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Sexy Indians, bodacious belly dancers and barely dressed girls create the new Halloween ambience. Trick-or-treating has become old news and the flame of fun has burnt out making way for a whole new tradition. Before when we would hear Halloween we would think of cute toddlers in cow costumes or maybe little Tinker Bells carrying a candy-filled pumpkin basket.
As many of us were taught in grade school, cheating on tests and homework is unacceptable, but copying notes from fellow classmates was for the most part always allowed. After all, copying notes from a classmate who took notes from a lecture given by a teacher is not copying because it is information given by the teacher for the students.
KECC, our campus radio station has been one of the classes that has been affected due to the cutbacks it was removed and made to provide more space for the bookstore. Professor Douglas Marston, KECC adviser, said the station will be shut down this semester and will be shut down next semester as well.
Carving pumpkins, trick or treating and dressing up to attend school are all things that almost all children do for Halloween and very few adults ever do. The only time one ever sees an adult carving a pumpkin is when they are helping one of their children in an effort to prevent a child from losing a finger, so they really aren't doing it for themselves.
What is the Society of Music? The Society of Music is an organization established to ensure availability of music programs and resources to students. We try to give back to the department to further help students succeed in their musical endeavors. The club is also beneficial for student musicians to network with their peers.
As the end of October looms, one can expect the usual Halloween festivities, which so often are filled with head turning costumes. Many of these costumes contest the boundaries of what is deemed appropriate or not. The costume package that is making headlines this year comes with an orange jumpsuit with "illegal alien" across the chest, a space alien mask, a fake green card, a handlebar mustache and a baseball cap.
People do the dumbest things to get noticed, between the wife swaps and Paris Hilton looking for a new best friend, we are presented with a family who take their 15 minutes of fame to the extreme. For two hours on October 15 millions of people had their eyes glued to the television to find out the fate of Falcon Heene, a 6-year-old boy who was reported to be missing in a giant mylar balloon that had taken off from the Heene's family backyard in Colorado.