CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Football Media Guide 191 THIS IS CAL 192 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Football Media Guide THE UNIVERSITY he roots of the University of California go cal Arts College decided to merge the two back to the gold rush days of 1849, when CAL STUDENT- schools to their mutual advantage — one had Tthe drafters of the State Constitution, a land but insufficient funds and the other had group of vigorous and farsighted people, re- ATHLETE FACTS ample public funds but no land-on the condition quired the legislature to “encourage by all suit- that the curricula of both schools be blended to • Nearly half (49%) of Cal's student able means the promotion of intellectual, scien- form “a complete university.” athletes earned a cumulative GPA of 3.0 tific, moral and agricultural improvement” of the On March 23, 1868, the governor signed into or higher. Divided by gender, they break people of California. law the Organic Act that created the University out as follows: 194 men (39%) and 200 These early planners dreamed of a univer- of California. The new university used the former women (64%) earned a cumulative GPA sity which eventually, “if properly organized and College of California’s buildings in Oakland until of 3.0 or higher. conducted, would contribute even more than South Hall and North Hall were completed on the • Four of the 13 men’s teams (31%) and California’s gold to the glory and happiness of Berkeley site (South Hall is still standing), and in 10 of the 14 women’s teams (86%) advancing generations.” September 1873 the University, with an enroll- earned cumulative GPAs of 3.0 or The university that was born nearly 20 years ment of 191 students, moved to Berkeley. higher. later was the product of a merger between the Fiscal problems plagued the new University, • Seven of the 13 men’s teams (54%) and College of California (a private institution) and and it was not until the 20-year presidency of seven of the 14 women’s teams (50%) the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts Benjamin Ide Wheeler beginning in 1899 that fi- earned cumulative team GPAs higher College (a land grant institution). The College of nances stabilized, allowing the University to than their historical average, including California, founded by former Congregational grow in size and distinction. men’s and women’s basketball. minister Henry Durant from New England, was Early in this period Phoebe Apperson Hearst, • Nearly 60 percent of Berkeley’s student incorporated in 1855 in Oakland. Its curriculum one of the University’s most generous benefac- athletes were honored at halftime of the was modeled after that of Yale and Harvard, tors, conceived of and financed an international Feb. 7 men’s basketball game against with the addition of modern languages to the competition for campus architectural plans that, Oregon State for earning a term GPA core courses in Latin, Greek, history, English, she stipulated, “should be worthy of the great over 3.0 for the Fall 2007 semester. mathematics, and natural history. With an eye to University whose material home they are to pro- • In the past two years, football has future expansion, the board of trustees aug- vide for.” The competition, won by Emile Bénard graduated nearly 90% of its seniors. mented the college’s Oakland holdings with the of Paris, brought Berkeley not only a building • Eight teams scored perfect Academic purchase of 160 acres of land four miles north, plan but worldwide notoriety. Progress Rates for the 2006-2007 on a site they named Berkeley in 1866. (Cal’s The London Spectator wrote, “On the face of academic year. Charter was introduced in 1868.) it this is a grand scheme, reminding one of those famous competitions in Italy in which Brunelleschi and Michaelangelo took part. The conception CAL STUDENT This original tract was to be considerably does honor to the nascent citizenship of the POPULATION expanded over the years. While the College of Pacific states. .” California was in its infancy, efforts continued At Oxford University, which at the time was (thru Fall, 2007) in the state legislature to create a public educa- strapped for funds, a Latin orator said, “There tional institution, and in 1866 the legislature took No. of Students: 34,953 advantage of the federal Morrill Land Grant Act Undergraduate: 24,636 of 1862 to establish the Agricultural, Mining, and Graduate: 10,317 CAL FACTS Mechanical Arts College. Undergraduates by Ethnicity: The college was to teach agricultural, me- • Berkeley has one of the top university African-American: 3.9% chanical arts, and military tactics “to promote libraries in the nation. With well over 10 American Indian: 0.8% the liberal and practical education of the indus- million volumes and more than 400 Asian/Pacific Islander: 31.1% trial classes in the several pursuits and profes- special collections, Berkeley’s library Chicano/Latino: 14.6% sions in life.” Scientific and classical studies holdings are the fourth-largest in North White: 39.2% were not to be excluded but were of second- America and have been ranked first in Other: 1.9% ary importance. the nation among public libraries. Not Stated: 8.4% The boards of trustees of the College of Cali- • There are over 600 clubs on campus International: 3.6% fornia and the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechani- from which students may choose. DID YOU KNOW? Jack Bauer, the hero of the hit show “24,” supposedly earned a master’s degree from Cal. CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Football Media Guide 193 President Wheeler, a classical scholar and 14 COLLEGES able administrator, attracted library and schol- NOBEL PRIZE arship funds, research grants, and a distin- AND SCHOOLS guished faculty to the University, and its reputa- WINNERS tion grew, particularly in the fields of agricul- • Haas School of Business ture, the humanities, and engineering. CURRENT FACULTY Administration Many new departments were added in the NOBEL LAUREATES • College of Chemistry early years of his presidency, and existing de- • School of Education partments expanded. Summer sessions were AT CAL • College of Engineering begun in 1899 to train physics and chemistry 2006 - George F. Smoot (Physics) • College of Environmental Design teachers and before long broadened their scope. 2001 - George A. Akerlof (Economics) 2000 - Daniel L. McFadden (Economics) • School of Information The University grew with the rapidly expand- ing population of California and responded to 1997 - Steven Chu (Physics) Management & Systems the educational needs of the developing state. 1986 - Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry) • School of Journalism In the early 1900s the University’s new Col- 1964 - Charles H. Townes (Physics) • School of Law lege of Commerce (now the Haas School of Busi- 1960 - Donald A. Glaser (Physics) • College of Letters & Sciences ness) trained students for export trade with the • College of Natural Resources Orient and funneled graduates into industries DECEASED FACULTY • School of Optometry and businesses throughout the state. NOBEL LAUREATES • School of Public Health During the same period a foreign service train- 1994 - John C. Harsanyi (Economics) • Goldman School of Public Policy ing program was developed in response to State Department concern about the poor quality of 1983 - Gerard Debreu (Economics) • School of Social Welfare consular personnel. 1980 - Czeslaw Milosz (Literature) In 1930 Robert Gordon Sproul began a presi- 1968 - Luis Alvarez (Physics) is brought a report that in California there is al- dency that lasted three decades. His principal 1961 - Melvin Calvin (Chemistry) ready established a university furnished with concern was academic excellence, and he was 1959 - Owen Chamberlain (Physics) so great resources that even to the architects committed to attracting brilliant faculty in all fields. 1959 - Emilio G. Segre (Physics) (a lavish kind of men) full permission has been His success was particularly evident in the 1951 - Edwin M. McMillan (Chemistry) given to spare no expense. Amidst the most physical and biological sciences. 1951 - Glenn T. Seaborg (Chemistry) pleasant hills on an elevated site, commanding a In the 1930s research on campus burgeoned 1949 - William F. Giauque (Chemistry) wide sea view, is to be placed a home of Uni- in nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology, lead- 1946 - John H. Northrop (Chemistry) versal Science and a seat of the muses.” ing to the development of the first cyclotron by 1946 - Wendell M. Stanley (Chemistry) John Galen Howard, the supervising archi- Ernest O. Lawrence, the isolation of the human 1939 - Ernest O. Lawrence (Physics) tect charged with implementing the Bénard plan, polio virus, and the discovery of a string of ele- took advantage of his “permission to spare no ments heavier than uranium. expense” and developed a style of architecture Twenty members of the Berkeley faculty have that reinterpreted the grace, dignity, and auster- been awarded Nobel Prizes for these and sub- ity of classical lines to suit the California envi- sequent discoveries, as well as in literature and ronment. economics, for liberal arts kept pace with physi- Some of the campus’s most elegant and stately cal sciences. structures were built during Howard’s tenure, In 1966, Berkeley was recognized by the among them the Hearst Memorial Mining Building American Council on Education as “the best (1902-7), the Hearst Greek Theatre (1903), Cali- balanced distinguished university in the fornia Hall (1905), Doe Library (1911-17), the country.” Campanile (1914), Wheeler Hall (1917), Gilman Hall (1917), and Hilgard Hall (1918). DID YOU KNOW? Assistant coaches Bob Gregory and Jim Michalczik were teammates at Washington State. 194 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Football Media Guide CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION ROBERT J. NATHAN BROSTROM JESSE H. CHOPER BIRGENEAU VICE CHANCELLOR – FACULTY CHANCELLOR ADMINISTRATION REPRESENTATIVE Robert J. Birgeneau Vice Chancellor-Ad- Jesse Choper, the Earl became the ninth chan- ministration Nathan Warren Professor of cellor of the University of Brostrom joined the Uni- Public Law and a former California, Berkeley, on versity of California in dean of Boalt Hall, serves Sept.