LeConte Hall

Members of the Berkeley community brought attention to a plaque memorializing brothers Joseph and John LeConte, known for their allegedly racist histories.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Let’s give a hearty “Go Bears” to UC Berkeley’s famous fictional alumni and faculty from some of the most iconic books, movies and television series.

UC Berkeley has some new inhabitants — yellow jackets have made nests in the vegetation on the eastern side of LeConte Hall on Oppenheimer Way. Campus environmental services roped off the region and put up "Do Not Enter" signs.