american history

With its gifted cast and a playwright with an expansive vision, “Train Stories” is a play of extensive scope and simple scale. It challenges ideas on what it means to do the right thing, and how the everyday is constantly informed by the past.

As of today, there is no memorial on campus to honor the students and locals who gave their lives in the Vietnam War, despite there being a similar monument for every prior major 20th-century American war.

For those of you who aren’t inveterate museum-goers, I urge you to pay a visit to the OMCA. I walked away with a greater understanding of California, and specifically Bay Area heritage.