To the editor: As a UCLA alumna, I want to publicly thank Meyer and Renee Luskin for their beneficiant donations to UCLA, together with the latest donation to the historical past division. I graduated UCLA with a bachelor of arts in historical past, and I share Meyer’s perspective concerning the significance of learning historical past to assist us navigate the current and future.
I’m notably to listen to in regards to the Luskins, since my father and Meyer met one another as younger teenagers in Boyle Heights and have become lifelong buddies till my father’s passing. The Luskins have put their wealth to good use and I applaud them.
Olivia Goodkin, Los Angeles
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To the editor: As an undergraduate historical past main and member of Phi Beta Kappa, I’m ecstatic in regards to the new reward to UCLA that may make sure the promotion of additional research within the self-discipline.
Historical past teaches undergraduates to evaluation and discern giant quantities of data, to develop crucial arguments about historic occasions and to change into resourceful in trying to find the reality on a problem. In my historical past programs at Colgate College, we debated points corresponding to using atomic weapons in 1945, the unjust exploitation of slaves within the U.S. and British Empire, and the event of democratic establishments — all related matters in discussions that happen in the present day.
Those that selected to main in historical past acquire an incredible set of abilities that they will use in enterprise, regulation, greater schooling, authorities and lots of different skilled fields. As such, it’s great to see leaders like Mr. and Mrs. Luskin reinforcing the worth of such alternatives for in the present day’s college students as they think about their futures.
Christian Teeter, Los Angeles
