charter day

The altered banners displayed messages including, “Campus buildings are named after colonizer D.P. Barrows and slaveholder J. LeConte” and “UC Berkeley has only returned 313 of 10,000 Native American remains held by the campus.”

A long procession of campus students carrying class banners — the oldest dating back to 1873 — filled Haas Pavilion on Friday, accompanied by orchestral music from the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble, as alumni, staff and community members followed suit.

Today is UC Berkeley’s 150th birthday, and The Daily Californian’s Charter Day issue looks to offer a more complete story of what this campus is: the good, the bad and the ugly.

The UC was chartered on March 23, 1868 when California governor Henry Haight signed the Organic Act, which created California’s first land-grant university. The road to Charter Day was paved years before this, however, with a little help from former president Abraham Lincoln.

There’s no way we could possibly get every contribution to society the school made into one succinct list, but we’ve compiled some of the highlights!

With midterm season finally calming down, we at the Clog think it’s time for us all to take a break and celebrate UC Berkeley in all its 150-year-old glory.

In my time as chancellor, I’ve been thinking a lot about the qualities that define our particular character and history. Intellectual courage is one of the most important

The Big C at the peak of Charter Hill is once again sporting its traditional King Alfred yellow, after Chancellor Nicholas Dirks hiked to the top of the hill Friday morning to fulfill an undertaking he promised to do last fall as part of a UC fundraising campaign.