Wall Street echoed a long-standing presidential election trend last week as news of the incumbents’ re-election bolstered the market. On Nov. 4, for the second straight day in a row, investors rallied as oil prices fell and the Dow Jones Industrial consequently gained more than 177 points for its best day in 2004. Read more...

The merger of AT&T Wireless and Cingular means Verizon is no longer the easy bet when it comes to great cell phone coverage in the UCLA area. Read more...

L.A. school district still uses dirty buses The school district still has 1,200 diesel-belching buses on the road despite a year-old effort to get rid of the old buses. Read more...

CALPIRG pledge week begins Members of the California Public Interest Research Group will begin the group’s quarterly campaign of collecting $5 pledges from students throughout the week. Read more...

A flurry of reports have detailed how an “unimpressive” youth population “didn’t rock” the vote last Tuesday. All cited a statistic claiming the proportion of 18- to 29-year-olds voting this year was about the same percentage as in 2000. Read more...

Tens of thousands of students pass by the Fowler Museum every day on their way to and from class, but not many attend the exhibits. Students who can actually locate the off-campus Hammer Museum probably don’t know the museum hosted a reading by David Foster Wallace last Friday and Jonathan Franzen is scheduled to speak in December. Read more...

A divided country begets a divided home. President Bush’s close victory over Sen. John Kerry Tuesday served to highlight the political rift gripping the nation and my apartment. Read more...