Author Archives: Tristan Reed

Westwood’s colorful collection of indigents tends to shape most students’ view of Los Angeles’ homeless population. It’s easy to think, for instance, that the panhandler on Broxton Avenue is representative of the 80,000-plus people who spend any given night in the streets, parks and shelters of our city. The real picture, however, is strikingly different. […]

It seems that after last week’s Tasering in Powell Library, everyone has become an expert on police conduct. Each student is ready to opine on whether or not a Taser actually hurts that badly, or on whether Mostafa Tabatabainejad was actively resisting the officers. But in the midst of the debate, we’re missing the point. […]

Today we’re faced with weighty choices. We have to pick the leaders of our state and our representatives in Congress. Thanks to the slew of California ballot initiatives, we also have the opportunity to vote on a few laws and a few bond measures that could cost us down the line. With everything at stake, […]

Governor: Phil Angelides. Sure, Phil Angelides’ gigantic ears and elfin grin don’t quite stack up to the chiseled chin of the Gubernator. But he has a vision. While Schwarzenegger has spent the last months shape-shifting from a regressive Republican into a more palatable moderate, Angelides has been fighting for progressive values since the Nixon administration. […]

“No man is an island,” you may have read in high school. “Unless,” poet John Donne should have written, “he lives in Westwood.” Castaway stories aren’t uncommon. A forlorn, drunk partygoer bemoans a lack of bar choices; Maloney’s, Brew Co. and Acapulco just don’t offer the vast array of possibilities ambitious barflies need to sustain […]