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Room G240 in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway building remains eerily empty as students continue to pay for its furnishing.

Besides ghosts, goblins and evil witches, Halloween is the time for kids to rot their teeth out and satisfy their ultimate sugar rush. When I was a child, my parents would always triple-check the candy that I had collected in my trick-or-treat bag to make sure that some creepy person didn’t poison me.

When I was little, I believed that ghosts were friendly creatures with good senses of humor and a keen sense of fun. Oh, how deceiving those “Casper the Friendly Ghost” morning reruns were. Today, I honestly don’t know what to believe.

I did some ghost-hunting recently to dig into Orange County’s urban legends and to check out some of the area’s most haunted places. There are the usual campus legends and lore, and even some creepier places beyond our campus that are worth a visit.

Take a moment to think of a fairy tale. You may be conjuring images of prince charming, frog kisses, a castle, a villain or a strong man saving the princess. And they all lived happily ever after. Russian fairy tales, on the other hand, do not include a princess charming or a beautiful maiden; they include evil old witches who eat children.

Halloween not only bewitches the United States with trick-or-treating and jack-o-lanterns, this frightful yet delightful holiday has cast a spell on many countries, making All Hallows’ Eve a worldwide celebration. Some of these worldwide traditions have even crept their way into U.S. culture.

Engorged Eyeballs, Butterbeer, and Brittle Bones.

These hopeful jack-o-lanterns wait for you to pick them up. The one to the left hopes to become a wolf, the one in the middle hopes to be a Mickey Mouse and the one to the right just wants to be loved. Endless possibilities.

By Monica Luhar Staff Writer Besides ghosts, goblins, and evil witches, Halloween is the time for kids to rot their teeth out and satisfy their...

This week, I had originally planned on digging into an analysis of attraction; however, some recent beauty-centric events —namely a few Ralph Lauren photo fiascos — have gotten me a little side-tracked. So, attraction will just have to sit on the back burner this time around.

Beep. Beep. Beep. I toss and turn in my bed and see the alarm flashing the numbers 7:40 a.m. in the dark. Geez, am I late already?! I was supposed to meet my friend 10 minutes ago down the street so that we could catch the metro together from Plaza de España to Moncloa, the main metro stop for the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

Phi-Kappa-What? Everywhere on campus you’ll see letters from the Greek alphabet pasted on sweatshirts, tote bags, jackets, big wooden blocks and the ever-popular deep v-neck American Apparel tees. If you’re not in a fraternity or sorority, you’re probably wondering where these letters come from and what the importance of wearing them on campus is.