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Located in Berkeley's Southside neighborhood, the Lothlorien houses were built on land originally owned by the private College of California and named Berkeley in honor of Anglo-Irish Age of Enlightenment philosopher George Berkeley. In 1868 it became part of the newly formed and publicly funded University of California (UC Berkeley).
Rochdale Village is student housing cooperative apartment complex in Berkeley, California. The property is owned by UC Berkeley and leased by the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC). It was built during the late 1960s and early 1970s, with money loaned by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the BSC (then known as the University ...
The Berkeley Student Food Collective (BSFC) is a collectively-operated nonprofit grocery market founded by students of the University of California, Berkeley. The 650-square-foot storefront is located across the street from the university, on Bancroft Way.
Underneath UC Berkeley's oldest buildings is a system of steam tunnels which carry steam for heat and power. [27] During the 1960s, Berkeley students chained the doorknobs of the Chancellor's office in protest over the Vietnam War. The Chancellor, having no other way in or out of the building, used the steam tunnels to escape.
The college had the fifth highest transfer rate to UC Berkeley in California in academic year 2004-05 and remains in the top five as of 2011. Berkeley City College structures its transfer courses into guaranteed afternoon, evening and Saturday schedules so that students can complete University of California and California State University ...
Charles Anderson, BS Chemistry 1938 [86] – CEO and President (1958–1980) of Stanford Research International (known now as SRI International) [87]; Mitchell Baker, B.A. 1979, J.D. 1987 – current Chairperson and former CEO of the web browser company Mozilla Corporation, current Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award in 2008; [88 ...
The University of California, including UC Berkeley, pictured, are joining a national initiative to offer free online courses to students at low-income high schools across the country beginning ...
The events at Berkeley can be generally defined by three single yet interrelated social topics: the Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and the Vietnam war protests in Berkeley, California. [1] The Berkeley protests were not the first demonstrations to be held in and around the University of California Campus. Since before World ...