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The Berkeley Student Cooperative ( BSC) (formerly known as University Students' Cooperative Association or the USCA) is a student housing cooperative serving primarily UC Berkeley students, but open to any full-time post-secondary student. The BSC houses and/or feeds over 1,300 students in 17 houses and three apartment buildings.
In the 1988 film Die Hard (1988), Joseph Yashinobo Takagi (James Shigeta), President of Nakatomi Trading, is said to be a scholarship student at UC Berkeley, graduating in 1955. In the film Legally Blonde (2001), Harvard law student Enid Wexler earns a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in women's studies, "emphasis in the history of combat".
The University of California, Berkeley ( UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [10] [11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and was the founding campus of the University of California ...
Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 – co-founder of software company Berkeley Systems (acquired by Sierra Online for $13 million [2] ), co-founder of political activist group MoveOn.org. Richard C. Blum, B.S. 1958, M.B.A. 1959 – founder of private equity firm Blum Capital and the American Himalayan Foundation, Regent of the University of California.
Barrington Hall (Berkeley, California) Coordinates: 37°51′52.85″N 122°15′44.13″W. The front of Barrington Hall in fall 1989. Barrington Hall was a student housing cooperative in the University Students' Cooperative Association (USCA) (now known as the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC)) system in Berkeley, California, from 1935 to ...
Bruce Berger. John Berger (author) Ciel Bergman. (previous page) ( next page ) Categories: University of California alumni. University of California, Berkeley people. Alumni by university or college in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The BSC houses approximately 1250 students in 20 properties (17 of which it owns and three of which it leases from UC Berkeley), while other members have boarding-only (i.e. meal plan) contracts. The BSC is legally independent of the university, with their only legal relationship being the aforementioned ground leases.
Hans Hollein, M. Arch. 1960, architect, awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1985. Julia Morgan, B.S. 1894, architect, designed the Hearst Castle for newspaper businessman William Randolph Hearst. Eric Owen Moss, M. Arch. 1968, architect, famous for his contributions in theory and practice in contemporary architecture.