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TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

Transportation officials have revamped the routes of campus shuttle buses that carry an average of 5,000 passengers daily. Among the changes: Campus Express now stops at the newly opened Weyburn Terrace; the Wilshire Center Express, running between the center and Lot 2, replaces the Ackerman Express; and shuttles no longer stop at the turnaround near Ackerman Union. Since the changes took effect June 28, two modifications have been made in response to rider concerns, Director Renee A. Fortier said. A Murphy Hall stop was restored to the Campus Express route, and Campus Express will stop at the Gonda research center starting Sept. 20, about a year earlier than originally planned. Fortier said the original changes were based on a desire to serve Weyburn Terrace and extensive boarding and destination surveys that found “the preponderance of riders are better served by ... service between Wilshire Center and north campus.” For a map, see www.transportation.ucla.edu.

HOT SUMMER NIGHTS

Temperatures weren’t the only numbers heating up this summer. So was attendance at a free concert series at the Hammer Museum featuring DJs and musicians from Tijuana and Mexico City. Among the hot acts at the Hammer was Los Angeles-based Los Super Elegantes, which packed the courtyard with more than 1,100 attendees. Throughout the summer, the popular four-part “Mixed in Mexico” series attracted enthusiastic, dance-crazed crowds from all over the Los Angeles region.

LOST ... AND REPLACED

It took 63 years, but Nao Takasugi, 82, will finally get a UCLA letterman’s sweater to replace the one he lost when he was forced to leave his studies at UCLA in 1941. He had to move with his family into an internment camp for Japanese Americans. Takasugi, who later became mayor of Oxnard and a California assemblyman, was honored August 3. Athletics director Dan Guerrero presented the former tennis team member with Bruin sports gear. As for one of his most prized possessions, the missing sweater, Government and Community Relations has ordered a replica letterman’s sweater for him. “I’m really happy so many of you turned out to honor me in this way,” said Takasugi.