Driveway parking may be punished
The perpetual problem of parking in Westwood has reared its ugly
head again.
This time the issue is the common practice of “apron
parking,” where residents of the North Village park their
vehicles in driveways, thereby blocking the sidewalk and street
““ a practice that is illegal.
Hundreds of people living west of campus ““ mostly students
““ park this way. Take away that option and hundreds of
students will be ticketed and will have to find another place to
park in an already over-saturated Westwood.
Los Angeles has not made a decision on “apron
parking” yet, but if enforcement of the ban on this kind of
parking goes into effect, it will be within the next month. This is
undeniably a huge issue that needs to be addressed by not only our
student leaders, but administrators and L.A. City Council member
Jack Weiss alike.
More parking on campus seems to be the likely solution until you
consider the agreement UCLA has with the city to cap its parking in
order to limit traffic and pollution. There’s a ceiling on
how much parking UCLA can offer and we’re close to that
limit.
We need to empower the North Village as an advocacy group for
student issues, work with the City of Los Angeles, and at the very
least, educate students on this issue that threatens
students’ way of life.
P.C. Zai USAC Facilities commissioner
Slate merely creates facade of diversity
The article “Diversity key to Students First!”
flagrantly crossed the line from news to editorial in passing off
highly controversial assertions as fact (News, May 30).
The very headline implies that Bruins United, the chief
competitor of Students First!, does not value diversity.
Can Students First!, a slate that harvests most of its
candidates from a select set of ethnic and cultural student groups
through blatant tokenism, be characterized as diverse? Who recalls
the last time they ran an engineer, a pre-med, a Jewish or Greek
student, or a straight white male like myself?
Jacob Leven Second-year, mechanical
engineering