history

There is an intimate, human quality to handwritten letters. They can create a material connection with others from miles away that can forever be held and looked back on. These letters also in time can serve as written records of history, tangible reminders of the past. In our movement towards digital technology, we risk the loss of one of the most treasured forms of human communication.

Despite rising conversations about systemic racism and societal inequities, we have rarely reevaluated the biases we hold ⁠toward each other for the way we speak.

The unofficial holiday known as April Fools’ Day has come a long way. So, what exactly is April Fools?

Head coach Kirk Everist and Nikolaos Papanikolaou earn respective titles three years in a row. Everist becomes the first person to ever be named MPSF Coach of the year three times consecutively, while Papanikolaou is the second player to win MPSF Player of the year for the third year in a row.

I refuse to let such a turbulent history vanish, and I know there are millions of Filipinos who feel the same.

One day after arriving in the West, my mom and her sister sat crying in the aisle of a grocery store. Their father had given them the choice to select a piece of candy from the confection aisle. They saw a life they missed out on for over a decade — a life filled with choice, contained in those colorful bits of sweetness. 

Somehow I've wrestled free from the 21st century and stepped into another world. What hits me at once is that this choreographed reunion with the past is aesthetically driven; I find myself in a kind of time warp marked by colonial gazebos, iPhones, Charleston dance-offs and a picnic of props where I never lose the sense that I’m in a decade-limbo, never really fully in one time or another.

From a small Russian village to the bustling streets of New York, my great-grandmother had introduced the next generation into the world. This was a world safe from the vile antisemitism of 1900s Europe and a place where immigrants could create a life worth living. 

The prospect of love and care materialized the shared vision of People’s Park.

Now is the time to move from the park being a volatile point of controversy to developing a feasible plan of action based on cooperation between the University of California and the people of the city that hosts its flagship campus.