Cal Kids Hello teachers, parents, counselors, and chaperones! This self-guided tour is designed to help facilitate your students’ experience at our university. It will take you through the campus and give you fun and interesting facts about our buildings, programs, history, and traditions. Depending on your time, feel free to use as much as you like and use the map at the end of this packet. Please make sure to keep your students quiet when inside buildings! Thank you so much and we hope you have a wonderful experience at Cal!

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1 KORET VISITOR CENTER Browse through the displays to learn more With digital displays and visuals, the about our students, faculty, Koret Visitor Center is a fully and history. interactive and immersive space Ask our front desk staff for visitors on campus. any questions you have before you start on your tour!

2 CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STADIUM

California Memorial Stadium was Walk down the stairs originally constructed in 1923 and is from Gate 3 or Gate 4 and actually built right on top of the catch a glimpse of our Hayward Fault. The facility is home to Simpson Center for our Division 1 football and lacrosse Student-Athlete High teams. It can seat up to 63,000 people! Performance through the glass!

3 STURDY BEAR STATUE

Sturdy is the biggest bear statue on Take a picture standing campus, installed and dedicated in fall next to this nearly 10-foot of 1996. The bear is positioned with tall statue! its head flung back toward the Sturdy is just one of the stadium, as if it can smell victory in many bear statues we have the air. Our official mascot, created in on campus. Keep count as 1941, is Oski the Bear. you continue on your tour! 4 HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

One of our graduate schools, the Haas School of Business, is the second oldest See if you can find business school in the nation and the another bear statue (this first established at a public university. time, a pair of bears) The new Chou Hall is a Zero Waste within the Haas School of student-centered space (only Business! compost and recycling).

5 WURSTER HALL/KROEBER HALL Wurster Hall houses the College of Environmental Design, one of our Check out the Phoebe A. undergraduate colleges specializing in Hearst Museum of architecture and design. It is designed in Anthropology within a style known as “Brutalism” which Kroeber Hall! serves environmental purposes through Head into Wurster and the use of concrete and glass. Beside it try to find some of the is Kroeber Hall, which houses the artwork and murals within Art Practice and Anthropology the building! Departments. 6 MORRISON HALL Here is our school’s music Opened in 1958, Morrison Hall houses department! Can you see any the core facilities of the Department of displays of past or upcoming Music. May T. Morrison, one of the performances? university’s first female graduates, Across the way from donated $2.5 million in 1956 for its Morrison Hall is the Jean construction. Within the building, there Gray Hargrove Music Library. are instrument collections, practice Peek into the windows to rooms, and performance spaces. catch a glimpse of our 180,000 volumes of books and music!

7 FACULTY CLUB/FACULTY GLADE

Faculty Club is a facility offering meals Roll down Faculty Glade! and banquet facilities to faculty, staff, Try finding the statue of university guests, and visitors. Faculty Pappy Waldorf! He was Cal’s Glade, also known as 4.0 Hill, is a hill football coach from 1947 - incoming freshmen roll down in hopes 1956 and led the Bears to 3 of attaining a 4.0 GPA. consecutive Rose Bowls. HEARST MEMORIAL 8 MINING BUILDING

This building used to house the College Hearst Memorial Mining of Mining, one of the original colleges at Building actually has a mine the university. Today, it is the center for located to the north of it! research on materials science and The mine still exists, but is engineering. It is part of the Hearst no longer open to the public. Mining Circle, which includes Stanley Go inside and look Hall, Evans Hall, and other buildings upwards to see the beautiful around you. architecture! 9 EVANS HALL Near Evans, you will see Named after Griffith C. Evans, parking spaces dedicated to a leader in mathematics, Evans houses some very important the Departments of Mathematics, individuals. Can you guess Economics, Logic, and Statistics. The who they are? They are for Computer Center in the basement holds amazing Berkeley faculty computers that handle administrative who have won the Nobel work and educational research. Prize!

10 CAMPANILE Can you find the two At 307 feet, the Campanile is the third bears on the bench near tallest clock and carillon tower in the the entrance to the tower? world. The carillon instrument at the top They are bowing their is made up of 61 bells, with the heaviest heads to honor those who bell weighing 5.5 tons. The Lincoln Bust died in World War I. on the south side of the tower was built For a breathtaking view, by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, pay for a ticket at the front Gutzon Borglum. desk and take the elevator to the top of the tower! 11 SOUTH HALL South Hall is the oldest building on campus, originally housing the College of The smallest bear statue Agriculture. Today, it houses the newest on campus is within the graduate school, the School of architecture of this building! Information. It is committed to Can you see it? Look within expanding access to information and the third ring from the left improving usability while preserving on the balcony over the security and privacy. doorway. 12 DOE MEMORIAL LIBRARY Doe Memorial Library is just one of the Do you know which Greek twenty-seven libraries we have on Goddess is above the door? campus. Inside is the North Reading That’s Athena, the goddess Room, a large study space with lots of of wisdom! natural light. Underneath your feet is Take a picture sitting next another library, a 3-story underground to Mark Twain! He is on structure called Gardner Main Stacks, bench just inside the main and it is a football field and a half long! doors.

13 MEMORIAL GLADE Hang out on the Glade and Memorial Glade is a place students love see how students like to relax to relax, whether it be taking a nap or in their free time! throwing around a frisbee. The classes Find the three university of 1945, 1946, and 1947 provided funds seals located on the ground to construct this memorial to around you! It should have individuals who served in World War II. ‘Fiat Lux’, our university Cal’s competitive quidditch team also motto, located on a streamer utilizes the Glade for their practices. below an open book. ‘Fiat Lux’ means ‘Let There Be Light.’

14 MOFFITT LIBRARY With approximately one million trips through its doors every year, Do you see the various Moffitt Library is one of the busiest newspapers lining the right undergraduate libraries in the nation. It is side of the library entrance? Berkeley’s first 24-hour library for Read them to find out what is five days a week. The 4th floor is a happening in the world “buzz floor,” where students work in today! collaborative spaces while the 5th floor is a “hush floor,” where most study alone.

15 CALIFORNIA HALL California Hall houses offices of the chancellor and some vice chancellors. Do you see anything The location of the chancellor’s office unusual about the doors of caused the building to be the focus of California Hall facing the several demonstrations. During the Free entrance of Moffitt? There Speech Movement, which started in are no handles! Read the 1964, the door handles were chained paragraph on the left to find and locked. They were removed and to out why! this day, no administrative building on campus has adjacent door handles. 16 VALLEY LIFE SCIENCES BUILDING Go inside and visit our Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB) is the T-Rex, Osborn, and his largest building on campus and houses Pteranadon friend, Marsh! the departments of molecular and cell At the semicircle-shaped biology, and integrative biology. In bench, stand at the spot addition to classrooms, labs, and lecture indicated below and speak. halls, VLSB contains a life-size cast of a You should be able to hear T-Rex, found in eastern Montana. an echo of your voice! bench

17 EUCALYPTUS GROVE

Eucalyptus Grove, located near VLSB, covers one acre and marks the joining of Can you find the tallest the north and south forks of Strawberry tree? When we last Creek, which runs throughout campus. measured, the center tree These trees are among the tallest was around 200 feet tall! eucalyptus trees in California!

HAAS PAVILION 18 Do you play any sports? Lots of sports can be Haas Pavilion can seat up to 12,000 played at Cal and we even people and is home to the California have some athletes in the Golden Bears Basketball, Volleyball, and Olympics! Guess how many Gymnastics teams. Behind the building Olympic medals we have is the Recreational Sports Facility, a earned? A total of 185! facility where students can exercise and Walk in and take a look play different sports. at the display cases. These are many of the trophies our university has earned! 19 ZELLERBACH HALL Zellerbach Hall is home to Cal Does anyone dance, sing, Performances, the west coast’s largest or play an instrument? Cal presenter of the performing arts, has extracurricular groups including music, theater, and dance like our marching band and artists from around the world. The UC Choral Ensemble that Zellerbach Auditorium, with 1,984 seats, students can join. Many is a theatre equipped for symphony dance groups on campus orchestra, grand opera, ballet, and also practice in the plaza dramatic events. you are standing in. 20 LOWER SPROUL PLAZA Lower Sproul Plaza is a place where students can engage in social, academic, Can you find the golden and recreational activities. Eshleman Hall bear statue in the middle of provides work space for student the plaza? The structure was government and campus clubs. Cesar donated to the university as Chavez Student Center houses many a 50th anniversary gift from student services and resources, like the the class of 1929. Student Learning Center, a late night study facility. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 21 STUDENT UNION

With areas like the Student Multicultural Do you see any bears in Center, the building contains conference the architecture of MLK and meeting rooms, various food Student Union? Look at the vendors, and study spots for students. door handles! There is also an Amazon Student Center Want to buy some Cal located within the building for any gear? Head to the Cal students picking up packages. Student Store inside this building!

22 UPPER SPROUL PLAZA Upper Sproul Plaza is the heart of Overlooking Sproul Plaza student life and campus activities. It was are little bears within the a major site of the Free Speech railings of the 2nd floor Movement in 1964, resulting in student balcony of Sproul Hall. Can groups being able to table and hold you see them? rallies on the steps of Sproul Hall at Ludwig’s Fountain on noon. If you are visiting on a weekday Sproul Plaza is named after during the normal school semester, you a dog that used to play in it may see some of the many clubs we all day. have handing out flyers.

23 SATHER GATE Sather Gate is one of our most famous Has anyone ever watched campus landmarks. It was donated by Monster’s University? Pixar, Jane K. Sather in memory of her located in Emeryville, used husband, Peder Sather, who was a some structures of university trustee of the College of California. campuses and Sather Gate Before World War II, this gate marked was one of them. the southern entrance into campus. DISCOVER MORE

24 RESIDENCE HALLS/DINING COMMONS Unit 3 and Blackwell Hall are some of our residence halls located on Durant Avenue, close to where this route ends. (Refer to the map for guidance.) Blackwell Hall is Berkeley’s newest freshman living space, opened 2018, positioned on the corner of Durant Avenue and Dana Street. 92% - 96% of our university’s freshmen live in campus housing where Residence Hall staff provide an interactive environment where students can grow and learn outside of the classroom.

25 TELEGRAPH AVENUE If you want to grab a bite to eat or see where students usually roam during their free time, you can visit Telegraph Avenue by just walking south from Upper Sproul Plaza. Since the street sits right next to the university, many students are able to eat a meal at any of the shops and eateries along the road and make it back to campus for class.

26 BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is the visual arts center of the university and can be reached by heading west from the Valley Life Sciences Building. It not only engages audiences from UC Berkeley, but also throughout and beyond the Bay Area. Within the museum, there are displays, libraries, and centers dedicated to art and film, as well as a small gift store. Campus Map 2

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