Students and community members will help the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority in Westwood determine the number of homeless individuals in the area Wednesday, as part of the organization’s survey of L.A. County’s homeless population and demographics.
Category Archives: Westwood
Phi Kappa Psi continues to rebuild after chapter’s re-establishment
Almost two years after jackhammers tore down the remains of the Phi Kappa Psi house on fraternity row, a newly built $7.5 million fraternity house stands in its place, ready to house a chapter with a fresh focus on service. Phi Kappa Psi re-established its chapter at UCLA in September with a founding class of […]
CoCo Fresh Tea and Juice boba shop causes stir in Westwood
CoCo Fresh Tea and Juice, a boba shop brand with locations across Southern California, held its Westwood soft opening Wednesday, creating lines of thirsty customers out the door. “It was really crowded. To be honest, we didn’t expect that many people,” said the shop’s owner, Ezikyel Yu. “We had to close 30 minutes before we […]
Westwood Community Council recap – Jan. 20
The Westwood Community Council meets several times a year to discuss issues relevant to the Westwood Village business and residential community. A spokesman for Senator Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) said Lieu is negotiating with Robert McDonald, secretary for Veteran Affairs, about issues regarding the VA West Los Angeles Medical Center campus. Chris Ragsdale, the LAPD senior […]
Westwood Neighborhood Council approves design for new fraternity house
The Westwood Neighborhood Council approved a possible design Wednesday for a new fraternity house on Gayley Avenue, the latest step in the multiple-year project to develop the empty lot. The house will be built at the site of the old Zeta Psi fraternity house, 611 Gayley Ave., which has been uninhabited since 2005. In the […]
UCLA chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity rescinds charter
The UCLA chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha stopped operating as an official campus fraternity Wednesday because of financial problems. The fraternity internally decided to pull its charter because it could not pay off its debts of between $10,000 and $25,000 to the national Pi Kappa Alpha organization, said Matthew Li, president of the chapter and […]
North Village heavily ticketed for parking during street sweeping hours
Kelton Avenue is empty and quiet at 8 a.m. on a Friday morning. But in Westwood, this is one of the busiest times for city parking enforcement. Over the course of half an hour, a parking official patrols the street twice, and 15 cars parked along the two-block stretch of road are flagged with white […]