Turn off the "fun"

Students ready for TV-Turnoff Week

By Maja Petersen

The average American household has 2.55 people in it and 2.73 television sets, according to 2006 Nielsen statistics released by the TV-Turnoff Network. The statistics also show that the TV is on more than eight hours a day in the average American home and that the average American watches four hours and 35 minutes a day.

The history of ... Spider-Man

By Rob Peterson

He doesn't leap tall buildings in a single bound. He doesn't have loads of high-tech gadgets. He can't set himself on fire or shoot laser beams from his eyes or fly. No, Peter Benjamin Parker isn't even a full-grown adult -- he's a normal, shy, compassionate teenager.

Ask Anything

This week's columnist is: ROB

By Rob Peterson

Dear Ask Anything, I'm in a math class this semester and trying to transfer pounds into kilograms. Why the heck doesn't the United States use the metric system? Sincerely, Aggravated over Arithmetic