Students walking in Westwood will be able to stop for a break and refreshments on the corner of Le Conte Avenue and Westwood Boulevard on June 5. Read more...
Photo: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council gave $1,500 in a neighborhood purpose grant to the Graduate Students Association to fund Places for the People, an event to utilize green spaces in Westwood. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA administrators revised security camera policies to include more specific guidelines for camera operators and background checks. The revised security camera policy seeks to promote security by creating a centralized database of recorded images and establishing guidelines for the removal of cameras that are not compliant with the new policy, said Michael Beck, administrative vice chancellor, in an email announcement May 20. Read more...
Photo: UCLA is seeking student feedback on its new security camera policy, said Executive Vice Chancellor Michael Beck (pictured) in an email sent to students. Students held a town hall to voice their concerns about the policy in October 2018. (Ashley Kenney/Daily Bruin)
or Jan Reiff, activism means caring about issues beyond one’s self and then acting to make positive change on those issues. “It’s where you harness your emotions and your strong feelings to figure out how to make that turn into something,” said Reiff, a history professor. Read more...
Photo: Marcus Hunter, the African American studies department chair and a sociology professor said ethnic studies emerged thanks to student activism. Hunter also coined the hashtag Black Lives Matter. (Ashley Kenney/Daily Bruin)
The Village is quiet. Blinking lights illuminate “Westwood” on top of the observatory tower overlooking the undeveloped land of Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres in 1925. Read more...
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Books were tossed from library shelves. Asbestos rained from ceilings. Windows broke and tiles and bricks came loose across campus. Buildings flooded and chemicals spilled. Students living in apartments gathered in the streets to wait out the power outage together. Read more...
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Researchers from UCLA and USC are researching the link between gut microbes and autism to better understand autism and its potential causes. Emeran Mayer, a professor of medicine, physiology, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA, and Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, an associate professor of psychology at University of Southern California, received a three-year $808,000 grant from the United States Department of Defense to analyze gut microbiome abnormalities in patients with autism. Read more...
Photo: Emeran Mayer, a professor at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, and Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, an associate professor of psychology at USC, received an $808,000 grant from the United States Department of Defense to analyze gut microbiome abnormalities in patients with autism. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Westwood Village saw an increase in theft and burglary as well as a decrease in robberies and aggravated assault from 2018-2019, according to a Los Angeles Police Department report. Read more...
Photo: A Los Angeles Police Department report indicated a 37% increase in part one crimes in the Westwood Village area when compared with counts from January 2018 to May 2018. Part one crimes include armed robberies, aggravated assault, burglaries and burglary theft from motorized vehicles. (Daily Bruin file photo)
