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UC Berkeley removed the names of LeConte and Barrows halls Wednesday morning after the campus's Building Name Review Committee recommended the change. Over the summer, the committee reviewed ...
it would certainly be disappointing if this investigation did not result in a new name for Barrows Hall. The colonialist notions that David Prescott Barrows professed during his life are a far cry ...
When we say that Barrows Hall is named after a colonizer, we mean it. David Prescott Barrows described Pilipinxs as “savages” and implemented a system of colonial education meant to ...
Perhaps most dramatic request is to change the name of the campus ethnic studies building, from Barrows Hall to Assata Shakur Hall. "Her story is emblematic of the black freedom struggle in the ...