The UCLA School of Law recently received a $4 million donation to launch a new food law and policy program, one of the first of its kind to focus on how food regulations affect consumers.

Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti plans to focus on improving the city’s economy by creating new jobs, he said in a victory speech on Wednesday.

Garcetti held a lead of 8 percentage points over City Controller Wendy Greuel, with about 54 percent of the vote.

The fate of the next mayoral election was up in the air Tuesday night, as vote counts trickled in from the mayoral election runoff vote and made the results too close to call by press time.

The Westwood Business Improvement District, a non-profit organization created to carry out basic maintenance and safety functions in Westwood, is looking to stay intact for another two years as its charter heads into the renewal process.

The Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center is partnering with Associated Students UCLA to open a new optometry center in Ackerman Union next year as part of an effort to expand and improve optometry services for students and faculty.

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Los Angeles mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti were noticeably more heated in Monday night’s debate in Westwood than when they faced off in Royce Hall for the primary back in January.

Wearing racer bibs with the words “UCLA united to remember” and a silhouette of the Boston skyline, about 30 people gathered in Bruin Plaza on Tuesday afternoon to honor the victims of last week’s Boston Marathon explosions.

The UCLA Communications Board appointed Jillian Beck, a current assistant news editor for the Daily Bruin, as the editor in chief for the Daily Bruin for the 2013-2014 academic year on Tuesday night.

The sandwich and hot dog scene in Westwood Village is expected to expand in the coming months with the relocation and addition of several restaurants.
Among the new restaurants is Ike’s Place, a San Francisco-based sandwich shop that is expanding from the Bay Area and moving into where Subway is currently located on 1151 Westwood Blvd.