We rightfully want to learn from history’s mistakes, but navigating the uglier results of history can often be both difficult and muddled. However, interaction with history doesn’t have to be stagnant: in Hidden Histories, Daily Bruin staffer Alexandra Ferguson will reflect on various aspects of Los Angeles’ history. One of the largest lynchings in U.S. […]
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The Quad: How this car-obsessed city has its routes in public transit
We rightfully want to learn from history’s mistakes, but navigating the uglier results of history can often be both difficult and muddled. However, interaction with history doesn’t have to be stagnant: in Hidden Histories, Daily Bruin staffer Alexandra Ferguson will reflect on various aspects of Los Angeles’ history. Los Angeles is a city famous for […]
Hidden Histories: Racist, discriminatory past of how Dodger Stadium came to be
We rightfully want to learn from history’s mistakes, but navigating the uglier results of history can often be both difficult and muddled. However, interaction with history doesn’t have to be stagnant: in Hidden Histories, Daily Bruin staffer Alexandra Ferguson will reflect on various aspects of Los Angeles’ history. In the hills north of downtown Los […]
Hidden Histories: Remembering historical mistreatment of Japanese can illuminate current injustice
We rightfully want to learn from history’s mistakes, but navigating the uglier results of history can often be both difficult and muddled. However, interaction with history doesn’t have to be stagnant: in Hidden Histories, Daily Bruin staffer Alexandra Ferguson will reflect on various aspects of Los Angeles’ history. More than 2,500 Japanese and Japanese-Americans lived […]
The Quad: A look into how UCLA’s admit rates have changed in light of increasing applicants
UCLA’s acceptance rate has dropped 4.4 percent over the past five years. UCLA had yet another record-breaking number of applicants in fall 2018. Though new admits’ excitement has surely turned into midterm stress by now, the admissions process for fall 2018 proved to be one of the most competitive cycles in the University of California’s […]