Sunday, April 5

Westwood business owners struggle to obtain liquor licenses

If local workers want to get cocktails at happy hour after work, they have limited options in Westwood Village. The Westwood Neighborhood Council, which advises the city on alcohol permit applications, imposes conditions on businesses’ alcohol sales because state guidelines restrict the number of businesses that can sell alcohol in the district. Read more...

Photo: The Westwood Neighborhood Council originally recommended not allowing SpireWorks an alcohol permit, but then voted to allow it to sell beer and wine. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin staff)



UCLA students protest Trump at Los Angeles Women’s March

UCLA students joined hundreds of thousands of people in the Los Angeles Women’s March on Saturday in support of rights for women and minorities. Buses organized by several undergraduate student government offices dropped students off at Pershing Square at around 8 a.m. Read more...

Photo: Hundreds of thousands of people participated in the Los Angeles Women’s March Saturday. UCLA students traveled to Pershing Square to join the march and make their voices heard. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)


EVP office launches campaign to boost political engagement in youths

Undergraduate student leaders are encouraging UCLA students to be more involved in politics. The undergraduate student government external vice president’s office held Thursday the first event for its new campaign, 2017: Millennials Take Charge. Read more...

Photo: Political leaders spoke to students about political engagement at a panel hosted by the USAC external vice president’s office Thursday. (Esmerelda Lopez/Daily Bruin)


Medical school alumnus and professor emeritus dies at age 87

Ronald Reisner rarely missed a basketball game coached by John Wooden. He cheered the team on with his family and when Wooden’s games were over, his support of UCLA continued for decades in the medical school. Read more...

Photo: Ronald Reisner, a UCLA alumnus and professor emeritus of medicine/dermatology at the UCLA Medical School, died from Alzheimer’s disease Jan. 13. He was 87. (Courtesy of David Reisner)


Hundreds of students march in Westwood to protest Trump’s inauguration

About 250 protesters flooded the streets of Westwood after President Donald Trump took the oath of office Friday. The crowd gathered in front of Powell Library before marching down Westwood Boulevard to its intersection with Wilshire Boulevard. Read more...

Photo: A crowd of about 250 walked in the middle of Westwood Boulevard in protest of President Donald Trump. Protesters called on students to walkout of class on Inauguration Day. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)


Researcher fears Trump presidency will hurt HIV research, LGBTQ community

Justin Akin spent years watching his friends and colleagues die from HIV/AIDS, only to discover in 1990 that he also carried the disease. “I spent the ’80s deciding I wouldn’t get tested because I didn’t want to know … if I was going to die,” said Akin, the administrative director at the UCLA Center for HIV Prevention Research. Read more...

Photo: Justin Akin, administrative director at the UCLA Center for HIV Prevention Research, is an activist for the LGBTQ community and HIV-positive himself. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)