Author Archives: Natalie Branach

After three years of extensive discussion, a tentative compromise was reached between Casden Properties and many Westwood businesses ““ resulting in the partial closing of Glendon Avenue during the developers’ constriction. At a Planning and Land Use Management hearing held July 21, City Councilmember Jack Weiss announced Glendon would remain open during developer Alan Casden’s […]

California’s state budget is more than 20 days overdue, yet financial analysts and University of California officials are little more than perturbed about the delay. Negotiations over the state budget between the Legislature’s Democratic majority and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have stalled, and several main issues remain on the bargaining table. Both the governor and […]

For those suffering from leukemia, good news regarding the possibility of a new treatment option has recently surfaced from the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center. Scientists at the cancer center recently published research regarding an experimental therapy which could help patients suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia ““ a slow progressing cancer that makes the body produce […]

Conservationists from the savannas of Africa and the rainforests of Brazil struggled with a technological glitch in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom during a conservation exhibition Saturday, proving they’re more comfortable with wildcats than with computer projectors. After fiddling with the equipment, presenters hailing from various cat conservation societies casually talked about the necessity of predator […]

A former employee of UCLA’s Willed Body Program was found dead in his North Hollywood apartment on July 9. Keith Lewis was implicated in the Willed Body Program scandal that rocked UCLA in March and consequently, placed on leave at that time. According to a university police search warrant, Lewis had confessed to helping Ernest […]

The man behind most of UCLA’s fiscal decisions, Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen, will soon be working with politicians, policy experts and the general public in an attempt to make the state’s financial structure more transparent and effective. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appointed the longtime Bruin a commissioner to the California Performance Review. The California Performance […]

Marlon Brando was believed by many to be a man in a class of his own who sparked passion and emotion into the hearts of many of those who sat in darkened theaters to watch his work. At the age of 80, Brando died on July 1 at the UCLA Medical Center from lung failure, […]