When professor Cruz Rangel started teaching at San Diego City College, Richard Nixon was president and many of his students did not have the right to vote, because the 26th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution hadn’t lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 yet.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s name will echo eternal in literature’s history as a premier writer in the world. His transcendence to death, felt globally, ended April 17, aged 87, in his adopted...