Free Speech Movement

Maria Boone Cranor, co-founder of Black Diamond Equipment, UC Berkeley alumna and former instructor in the physics department at The University of Utah died from cancer at age 76 in her Salt Lake City home on Jan. 15, according to Berkeleyside. 

Music and culture magazine Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner spoke in discussion with music journalist and former campus faculty member Greil Marcus on Tuesday night as part of the Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series.

The admission tour guide told my mostly Latino classmates about the birth of the Free Speech Movement on “this very campus” and detailed the historical significance of many sights during the tour. They explained how UC Berkeley was a center for activism and advocacy of marginalized voices.

John Myers, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, died Oct. 14 in Oakland, California at the age of 89.

Hallmarks of UC Berkeley, education and activism have coexisted on campus since the Free Speech Movement.

The prospect of love and care materialized the shared vision of People’s Park.

The ASUC External Affairs Vice President condemned actions taken by the Turkish government against the student body of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.

California’s State Historical Resources Commission voted to recommend People’s Park be listed on the National Register of Historical Places on Friday.

Out of the 40 universities in the United States that were included in the ranking, campus only fell behind Stanford University with a score of 73.4.  

The Coalition for a Truly Public UC gathered in downtown Oakland at 8 a.m. Wednesday to protest the UC Board of Regents, including their recent vote on campus’s plans to redevelop People’s Park and 1921 Walnut St.