Daniel Atherton

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• Do everything – there's still time

  June 12, 2006 at midnight

  It’s too bad I’m graduating this week. I just found out that Bunche Hall has actually always faced the same direction and was never rotated because it was shining glare ...

• If grad school’s the next stop, take a detour

  June 5, 2006 at midnight

  We get contemplative as our college careers come careening to a close. Instead of focusing solely on papers, finals and vacation plans like we have at the end of previous ...

• Impeach the president! Turns out, it's possible.

  May 22, 2006 at midnight

  I would bet a few dollars that most of you are not particularly pleased with the president’s performance at the moment. I’d also bet many of you would like to ...

• Wage increase is long overdue

  May 15, 2006 at midnight

  With gas now approaching $800 per gallon, and your drug dealer turning the screws just as you’re needing your end-of-the-quarter fix, you’re probably finding your wallet uncomfortably empty nowadays. Sadly, ...

• Elections need to be fun, not flat

  May 11, 2006 at midnight

  Tonight, Undergraduate Students Association Council elections will come to a nail-biting end. Members of opposing slates will gather in front of Kerckhoff Hall to wait for the results to be ...

• All Web content must be treated equal

  May 1, 2006 at midnight

  It’s late on a Monday night. You have homework to do, but instead, you’re downloading some Rage Against the Machine, watching the end of the UCLA-Gonzaga game again on YouTube, ...

• Iran just wants to play with the big boys

  April 24, 2006 at midnight

  During the Cold War, the two most heavily armed militaries the world had ever seen stared each other down, and neither fired a shot. During the current quasi-Cold War between ...

• L.A.’s homeless deserve our notice, help

  April 17, 2006 at midnight

  We avoid numbers just like we try to avoid the people they quantify: • 88,000: the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County – three and a half times ...

• Insurance’s claims give shallow comfort

  April 10, 2006 at midnight

  As New Orleans residents begin to inch back into the waterlogged city they used to call home, attempting to find new ways to live their old lives, the companies that ...

• It’s about time we keep our daylight

  April 3, 2006 at midnight

  On a Saturday night in Indiana, Armageddon looms. “This is like Y2K,” Purdue University information technology spokesman Steve Tally said to Wired News, “except this one is really happening.” I, ...