Boalt 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.

The UC Berkeley Building Name Review Committee will consider denaming proposals for Kroeber and LeConte halls, according to a campuswide email Monday.

As a campus that prides itself on diversity, UC Berkeley should continue acting on its commitment to fostering an environment that uplifts students of color

The Building Name Review Committee spent almost three years circulating surveys, inviting public comment and reading reports from an internal Berkeley Law committee.

As of early Thursday morning, the campus has removed Boalt Hall’s name and the building’s name pin lettering.

In the name of festivities we've decided to name a Kardashian-Jenner patron for each of the UC Berkeley libraries to give you something to really celebrate.

After a process that lasted more than a year, I have decided that the law school should stop using the Boalt name. Boalt wrote a racist essay supporting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned immigration of Chinese laborers to the U.S. for more than 60 years.

Many students shared the sentiment that the move was a positive change if it induced a more inclusive environment.

At a time when the removal of controversial monuments from public places has made national headlines, UC Berkeley finds itself revisiting concerns surrounding the names of several contentious buildings on campus.