Friday, May 1

Westwood vendors want committee to reorganize

Merchants who want to see Westwood as it was when the Village was so busy during the weekends it was known as “Times Square West” remain frustrated with the board advocating their interests and believe it needs to be reorganized. Read more...


Editorial: Audit is untimely, politically spurred

Ward Connerly has suggested the board of regents conduct an external audit of the effects of comprehensive review on admissions policy. This is not surprising. Comprehensive review, used to admit the freshman class of 2002-03, allows the university to look at things such as personal challenges and life experience, which often define a person’s potential better than academic statistics alone, under the new admission policy. Read more...



Briefs

One twin has surgery; both in stable condition at UCLA Both Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez remain in serious condition with stable vital signs in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital. Read more...


Bush fundraises in Westwood

While Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon egged on President Bush to stick with him during his campaign, demonstrators collected outside the Regency Club on Saturday Aug. Read more...



Scientists at UCLA create stronger nano-sized fiber

Researchers at UCLA have taken an old method from a common spider and spun it into a new idea for creating stronger materials. The idea was to copy the approach spiders use in spinning a web and to apply this to a method for creating stronger nano-sized fiber materials, according to Thomas Hahn, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Frank Ko, a materials engineering professor from Drexel University. Read more...