Simplethings, a sandwich and pie shop in Westwood Village, began accepting payments from BruinCards earlier last week. The store is one of four Westwood restaurants to implement the change within the last month. BruinCard users can deposit money into EasyPay, the prepaid debit feature on the card, to use at the different Westwood locations, including […]
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Forum addresses public safety concerns with marijuana legalization
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that the public needs to ask lots of questions before anyone drafts language for a marijuana legalization ballot measure, but he is almost certain it will be on the ballot in 2016. The discussion was part of an on-campus forum that addressed public safety and enforcement concerns with […]
Westwood Village Improvement Association approves fee increase
The Westwood Village Improvement Association’s board voted 8-1-2 Wednesday to increase the fees businesses pay to support the association by a few hundred dollars per landowner. The association, also known as the Westwood Business Improvement District, is a nonprofit organization created to provide functions for Westwood Village that the City of Los Angeles does not […]
Eat Sweets Pastry to leave Westwood, search for new location
Eat Sweets Pastry, a boutique pastry shop that specializes in shortbread and decorated cookies, will leave Westwood when its lease ends. Its last business day will be on Saturday. Eat Sweets Pastry will operate from its commercial kitchen in Lincoln Heights, about 14 miles east of UCLA, while Megan Driscoll, the bakery’s owner and pastry […]
FDA orders UCLA researchers to cease experimental brain scan promotion
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently instructed a pair of UCLA researchers to stop promoting an experimental brain scan that uses an unapproved drug to detect long-term neurological damage. The website of the researchers’ company, TauMark, suggested brain scans could detect concussions, dementia and other neurological conditions in patients who were injected with a […]
USAC issues survey to better address student concerns, improve outreach
An undergraduate student government office released a survey Wednesday asking students to evaluate how well each office has addressed student needs. Councilmembers intend to use the survey to better understand concerns and implement solutions throughout various offices, said Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative 1 Manjot Singh. Singh said his office organized the survey for […]
Lecturer’s educational enthusiasm stems from upbringing in war zone
Nushin Arbabzadah didn’t know she was looking at dead bodies the first time she saw them. She and her 7-year-old classmates lined up in front of the classroom and stared as men carried teenage girls on stretchers to the hospital next door. She thought the girls were sleeping, until one of her classmates started to […]