By Nadia Ahmad |Staff Writer| “The Imitation Game,” is nominated for eight Academy Awards. This is a very compelling film and well worth your money. The film is based on the true story of Alan Turing, a mathematician who was hired to crack an unbreakable enigma code Hitler and the Germans used during World War II. This may not sound like an appealing story to those who aren’t computer science or engineering majors, but trust me when I say the film has a variety of aspects that makes it enjoyable to all audiences, especially college students. “The Imitation Game” contains enough battle scenes for action lovers with a few plot twists thrown in to keep the audience on the … [Read more...] about Imitation Game don’t play
World War II
CSUSB professor explores the heroism of Hirabayashi during WWII
By Melissa Benton |Staff Writer| Cherstin Lyon, CSUSB assistant history professor, published a historical book about the Japanese American draft resistors during World War II. “Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory” follows the story of 41 Nisei who were imprisoned after refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military during World War II. Lyon tells how the struggles of these Japanese Americans in resisting the draft and the legal battles that followed which could be compared to civil rights hero, Gordon Hirabayashi. Lyon is giving a lecture on Gordon Hirabayashi on Feb. 22 in John M. Pfau Library from 12-1 p.m. in … [Read more...] about CSUSB professor explores the heroism of Hirabayashi during WWII