News Briefs

New crosswalk near dorms

Transportation Services installed a new crosswalk on De Neve
Drive yesterday morning in order to increase pedestrian safety.

The crosswalk, which is located by the corner of the Office of
Residential Life, was finally installed after the On Campus Housing
Council, a branch of the Policy Review Board, proposed the idea
spring quarter of last year.

“Many pedestrians from Rieber and Sproul Halls walk
diagonally toward the De Neve side, creating an unsafe
situation,” said Steve Rand, the manager of Transportation
Services.

Rand, after working with traffic engineers to think of the
safest paths, also said determining the placement of the crosswalk
caused the delay.

Although both Rand and Adam Harmetz, chair of the On Campus
Housing Council both said that there hasn’t been any
accidents to the best of their knowledge, Harmetz still said that
the area is “identified as a dangerous intersection by
students.”

“(Without the crosswalk), there’s legally nowhere to
cross,” said Harmetz.

Business leaders speak at UCLA

The Anderson School at UCLA will hold the fifth annual Galef
Symposium on corporate governance and equity offerings Wednesday.
The day-long event will feature more than 20 leaders from the world
of corporate governance.

The recent Enron bankruptcy has raised significant discussion on
the impact of corporate governance on a business’ social,
economic and political success. The Galef Symposium’s panel
of experts will address this among other topics, such as how to
revitalize capital markets.

The conference will feature keynote speakers John T. Wall,
president of Nasdaq International, and Mark Heesen, president of
the National Venture Capital Association.

Dorms to serve fair-trade coffee

Recently, UCLA Dining Services, working with the UCLA
Environmental Coalition, switched the dining hall drip coffee to a
Fair Trade, organic blend, making them one of the very few campuses
in the nation to offer fair trade in campus coffeehouses, dining
halls and medical center.

Connie Foster, UCLA director of dining services calls this move
“the result of an all-around partnership with students and
vendors, working for excellence in the dining services.”

Fair Trade Coffee, certified by Transfair USA, guarantees coffee
farmers a living wage, access to low-interest loans and enables
them grow their coffee in an environmentally-sustainable way.

Reports from staff and wire services.