Author Archives: Josh Kahn

UCLA Housing officials are currently looking into gender-neutral housing options that would allow students to choose a roommate regardless of sex. Having a gender-neutral housing facility would allow for a more accepting environment and benefit not just lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, but all students who want to live with whomever they feel most […]

A phishing attempt to get University Credit Union account and personal identification numbers from students and employees yesterday was quickly halted Monday by the UCU’s Internet security services. In the fraudulent e-mail, recipients were requested to click on a link that would then take them to the credit union’s Web site, prompting them to enter […]

Just west of the 405 Freeway, Wilshire Boulevard snakes its way through the largest veterans site in the nation ““ the West Los Angeles Veteran Affairs complex. Encompassing nearly 400 acres, it is the focus of a looming showdown between local and state officials, veterans’ groups, and the federal government. Negotiations among these parties on […]

An anti-affirmative action group backed by former University of California Regent Ward Connerly filed two lawsuits against the Los Angeles Unified School District last week claiming that its policies violated Proposition 209, the 1996 statewide initiative that banned preferential treatment by race in California public institutions. The American Civil Rights Foundation’s lawsuits targeted the school […]

With 25 countries already in the union and more expected to join, the European Union has the potential to be the world’s next superpower. Many people in the United States may not know what the European Union is or what its goals are, but they better start learning quickly, said former U.S. ambassador to the […]

Soon, commuters seeking to avoid the Westside’s car-clogged streets will have a mass transit system at their disposal. Just not where many say it is needed most. Slowed down by political opposition and high costs, the proposal to extend the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Red Line subway down Wilshire Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard is not […]

No hot water or gas and a lot of dust are among some of the problems graduate students living in Weyburn Terrace have experienced since the opening of the apartments last fall. Residents were allowed to move into Weyburn Terrace, a collection of seven housing buildings for graduate students, as construction continued on the apartments. […]