Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
By Daily Bruin Staff
Feb. 23, 1998 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 24, 1998
Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
THUMBS:
Hot food ban hurts market
Thumbs down to the Westwood Village Community Alliance for
banning all prepared hot food and craft vendors from the Westwood
Farmers¹ Market. The 60-day moratorium was placed on the
vendors at the beginning of the year in order to return the market
to its original concept, which was to include farmers and produce
only.
Competition is said to be the reason for the removal.
Chasin¹ Chicken was one of the merchants who was said to be
unhappy with the competition. Although the council denies that
competition is the reason at all, the public thinks otherwise. A
survey demonstrated that the public has reacted negatively to the
removal. We say let the public decide, not an ³alliance²
made up of infamous, self-serving Westwood residents. Say, are
these the same residents that police businesses like Duet and
praise the Westwood Specific plan? We say let the majority
(student) opinion prevail, and the minority (anti-student) opinion
disappear.
Pledging
to help kids
Thumbs up to UC Berkeley¹s educational outreach program,
the Berkeley Pledge. The program has been successful in raising the
mathematical scores of students in the Bay Area. The program
targets disadvantaged students and offers academic enrichment to
facilitate future college educations.
Students in grades K-12 in more than 40 schools have shown
improvement on standardized tests and exhibited more
self-confidence. It¹s great to see a program actually making
sizeable, positive changes in the lives of students who are
hopefully college-bound, and more efforts should be made. UCLA
should adopt a similar Pledge program and give the secrets of
success to our children in Los Angeles. The more time and energy we
put into the children, the brighter our future will be.
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