This articles discusses rape plot on TV. It Contains Spoilers for American Horror Story, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, and Scandal.

October is a tricky month for consumers, going well beyond questionable Halloween costumes to the slew of products emblazoned with a pink ribbon. The month is marked by the pink products, so much so that it has been dubbed "Pinktober," where many companies seemingly champion breast cancer awareness and fundraising. But as consumers, it is important to carefully analyze the contributions made to such a publicized industry.

On a recent episode of "The Ellen Degeneres Show", Ellen asked Caitlyn Jenner her opinion on gay marriage. Jenner replied ambiguously, “If the word marriage is really that important to you, I can go with it.”

If you follow American politics even on a cursory level, you’ve no doubt been barraged by images of Donald Trump’s face (and hair) in your newsfeed. Yet more interestingly, you’ve probably also been hearing the name Bernie Sanders. For most he is a new name that seemingly came from nowhere and is taking American politics by storm. Not so long ago, Hillary Clinton was the assumed Democratic candidate and likely next president of the United States.

"Comté is not a brand,” says Aurélia Chimier, communications director for one of France’s most successful cheeses. “Comté is a heritage.”

They have become part of the Parisian cultural legend — those history-battered, book-cluttered green boxes that run along the pavement on the banks of the Seine. To local Parisians, the Seine booksellers are called bouquinistes — flogging books, old newspapers, magazines, posters, maps, postcards and assorted other trinkets. It’s hard to imagine Paris without them.

When the world calls, when there is a crisis somewhere, AUP alumni Sean Casey is the first to go. This was highlighted by University President Celeste Schenck  during her state of the union speech, and it is hard to disagree.

"I've been in Paris for seven years now and I haven’t spent a dime on anything.” André Inora, a remarkable geography student with outstanding grades at La Sorbonne University, has been squatting empty apartments since his arrival in France in 2007. These were seven years of “instructive”squatting, as he explains that without a rent to pay each month “you have more time to focus on what really matters.”

A recent graduate from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Lisa Curtis relocated to a remote village in the Western African country of Niger. While volunteering as a member of the Peace Corps in 2010, Curtis discovered the almost miraculous effects of a locally grown plant called moringa. One of the few edible plants that can survive the harsh and arid climate of Niger, especially during times of famine, the moringa plant is also rich with vitamins, iron and calcium necessary to combat malnutrition.