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 onto the 405. Did you know that? And someone told me that those aren’t Jim Morrison’s acid tabs on that locker in Math Sciences. And […]
Author Archives: Daniel Atherton
If grad school’s the next stop, take a detour
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 quarters at UCLA, we spend our time musing about the unanswerable questions, such as “Have I spent my time here wisely?”, “Have I made the […]
Impeach the president! Turns out, it's possible.
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 see him out of office. After all, according to the most recent polls, only between 29 percent and 33 percent of Americans approve of the […]
Wage increase is long overdue
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, if you’re reading this column you most likely don’t work for Halliburton or reside in the highest tax brackets, and the government isn’t interested in […]
Elections need to be fun, not flat
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 announced. Slowly, word will leak that a winner has been declared, at which point losing candidates will set fire to Meyerhoff Park, forcing the new […]
All Web content must be treated equal
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, and perusing the message boards at BigCorporationsSuck.org. Suddenly, to your mystification, the download comes to a crawl, the basketball stream cuts out, and the message […]
Iran just wants to play with the big boys
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 India and Pakistan over Kashmir, two of the world’s most bitter enemies have come to the brink of nuclear war, and neither has pulled the […]