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Sunday, June 20, 2021

Berkeley News, Alumni Relations teams receive 4 Council for Advancement and Support of Education gold awards

Council for Advancement and Support of Education recognized Office of Communications and Public Affairs writers Gretchen Kell, Ivan Natividad and Anne Brice with gold awards for their work. The Alumni Relations team was also awarded for its efforts on the Light the Way campaign.

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, awarded four 2021 Circle of Excellence gold awards in June, with three given to Office of Communications and Public Affairs writers and one for a University Development and Alumni Relations team for its work on the Light the Way campaign’s public launch event.
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Editorials

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Building unnaming, heritage month cannot be all CA does to respect Indigenous communities

STATE AFFAIRS: Unnaming, Native American Heritage Month are just the start of heeding Indigenous calls for actionable change

Our outright vicious history with tribes cannot be mitigated with just a land acknowledgment, just a heritage month, just the unnaming of two lecture halls.
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Campus

Friday, November 20, 2020

UC Berkeley students, faculty react to unnaming of Barrows Hall, LeConte Hall

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

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

UC Berkeley unnames Barrows Hall, LeConte Hall

After years of student advocacy, campus officials announced today that Barrows Hall and LeConte Hall at UC Berkeley will be unnamed due to their namesakes’ racist histories.
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Letters to the Editor

Friday, July 24, 2020

Let’s rename Barrows Hall for Margy Wilkinson

We honor people who pioneered for social justice, organized for workers and fought against racism. Margy Wilkinson is a perfect fit for Barrows’ new name.
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Campus

Friday, July 17, 2020

UC Berkeley independent advisory board recommends demilitarizing UCPD, funding mental health resources

The Independent Advisory Board on Police Accountability and Community Safety released its report on the UCPD on June 30, recommending more than 25 changes that aim to create a safer campus environment and increase police accountability.
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Editorials

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Rename buildings to rectify racial injustice

CAMPUS AFFAIRS: Buildings venerating white supremacists should be renamed to honor leaders, alumni of color

If UC Berkeley understands and opposes white supremacy, campus leaders will not simply excise the names of oppressors.
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Campus

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

UC Berkeley reviews proposal by student groups to dename Barrows Hall

The UC Berkeley African American Student Development Office wrote a proposal July 9 to the Building Name Review Committee demanding that Barrows Hall be denamed.
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Campus

Monday, July 13, 2020

UC Berkeley to consider denaming Barrows Hall after years of community advocacy

UC Berkeley is considering a proposal to dename Barrows Hall, a building on campus that has long received criticism due to its namesake’s racist history.
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Activism 2020, Campus

Thursday, June 25, 2020

UC Berkeley’s student-led Black Lives Matter movement calls for ‘systemic change’ on campus

UC Berkeley’s Black student leaders and organizers have long advocated for increased recruitment, academic support and a more welcoming campus climate for Black students, but recent national unrest has reinvigorated the campus Black Lives Matter movement’s calls for change.
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Berkeley News, Alumni Relations teams receive 4 Council for Advancement and Support of Education gold awards

Building unnaming, heritage month cannot be all CA does to respect Indigenous communities

STATE AFFAIRS: Unnaming, Native American Heritage Month are just the start of heeding Indigenous calls for actionable change

UC Berkeley students, faculty react to unnaming of Barrows Hall, LeConte Hall

Let’s rename Barrows Hall for Margy Wilkinson

UC Berkeley independent advisory board recommends demilitarizing UCPD, funding mental health resources

Rename buildings to rectify racial injustice

CAMPUS AFFAIRS: Buildings venerating white supremacists should be renamed to honor leaders, alumni of color

UC Berkeley reviews proposal by student groups to dename Barrows Hall

UC Berkeley to consider denaming Barrows Hall after years of community advocacy

UC Berkeley’s student-led Black Lives Matter movement calls for ‘systemic change’ on campus