Cal State Fullerton’s Mildred García: Elevator rides with students bring music to my ears

It happens every morning on the elevator at California State University, Fullerton: Students file in around me — some bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, others in desperate need of the Starbucks they clutch to their hearts like their first-born — but it’s not their contrasting states of alertness that strike me; it’s the many disparate languages they’re speaking.
To me, the sound of three or four languages over the course of a 10-floor elevator ride is America personifie