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Will your tattoos and piercings impact your future career?

By Jacob McCormick

They come in all shapes and sizes. Bugs, birds, dragons, skulls and anything else imaginable can be found on people's bodies. Whatever the design tattoos have become increasingly integrated into American society. However, this increase in popularity of tattoos and body piercings can have negative effects in the job market, with the possibility of employers taking the placement of a tattoo into consideration when hiring for a job.

History of the sock monkey

Stuffed animal created during the Great Depression

By Janie Boschma

What is nearly 100 years old, brown and fuzzy and has bright red lips? Give up? Think back to your childhood toy box, or maybe to the TV shows you used to watch, and you might remember the sock monkey, a stuffed brown monkey with a white face and blood red lips.

A really bad case of the Halloween hangover

Columnists reflects on holiday traditions from trick-or-treating to parties

By Scott Hoostal

Eighty-three percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 will celebrate Halloween this year, according to the Montreal Gazette. Then why did I find myself at 9 p.m. Halloween night carrying around a backpack full of books rather than a pillowcase full of candy? As I wondered this, I was stepping over smashed pumpkins.

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