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Berkeley and the Bay Area in the 20th century were a launching point for nationwide environmental movements.

If you’re any true Cal student, you probably have your favorite study spots for grinding it out. But beyond comfort and familiarity, have you ever factored the stars into your study session decision?

Prying eyes will find before them the stories of the planet and its people, collected from across space and time. Campus’s 10 collections and 22 libraries hold some of the rarest pieces in their fields.

Over the past decades, movements starting from the Free Speech movement in the mid-1960s to recent protests like the United Automobile Workers, or UAW, strike have shown trends of significant differences and similarities that have translated over time.

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.