In the type of faculty that we have and the things that we focus on regularly in the Student Department which is where my heart and mind is as well. It has been a wonderful time here though. Just seeing the change in being part of it. So you came the year before the la riots. I did. It was such shock from texas where i was, having been born and raised in virginia and coming here and being part of that. Seeing it firsthand. Heavy rain about that . Yes i have. I was so impacted by it that i decided to write a book. I wrote a book that was published in the Oxford University press in 2013. And lewis tosha harlings . A 16yearold girl who walked into a liquor market, a Grocery Store in march 1991. And close to home in southcentral los angeles and she picked up a bottle of orange juice across the dollars 79. She put in her backpack and went to the counter with the two dollars in her hand. The shopkeeper thought she was trying to steal the jews. A fight began and she knocked the woman down she