Barrows Hall is now called The Social Sciences Building. The university is working on a process to rename the buildings, it said. Joseph LeConte, photographed here in 1899, was a ...

Ninety-five percent of the 518 responses solicited about Barrows Hall approved of the change. Advertisement The unnaming follows similar decisions made by UC Berkeley and other universities this year.

Barrows Hall was named honorifically after 1919-1923 UC president David Prescott Barrows. According to the proposal to unname Barrows Hall, his actions were "anti-Black, anti-Filipinx, anti ...

Signage was also removed from Barrows Hall, which houses the ethnic studies, political science, and sociology departments, among others. Barrows once called Europeans and white people the only ...

The issue of race has the University of California, Berkeley campus buzzing, after a student group wants a building named after a member of the Black Panthers.

Barrows Hall houses the ethnic studies department here at UC Berkeley as well as the gender and women’s studies department, yet it is named after a colonial champion.