Author Archives: Xandi Staines

Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski told UCLA women Sunday that they need to break boundaries. “You have the skills and the tools … if you feel passionate about something, explore and knock on those doors,” Miscikowski said in her keynote speech at the 9th annual Women’s Leadership Conference, put on all day Sunday by the Bruin Belles […]

A new branch of the Los Angeles Public Library opened in Westwood on May 7, offering the area’s readers, including UCLA students, a new source for their favorite John Grisham, Dan Brown or J.K. Rowling novels. The new Westwood library, located on Glendon Avenue about a block south of Wilshire Avenue, provides a much greater […]

William Leslie Britt, a former UCLA student, died on April 28 in a car accident on Interstate 5. He was 22. Britt had been a student at UCLA up until fall 2004, when he transferred to University of the Pacific. He was a member of the fraternity Zeta Beta Tau. Services for Britt were held […]

A new survey evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the Greek system is being introduced at UCLA this quarter. The survey, which was created by Educational Benchmarking, Inc., is being administered by the Center for Student Programming as a way to investigate whether the Greek system is meeting its members’ needs. “Basically it’s a way […]

UCLA Student Media’s bruinwalk.com launched a new “groups” feature for its social networking tool this quarter that will allow students to not only form online networking groups, but to create entire web pages and publish content without any technical programming experience. Justin Hartung, a recently graduated business economics student and the director of bruinwalk.com, said […]

North Village vehicles were showered with parking tickets for illegally blocking sidewalks around this time last year, but residents say these days violators have been given more leeway. Last February and March, authorities cracked down on cars blocking the sidewalks after a number of complaints. In Westwood, an area well-known for its parking problems, residents […]

The java smell in Westwood is about to get even stronger, as a new cafe and coffee shop opening on Monday will have to compete with the numerous other coffee shops already operating in the area. The Novel Cafe will be located at 1101 Gayley Ave., just one block down from a Coffee Bean and […]