Friday, April 10

SAA brings 5 tons of snow to Bruin Plaza

Today Bruins will be able to frolic and play in the Eskimo way as the Student Alumni Association brings snow into Bruin Plaza. Although snow in Los Angeles has not occurred since a half-inch trickle in 1962, SAA is breaking that trend in its own way by giving campus a touch of what real winter is like for a day. Read more...


Students resurrect campus Buddhism

Raised by a Vietnamese Buddhist mother, Amie McCampbell never felt alienated from Buddhism. An altar with the Buddha’s likeness permanently sat in her parents’ home, she attended pagodas and wore a necklace with a tiny gold Buddha for years during high school. Read more...


Police will not make Village more appealing

Merchants and community organizers have pushed for the presence of foot police in Westwood, but their desires are prissy and excessive. The impetus behind the requests were two attempted burglaries in the Westwood Professional Building last month, along with merchants’ continued distaste for the homeless. Read more...


Academics finally think like students

Finally UCLA academics are showing some character. The College of Letters & Science’s one- and two-unit Fiat Lux seminars allow UCLA students to branch out from the mundane conventions of academia. Read more...


Letters to the Editor

Governor should not ignore will of voters You end your editorial with the comment that we should be pleased that a politician “follows his heart instead of his wallet.”Â (“Gov. Read more...



Briefs

Postmenopausal hormone therapy linked to breast cancer Results from the Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions Trial, a study done to examine the effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy, show that women who undergo hormone therapy experience an increase in breast density, one of the risk factors for breast cancer. Read more...