California Gov. Jerry Brown called for a special state legislature session next week to press for support for his revised reserve fund ballot proposal. Four years ago, the legislature approved a proposal for a new rainy day fund to be on the November 2014 ballot. Read more...
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April 17, 1:19 am
Revised rainy day fund proposes increased reserves
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April 17, 1:17 am
Westwood Thai restaurant the result of family’s journey
John Sungkamee struggled to adapt to his new surroundings when he first arrived in the U.S. from southern Thailand more than 20 years ago. It was his start working in restaurants that taught him how to interact with customers and gave him insight into how the business operated, he said. Read more...
Photo: At the Emporium Thai Cuisine on Westwood Boulevard, siblings from the Sungkamee family cook up Southern Thai specialties. The restaurant is well-known for its one-to-10 spiciness rating scale. The Sungkamee family, which immigrated to America by chance, specializes in the food business. (Evaneet Sidhu/Daily Bruin)
Campus, News, Student Government
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April 17, 1:15 am
GSA elections’ turnout reaches all-time high since 2009
Candidates from the Moving Forward slate swept the two officer seats they contested in this year’s unusually competitive graduate student government elections. Mike “Hershey” Hirshman, a UCLA Anderson School of Management student, was elected GSA president with a 963-510 vote. Read more...
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April 17, 1:13 am
Napolitano participates in Google Hangout with UC staff
University of California President Janet Napolitano met with a panel of five UC employees in a Google Hangout Wednesday to discuss issues ranging from campus climate to compensation and benefits. Read more...
Photo: Daily Bruin
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April 17, 1:12 am
Jimmy John’s sandwich restaurant to open near UCLA
Westwood Village will soon be home to the first Los Angeles franchise of the popular Midwestern sandwich chain Jimmy John’s. The restaurant will open in August in a vacant space on Westwood Boulevard next to D’Amore’s Pizza, just north of Lindbrook Drive, said Rick Chancellor, western region vice president for the McDevitt Company. Read more...
Campus, News, Student Government
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April 17, 12:49 am
Former Election Board member against shorter voting period
A former member of the undergraduate student government election board is formally challenging the current board’s decision to shorten the election voting period. Next week, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board plans to review a petition calling for the current elections calendar to be extended. Read more...
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April 17, 12:49 am
UCLA alumna, supporter of science Marjorie Crump dies at 89
Marjorie Eloise Lund Crump, a UCLA alumna and loyal supporter of the sciences at the university, died of natural causes on April 1 in Trumbull, Conn. Read more...
Photo: Marjorie Eloise Lund Crump