Saturday, October 3


UCLA surgeon sued for harassment

Update Appended Two former UCLA employees have filed a lawsuit against UCLA surgeon Gerald Buckberg and the UC Regents, alleging Buckberg had sexually harassed them and that when they complained, they were retaliated against. Read more...



UCLA community shows concern over SARS

Anne Cheung, a first-year psychology student, spent spring break in Hong Kong with her family. Her mother wanted her there to celebrate her twentieth birthday. Cheung wasn’t concerned about severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, until she stepped off the plane and walked onto the streets of Hong Kong, where everyone had on a mask and fear of the virus was rampant. Read more...



BID audit invalid, chairman says

The Westwood Village Community Alliance met Wednesday to discuss the results of its audit, released Tuesday, with local community organizers and merchants. The private auditing firm Cannon and Company was hired to audit the WVCA, the title maintained by the previous Business Improvement District, for the three fiscal years in which it failed to audit itself. Read more...