Sunday, April 12



Real estate project’s future uncertain

Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss said he will oppose Casden Properties’ plan for the construction of a multimillion dollar project in Westwood, after the firm’s vice president and a group of subcontractors working with the firm were indicted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for conspiring to violate campaign financing laws. Read more...


Master plan to aid campus cyclists

At a university that has traditionally valued diversity, officials are pursuing measures to increase the presence of an oft-neglected minority within the car-centric metropolis of Los Angeles ““ bike users. Read more...



Africa devastated by disease

In what has become the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, sub-Saharan Africa alone is home to more than 3 million HIV/AIDS-related deaths during 2003 ““ twice the number of the rest of the world combined. Read more...


World AIDS Day draws global attention to epidemic

The first time Adam Vartanian, a fourth-year computer science and engineering student, encountered someone with AIDS, he was in kindergarten. Though he was not aware of it at the time, Vartanian’s elementary school teacher from kindergarten through second grade had contracted AIDS. Read more...