3 Historical Facts About UC San Diego Nobody Knows

Stevon Marshall
The Writer’s Cove
2 min readFeb 4, 2020

It’s a sign of the times. Currently, there is a myriad of methods of communication that our predecessors didn’t get the chance to live, yet foreseen it’s potential. That course of action had yet to reach heights of such great potential it currently possesses. Concerns of social power, mass media productions, and raising and recording the boundaries being pushed. Anyone can be Time for the facts to be placed at the table, all is needed is for you to take a seat.

1) Communication Department

Infiltration into the UC California system in 1982 with UCSD as its first, yet saw fruition in 1970 by the efforts of student and faculty activism longing for concerns of the social world to be tended to.

2) Onsight Sightings

Marshall College’s Sojourner Truth statue and Peterson Hall’s Mural need not be constrained to simple aesthetic pleasure, but intellectual stimulation. Racial discrepancies birthed the urge of verge for discourse to be shifted.

3) Archival Progression

History resides in the embodiment of what is now, so at the heart of UCSD’s campus is where all its history can be lived yet again, Geisel Library. Unbeknownst to the majority, Geisel’s digital collection and archiving is something that encompasses history of university to California, and it’s all at the students’ disposal.

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