You’ve picked out your costume, purchased the appropriate hair piece, face paint and/or mask. Now you have to choose where to flaunt your incredibly well planned outfit. Here are some events to check out on campus and around the city.

Another aesthetic aspect to add to the bedazzled phoenix displayed in Harney Plaza is the compass rose, a design that adorns the pavement between Phelan Hall and the Market cafeteria.

Through study abroad opportunities and service learning trips, senior Ivana Rosas has seen many countries including Nicaragua, El Salvador, and France. Rosas, an international studies major focusing on the environment and development, considers herself a citizen of the world.

In response to the sweeping budget cuts that have left many California State University (CSU) and University of California (UC) students struggling to enroll in all of the classes they need, USF’s College of Arts and Science has created "USF Steps Up."

Students who live on campus and use Flexi should have about $900 left according to a week by week budget created by Jon Torres, senior cafe manager of Bon Appetit.

Campus Activities Board (CAB) announced last week that hip-hop group N.E.R.D. (No One Ever Really Dies) will perform at USF’s homecoming concert on Friday Nov. 6. B.o.B (aka Bobby Ray Simmons) will open for N.E.R.D.

While most students headed to their classes on campus last Wednesday, some traveled 17 miles across the bay to tour San Quentin, a maximum security state prison in Marin county.

After gathering feedback from USF students and faculty last December, Jason Pontius and his Oakland-based company White Whale have been redesigning USF’s website.

Two hundred and fifty freshmen and some of their parents traveled to San Francisco during the first weekend in July to attend Discover USF and participate in the GO (Get Oriented) Game, two new orientation programs that were created in an effort to make the freshman summer orientation friendlier and more effective to incoming students.

Former USF student Ryan Caskey was arrested last spring on four accounts of rape and assault against four other USF students.