Bancroft Library

Hold onto your diamond swords and pickaxes because there is still more to be expected from the innovative campus student organization that brought us Minecraft Berkeley in 2021.

From worrisome to wholesome, here are UC Berkeley’s stories and legends that you might have missed on your campus tour.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., discussed threats to American democracy and the role of women’s leadership at former senator Barbara Boxer’s annual campus lecture Monday. 

Members of the Berkeley community gathered in remembrance of the forced detainment of Americans of Japanese descent in internment camps during WWII.

As most students have returned to in-person learning, some are demanding increased campus services, including extended library hours.

Almost all UC Berkeley libraries reopened to students on Wednesday, as fall classes began.

UC Berkeley announced that students and staff will be able to return to three campus libraries with limited services beginning July 12.

Former campus archivist William Benemann was going through the Social Protest Collection in the Bancroft Library when he came across a mimeographed form from 1970 written by campus’s Gay Students Union. The form asked former California governor Ronald Reagan to attend the first openly-gay dance on campus after he told a KQED reporter that he hadn’t been invited.

Campus officials announced Wednesday that Barrows Hall and LeConte Hall will be unnamed due to the racist history behind their namesakes.

UC Berkeley’s libraries, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union and Eshleman Hall are gradually implementing services and reopening physical spaces to support students.