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May 28, 1:14 am

Metro will partially cover Westwood businesses’ revenue losses during construction

Los Angeles Metro will offer local businesses compensation for lost revenue during construction of the Purple Line Extension into Westwood. Metro authorized the expansion of the Business Interruption Fund, which provides funds to locally owned small businesses impacted by transit construction, to compensate businesses for revenue lost during construction of the third and final section of the Purple Line Extension. Read more...

Photo: The Business Interruption Fund is offered by Los Angeles Metro to small businesses that are adversely affected by construction of the Metro Purple Line Extension. (Daily Bruin file photo)

National, News

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May 28, 1:14 am

UCLA community offers views on possibilities, shortcomings of SAT ‘adversity score’

UCLA professors and students said they do not think a new score that aims to provide context on the challenges students face will be immediately effective in increasing disadvantaged students’ access to higher education. Read more...

Photo: The College Board, a nonprofit organization that administers the SAT, announced it will implement the Environmental Context Dashboard, which has been referred to as an “adversity score” by other media outlets. The ECD aims to provide admissions applications readers with information on students’ communities and high schools, including family income, crime rate and opportunities for Advanced Placement classes. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)

News, Science & Health

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May 28, 1:11 am

Study says aquaculture may be viable source of food, if done in the right areas

Ocean farming may provide a solution for global hunger and climate change, UCLA researchers found. A yearlong study published in the journal Marine Policy by researchers with the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA found ocean farming could alleviate a large portion of global hunger, promote biological diversity and minimize the impact of carbon emissions from land farming. Read more...

Photo: In a yearlong study, UCLA researchers found ocean farming could alleviate a large portion of global hunger, promote biological diversity and minimize the impact of carbon emissions from land farming. (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Illustrations director)

A Closer Look, News, Westwood

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May 28, 1:07 am

Bruins for Accessible Resources holds first fair, providing variety of goods

Jayesh Menon became motivated to fight homelessness after witnessing a homeless woman begging for food with her infant daughter in Westwood Village last summer. “Everyone around us (was) ignoring her,” he said. Read more...

Photo: Bruins for Accessible Resources, a student organization which coordinates the efforts of homeless outreach programs on and off campus, held its first resource fair Saturday. It offered clothes, umbrellas and hygiene products donated by Good Clothes Good People, the Westwood Presbyterian Church and other groups. (Courtesy of Mark Jones, Sr.)

Campus, News

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May 27, 9:30 am

Previously missing student reported to be located and safe

This post was updated June 2 at 3:52 p.m. A student was found after previously being reported missing. Marc Kalis, a fourth-year statistics student, was reported to be located and safe by his mother, Christina Kalis, on May 31 after being reported missing for almost three weeks. Read more...

Photo: Marc Kalis, 22, had last been seen three weeks ago moving out of Sproul Hall. His mother, Christina Kalis, said he was located and found safe May 31.(Courtesy of Christina Kalis)

Campus, News

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May 25, 5:26 pm

Centennial event honors Reginaldo Francisco del Valle, one of UCLA’s founders

Students and faculty celebrated one of UCLA’s Latino founders for the first time Friday. Attendees of “Remembering UCLA’s Latino Forefather,” gathered at Founder’s Rock to celebrate Reginaldo Francisco del Valle, a Latino state senator who introduced legislation in 1881 establishing the Branch State Normal School in Los Angeles, which later became UCLA. Read more...

Photo: (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)

News, Westwood

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May 24, 12:18 am

Westwood residents in disagreement over whether new soccer field should be built

Westwood residents debated adding a new soccer field to Westwood Park at a meeting Thursday. Hundreds of residents packed the Westwood Recreation Center to discuss a plan to replace a large portion of an open grass field with a fenced, public regulation-size synthetic soccer field named after Tommy Mark, a youth soccer player who died in 2018. Read more...

Photo: Hundreds of Westwood residents and community members filled the Westwood Recreation Center on Thursday to discuss the potential creation of a new soccer field in Westwood Park. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)


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