Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss agreed last week to meet with Westwood community leaders to discuss developer Alan Casden’s proposal to close part of Glendon Avenue for up to one year, but many say Weiss has been largely unresponsive to Westwood Village’s concerns about the $100 million project. Read more...

Imagine yourself in a world where copyright laws are taken way too far. A world in which you can’t play your CD for a friend. A world in which the childhood game of copycat can land you in jail. Read more...

JENNIFER SHEN/daily bruin Working the cultural beat | Fifth-year student Junko Marata was one of the performers in Poongmul, a type of traditional Korean folk music, in the annual UCLA Korean Culture Night. Read more...

After suffering through hundreds of tests themselves, high school students might finally be given the opportunity to turn the tables. It’s about time. Too many decisions about secondary education are made without the input of the very students the system is intended to serve. Read more...

President Bush proposed comprehensive reforms in the Pell Grant program last week to finance a new grant program for college students studying math and science, causing some higher education organizations to be concerned about the initiative’s scope and cost. Read more...

Sarah Tin, coordinator of CALPIRG’s hunger and homelessness relief program, looked to both a fellow volunteer and a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian for inspiration to lead nearly 100 college and high school students to combat hunger and homelessness in the Los Angeles area Saturday, during the organization’s 20th annual Hunger Cleanup. Read more...

Palestine Awareness Week starts today on campus, with different events planned through Thursday. The week will include presentations by professors, journalists and others who have visited this contested area of the Middle East. Read more...