Academic Scavenger Hunt

Academic Scavenger Hunt UC BERKELEY

1) CHÁVEZ STUDENT CENTER

Built in 1960
Namend in honor of the founding president of the farm worker's union (César Estrada Chávez)
Services: Student advising, Center for transfer, Re-entry and Student Parents, The Golden Bear, resources and services, student arts organisation

Room 119 - The drop in center for EOP students

2) SATHER GATE

Prominent Landmark
Popular spot for leafleting and politicking
Built 1909
Named after the pionieer California banker Peder Sather
Seperates Sproul Plaza from the bridge over Strawberry Creek, leading to the center of the UC Berkeley

3) CAMPANILE

4) DINOSAUR - VALLEY LIFE SCIENCES BUILDING

A freestanding mount of Tyrannosaurus rex at the centerpiece of the atrium
Above the T. rex is a Pteranodon ingens soaring with a wingspan close to 22 feet

5) DWINELLE HALL - KNOWN AS A MAZE

Built in 1952
One of the largest buildings on campus
Seems as a maze due to the fact, that there is a massed up floor plan and messed up numbering system
Reason for that: Dwinelle was supposed to be two seperate buildings
Classics, Rhetoric, Linguistics, History, Film Studies, French, German, etc.

6) WHEELER HALL

7) CROSSROADS

Green-certified building at UC Berkeley
Nation’s first organic certified kitchen on a college campus Crossroads
Dining options: breakfast, lunch and dinner every weekday/ brunch and dinner on the weekends/ a popular late night grill and study lounge Sunday to Thursday
Adress: 2415 Bowditch St, Berkeley, CA 94704

8) THE WHISPERING BENCH

Also known as the Jubilee Bench
Donated by the class of 1897 and was placed in 1922
Located just down the steps from the Campanile
The name was given due to the fact that you can sit across from each other on the bench and clearly hear each other's voices without having to speak louder than a whisper

9) ADMISSIONS - SPROUL

Designed in the early 1940s
First stop of students embarking on their academic career at Cal
It hosts admissions, financial aid, registar and the campus visitor services
Steps in front of the building are called Savio Steps, in honor of Mario Savio, who gave a famous speech in 1964

10) HAAS BUSINESS SCHOOL

Built in 1995
Designed by Charles Moore
Mini-Campus of three connected buildings
The $55 million project was financed by private donations
In 1989 the UC Berkeley Regents voted to rename the Business School in honor of Walter A. Haas, after a large gift from the Haas family

11) GREEK THEATER

12) NORTH GATE

13) MINING CIRCLE

Built in 1914
Directly south of Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Surrounded by green and featuring a beautiful circular reflecting pool at its centre

14) BOALT HALL - COLLEGE OF LAW

15) FOOTBALL

The California football team is called the California Golden Bears
Team began to play in 1885
The California Memorial Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the campus
It seats around 63.000 footballfans
Was funded from public contributions as a memorial to Californians who lost their lives in World War I.

16) FREE SPEECH - MOFFITT

Free Speech Movement (FSM) Cafe
Located at the entrance to Moffitt Library
Place to gather, study or for enducational events
In honor of Mario Savio, who played a key role in the struggle for free speech at UC

17) EXPENSIVE FENCE - CHANCELLORS HOUSE

The Chancellor Nicolas Dirks and his family live on campus
They have been unnerved by a series of security breaches leading to the built of a fence
The costs were raising up to $ 700.000, more than 2 1/2 times the original projection
This disgusts many people

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