Mario Savio

The Free Speech Movement Cafe, or FSM Cafe, officially opened on Feb 3. 2000. The Cafe commemorates the Free Speech Movement, which originated on campus in 1964, and the legacy of Mario Savio. 

Over the past decades, movements starting from the Free Speech movement in the mid-1960s to recent protests like the United Automobile Workers, or UAW, strike have shown trends of significant differences and similarities that have translated over time.

At the center of the Free Speech Movement was Mario Savio, a campus student who led the student protests and movement that culminated with campus students winning the right to political free speech.

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

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 Free Speech Movement Cafe, a tribute to the movement that helped shape UC Berkeley, finally reopened July 19 after an extended closure during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alice Waters, owner and founder of Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, first fell in love with French cuisine while skipping classes at the Sorbonne in Paris.

We scoured more than 100 years of digital archives to highlight notable events from campus and Daily Cal history. From the very first game at Memorial Stadium to the Milo Yiannopoulos protests, we compiled headlines from nearly every decade since the Daily Cal was founded in 1871. So sit back, relax and take a scroll through history.

"Hey, it’s a compliment.” That’s what men say when we keep our heads down and walk faster. That’s their response to no response at all.

There is a long history of female leadership in business and entrepreneurship in the city of Berkeley, and many women today continue to work to increase diversity and equity in these fields.