Friday, December 19

LA Metro discusses costs of Sepulveda Transit Corridor alternatives at May meeting

Los Angeles Metro officials discussed preliminary costs and scheduling for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project at a May community meeting Thursday. The meeting, held at the Westwood United Methodist Church, included information stations about the different stages of the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project – a plan to expand accessible public transit from the San Fernando Valley to West LA through the Sepulveda Pass – as well as a presentation and Q&A session with LA Metro. Read more...

Photo: Community meeting attendees hear a presentation about costs and scheduling for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project. The LA Metro plans to connect the Westside and San Fernando Valley through either a monorail or heavy rail transit route. (Gabrielle Gillette/Daily Bruin senior staff)



Maya Abdallah went on 9 day hunger strike to encourage UCLA to divest, disclose

Maya Abdallah stopped eating May 9 in support of Palestine. Eight days later, she left campus in an ambulance after losing consciousness from hunger. Abdallah, a third-year film and television student, went on a hunger strike to demand that the university divest from companies associated with the Israeli military and disclose its financial investments. Read more...

Photo: Maya Abdallah, a third-year film and television student, wears a shirt marking the seventh day of her hunger strike. Abdallah went on a nine-day hunger strike to demand that the university divest from companies associated with the Israeli military and disclose its investments. (Courtesy of Maya Abdallah)


Los Angeles Metro names new chief to lead in-house police force

This post was updated June 1 at 11:59 p.m. Los Angeles Metro will soon have its first chief of police and emergency management. Metro announced in a May 7 statement that William Scott, who was the San Francisco Police Department’s chief for eight years and worked for LAPD for 27 years, will lead the new Transit Community Public Safety Department. Read more...

Photo: A Los Angeles Metro train waits at a station. Metro appointed its first chief of police and emergency management in May. (Daily Bruin file photo)


NWWNC Q&A: Student member Arjun Pathiyal discusses important issues, goals for Westwood

This post was updated June 2 at 12:03 a.m. Arjun Pathiyal won a position on the North Westwood Neighborhood Council as an undergraduate student board member in April. Read more...

Photo: Arjun Pathiyal is pictured. The second-year political science student became an undergraduate student board member on the North Westwood Neighborhood Council in April. (Courtesy of Arjun Pathiyal)


UCLA researchers develop drug to counteract effects of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke

UCLA researchers have developed a drug that counteracts the impaired cognition caused by Alzheimer’s disease and reestablishes brain connections following strokes in mice. The team began searching around six years ago for a molecule that would induce gamma oscillations – natural brain waves that are involved in memory, said Varghese John, the director of the Drug Discovery Laboratory at UCLA. Read more...

Photo: (Helen Sanders/Daily Bruin staff)


North Westwood Neighborhood Council requests budget increase

The North Westwood Neighborhood Council requested a budget increase from the city of Los Angeles during its March meeting to enhance its ability to allocate money to the Westwood community. Read more...

Photo: Broxton Plaza is pictured. The North Westwood Neighborhood Council requested a budget increase from the city of Los Angeles to better fund local initiatives. (Daily Bruin file photo)



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