Wednesday, April 29

Cafe whips up own identity

On a trip to the Espresso Roma Café, students can often find themselves bumping into groups of businessmen in suits chattering away about stock prices and indexes. Read more...


On-campus restaurants ponder price flux

The future of UCLA’s food model is mostly contingent on the Food Services Master Plan and the ASUCLA fee referendum. As it stands, the campus’ food model is a mixture of privately contracted and university-operated restaurants. Read more...


Fear and loathing of U.S. health care

Rapidly closing in on the Tijuana border, having plowed over the 200-mile stretch of sacred Indian burial ground called Highway 5 from Los Angeles, the knuckles of the passengers whitened with fear and trembling. Read more...


News briefs

L.A. County salaries heavily boosted by overtime A new report on overtime costs found that more than 3,000 of the county’s 90,000 employees boosted their salaries by 50 percent or more in overtime pay in January. Read more...


Letter to the editor

Masturbation not a proper topic for quality newspaper I found Lara Loewenstein’s column, “Bone up on stimulating masturbation techniques,” in the Feb. 28 Viewpoint section utterly distasteful. Read more...


News briefs

Traveling sneaker exhibit highlights shoe history A traveling exhibit of nearly 200 pairs of sneakers has been created by a 45-year-old Los Angeles County social worker. Read more...


UCLA hosts panel to discuss likelihood of draft

Student and citizen concern over the threat of a military draft prompted a panel discussion Saturday morning at the James West Alumni Center. Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, a ranking member of both the House Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee, presented the first address on the subject. Read more...