This post was updated Aug. 15 at 7:14 p.m. UCLA researchers found in a recent study that men who exhibited greater conformity to traditional gender roles tend to consume more meat and are less willing to adopt a vegetarian diet, whereas women did not demonstrate the same pattern. Read more...
Photo: (Katelyn Dang/Illustrations director)
This post was updated Aug. 14 at 2:16 p.m. New businesses are opening their doors in Westwood Village following a year of pandemic-related business closures and hardships. Read more...
Photo: New businesses are coming to Westwood with at least five new ones since April. The recent openings followed a year of pandemic-related hardships and closures for operators. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Aug. 15 at 7:21 p.m. University police are looking for a suspect who reportedly attempted to rob and attack an individual Tuesday afternoon. Read more...
This post was updated Aug. 10 at 3:50 p.m. Los Angeles City Council candidates discussed their platforms on addressing homelessness and housing insecurity at a public forum Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Candidates for LA City Council District 5 discussed homelessness and housing insecurity over Zoom on Thursday. The public forum was hosted by the North Westwood Neighborhood Council. (Courtesy of Furkan Yalcin)
This post was updated Aug. 8 at 9:51 p.m. Applications for California’s COVID-19 rent relief program remain closed for Westwood and some parts of the greater Los Angeles area despite an increase in financial assistance to the program. Read more...
Photo: Gov. Gavin Newsom increased assistance to California’s $5.2 billion rent relief program. Despite being the largest rent relief program in the nation, applications are still closed for Westwood residents. (Anika Chakrabarti/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Aug. 8 at 10:07 p.m. When Kakeru Iwabuchi learned the 2020 Summer Olympics would be held in Tokyo, he was ecstatic. Iwabuchi, a fourth-year sociology student from Japan, said he even applied to be an Olympic volunteer, hoping to support the Games. Read more...
Photo: Japanese international students have mixed feelings about Tokyo’s decision to proceed with hosting the Olympic Games in July despite an ongoing state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic and record numbers of daily infections. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Aug. 8 at 9:46 p.m. UCLA researchers tested water for environmental hazards affecting ocean life following a recent sewage spill in the Santa Monica Bay. Read more...
Photo: Seventeen million gallons of untreated sewage spilled from the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant into Santa Monica Bay in July, prompting the closure of several beaches and some UCLA researchers to take action. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin)
