CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 2007 California Golden Bears Football Media Guide 191 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 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 • Over half (50.5%) of Berkeley'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: 201 men (41%) and 200 These early planners dreamed of a univer- of California. The new university used the former women (65%) 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 • Five of the 13 men’s teams (38%) 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 (71%) 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, • Ten of the 13 men’s teams (77%) and College of California (a private institution) and and it was not until the 20-year presidency of eight of the 14 women’s teams (57%) 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. 15 men’s basketball game against with the addition of modern languages to the competition for campus architectural plans that, Oregon for earning a term GPA over 3.0 core courses in Latin, Greek, history, English, she stipulated, “should be worthy of the great for the Fall 2006 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 • Six teams scored perfect Academic purchase of 160 acres of land four miles north, plan but worldwide notoriety. Progress Rates for the 2005-2006 on a site they named Berkeley in 1866. (Cal’s The London Spectator wrote, “On the face of academic year, including football. 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, 2006) 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: 33,933 advantage of the federal Morrill Land Grant Act Undergraduate: 23,863 of 1862 to establish the Agricultural, Mining, and Graduate: 10,070 CAL FACTS Mechanical Arts College. Undergraduates by Ethnicity: The college was to teach agricultural, me- • Berkeley has one of the top university African-American: 3.5% chanical arts, and military tactics “to promote libraries in the nation. With well over 10 American Indian: 0.5% the liberal and practical education of the indus- million volumes and more than 400 Asian/Pacific Islander: 41.4% trial classes in the several pursuits and profes- special collections, Berkeley’s library Chicano/Latino: 11% sions in life.” Scientific and classical studies holdings are the fourth-largest in North White: 31.6% were not to be excluded but were of second- America and have been ranked first in Other: 1.5% ary importance. the nation among public libraries. Not Stated: 7.4% The boards of trustees of the College of Cali- • There are over 600 clubs on campus International: 3.2% fornia and the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechani- from which students may choose. 192 2007 California Golden Bears Football Media Guide CALIFORNIA Golden Bears guished faculty to the University, and its reputa- 14 COLLEGES tion grew, particularly in the fields of agricul- NOBEL PRIZE ture, the humanities, and engineering. AND SCHOOLS Many new departments were added in the WINNERS early years of his presidency, and existing de- • Haas School of Business partments expanded. Summer sessions were CURRENT FACULTY Administration begun in 1899 to train physics and chemistry NOBEL LAUREATES • College of Chemistry teachers and before long broadened their scope. • School of Education The University grew with the rapidly expand- AT CAL • College of Engineering ing population of California and responded to 2006 - George F. Smoot (Physics) • College of Environmental Design the educational needs of the developing state. 2001 - George A. Akerlof (Economics) 2000 - Daniel L. McFadden (Economics) • School of Information In the early 1900s the University’s new Col- lege of Commerce (now the Haas School of Busi- 1997 - Steven Chu (Physics) Management & Systems ness) trained students for export trade with the 1986 - Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry) • School of Journalism Orient and funneled graduates into industries 1964 - Charles H. Townes (Physics) • School of Law and businesses throughout the state. 1960 - Donald A. Glaser (Physics) • College of Letters & Sciences During the same period a foreign service train- • College of Natural Resources ing program was developed in response to State DECEASED FACULTY • School of Optometry Department concern about the poor quality of NOBEL LAUREATES • School of Public Health consular personnel. 1994 - John C. Harsanyi (Economics) • Goldman School of Public Policy In 1930 Robert Gordon Sproul began a presi- dency that lasted three decades. His principal 1983 - Gerard Debreu (Economics) • School of Social Welfare concern was academic excellence, and he was 1980 - Czeslaw Milosz (Literature) committed to attracting brilliant faculty in all fields. 1968 - Luis Alvarez (Physics) is brought a report that in California there is al- His success was particularly evident in the 1961 - Melvin Calvin (Chemistry) ready established a university furnished with physical and biological sciences. 1959 - Owen Chamberlain (Physics) so great resources that even to the architects In the 1930s research on campus burgeoned 1959 - Emilio G. Segre (Physics) (a lavish kind of men) full permission has been in nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology, lead- 1951 - Edwin M. McMillan (Chemistry) given to spare no expense. Amidst the most ing to the development of the first cyclotron by 1951 - Glenn T. Seaborg (Chemistry) pleasant hills on an elevated site, commanding a Ernest O. Lawrence, the isolation of the human 1949 - William F. Giauque (Chemistry) wide sea view, is to be placed a home of Uni- polio virus, and the discovery of a string of ele- 1946 - John H. Northrop (Chemistry) versal Science and a seat of the muses.” ments heavier than uranium. 1946 - Wendell M. Stanley (Chemistry) John Galen Howard, the supervising archi- Nineteen members of the Berkeley faculty 1939 - Ernest O. Lawrence (Physics) tect charged with implementing the Bénard plan, have been awarded Nobel Prizes for these and took advantage of his “permission to spare no subsequent discoveries, as well as in literature expense” and developed a style of architecture and economics, for liberal arts kept pace with that reinterpreted the grace, dignity, and auster- physical sciences. ity of classical lines to suit the California envi- In 1966, Berkeley was recognized by the ronment. American Council on Education as “the best Some of the campus’s most elegant and stately balanced distinguished university in the structures were built during Howard’s tenure, country.” among them the Hearst Memorial Mining Building (1902-7), the Hearst Greek Theatre (1903), Cali- fornia Hall (1905), Doe Library (1911-17), the Campanile (1914), Wheeler Hall (1917), Gilman Hall (1917), and Hilgard Hall (1918). President Wheeler, a classical scholar and able administrator, attracted library and schol- arship funds, research grants, and a distin- 2007 California Golden Bears Football Media Guide 193 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION ROBERT J. NATHAN BROSTROM JESSE H. CHOPER BIRGENEAU VICE CHANCELLOR – FACULTY CHANCELLOR ADMINISTRATION REPRESENTATIVE Robert J. Birgeneau Vice Chancellor- Jesse Choper, the Earl became the ninth chan- Administration Nathan Warren Professor of cellor of the University of Brostrom joined the Public Law and a former California, Berkeley, on University of California dean of Boalt Hall, serves Sept. 22, 2004. An inter- leadership team on as Cal’s faculty athletics nationally distinguished March 1, 2006.