cemetery” comment.

OBESITY: Scientists at UCI research chemical cause of obesity, found in different kinds of plastic packaging.

POLICE: Controversy surrounds the police response and reaction to a student protest at UC Santa Cruz.

BUSINESS: Companies like Disneyland, Starbucks and Coca-Cola help their customers help others.

MONEY: While much of UC loses money, Yudof has claimed that the Cal Grants are safe. But are they?

ULTIMATE: UCI club frisbee attracts newcomers and fanatics alike to the growing alternative sport.

SOCCER: No. 19 ranked UCI falls to No. 4 UCSB in double overtime on Halloween night.

Many of us envy the fame and appeal of celebrities; the star treatment, the notoriety, and the fans. If we don’t envy, many of us are intrigued by the attention and support they receive. Then, one night every year most of us dress up as these “stars” for fun and for show. While many argue that Halloween is a get out of jail free card for girls to dress slutty, it offers us an opportunity to get the same attention as those who we dress up as. For one night, we are in their shoes.

PLAYOFFS: UCI qualifies by beating Long Beach State and geting help from Cal State Fullerton, who beats Pacific.

In Culiacan, Mexico —a hub of the Mexican narc-trade — Jose Espinoza produces works of art for many of the areas wealthiest, and most notorious, citizens. From The Birth of Venus in the domed ceiling over a Jacuzzi to twenty-foot-tall portraits of flamenco dancers to exquisite religious imagery surrounding the graves of drug-trade casualties, his works add a classical beauty to the mansions and mausoleums begotten by the local trade in heroin and marijuana.

FAILURE: Mira Nair’s new Amelia Earheart biopic never manages to make it off the runway.

THEATRE: UCI Drama production of “The Laramie Project” tackles issues like gay rights and hate crimes.