Saturday, October 24

Media program sees weak response

Preliminary results from UCLA’s “Get Legal” campaign indicate that although students have begun to use the program, it has gotten off to a slow start. Get Legal, a program designed to combat online media piracy, involves a one-year agreement with digital-media vendors CDigix, iTunes and Mindawn, to provide UCLA students with legal avenues for obtaining entertainment media. Read more...


Markets may open locally

A new farmers’ market is on its way to Brentwood while plans are in the works to bring a market back to Westwood Village, two months after the departure of the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market. Read more...




State bill pushes groups to divest

With an overwhelming chorus of “aye” votes, the California Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday that would require state public retirement systems to divest from companies with holdings in Sudan. Read more...


UC admits record numbers

A record 37,000 students who were offered admission to a University of California campus this fall chose to enroll, and 4,852 of them will be attending UCLA. Read more...


News brief: Gubernatorial candidate Westly’s wife visits UCLA

No speeches or large rallies accompanied Anita Yu Westly’s stop at UCLA Wednesday. Instead, Yu Westly, wife of Democratic gubernatorial candidate and State Controller Steve Westly, opted for a small, informal luncheon with students and faculty, discussing the campaign issues as they arose in conversation. Read more...