UC Berkeley Tour Guide
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Inform, Promote, and Protect
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mission of Visitor & Parent Services
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GCTs
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General Campus Tour: 90-minute public walking tours available Monday - Saturday at 10am, Sunday at 1pm, and Monday - Saturday at 1pm in the spring
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working at the Campanile
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Don't accept bills over $20, no food or drink, bags must be kept at cashier's desk, give tour guide check-in sheet on weekends.
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Floors of the Campanile
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Level 1: library of carillon music with two practice rooms Levels 2 - 5: Paleontology Department stores animal fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in LA, between 10,000 and 30,000 years old! Level 6: Carillonists office and practice room
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working at the VC
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check in visitors, make courtesy calls, answer phone and emails, review tour schedule, use daily tally sheet For group tours, can only accept exact fee in cash or check payable to UC Regents
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Aristotle's Modes of Persuasion
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Ethos (building credibility, Pathos (appeal to your audience), Logos (using facts and statistics)
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Tour guidelines
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positive attitude, tell your Berkeley story, check that group can hear you, wear watch, have fun!
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essential tour subjects
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housing & dining academic structure applying to Berkeley colleges & schools safety health
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Main Route
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Sproul Plaza Lower Sproul Alumni House/Haas Pavilion VLSB Moffit/California Hall Doe Library/Memorial Glade The Campanile School of Chemistry Faculty Glade South Hall/Wheeler Hall Dwinelle Hall/Sather Gate Sproul Plaza
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Weekend Route
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Campanile Faculty Glade Chemistry Complex Hearst Mining Doe Library/Memorial Glade California Hall VLSB Alumni House/Haas Pavilion Sather Gate Sproul Plaza
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Sproul Hall
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main administration building, houses UCPD, Visitor & Parent Services, and financial, registration, and documentation services
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Upper Sproul Plaza
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main site of FSM in 1964, where students set up their clubs, Ludwig's Fountain (German shorthair pointer doggie), newly renovated MLK Student Union houses ASUC and student store
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Lower Sproul Plaza
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Eshlemann Hall newly built in 2015, Zellerbach Auditorium holds 2,015 seats for CalPerformances, SLC housed in Cesar E. Chavez Student Center, Golden Bear Statue donated by Class of 1929 as 50th anniversary gift
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Alumni House & Haas Pavilion
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headquarters of Cal Alumni Association which publishes California magazine, Haas Pavilion built in 1977, seats 12,000 and houses Golden Bears Basketball, Volleyball, and Gymnastics, named after Haas family (owners of Levis Strauss)
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VLSB
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Valley Life Sciences Building, 1930 one of largest academic buildings in the country, houses molecular and cell biology, integrative biology, and plant biology, contains Osborne and Marsh, research facilities open to public on Cal Day
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Moffit & California Hall
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Moffit built in 1970, one of entrances to Main Stacks, open until 2am and 24/7 during dead week and finals; California Hall built in 1905, houses chancellor's office, doorhandles removed after FSM
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Doe Library, Main Stacks, & Bancroft Library
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$1.4 million construction completed in 1911, \"Athens of the West\": Athena said to grant wisdom to those who enter, houses North Reading Room; Main Stacks has 2.1 million volumes in 3-story underground structure; Bancroft Library houses rare books collection, including the works of Mark Twain, original golden nugget, and University Archives, open to publice
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The Campanile
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$250,000 construction completed in 1915, 3rd tallest clock tower in the world, stands 307 feet tall, modeled after Piazza San Marco in Italy, celebrated 100th anniversary last year, 61-bell instrument making it an official Carillon, 45-minute concerts on Sundays, Great Bear Bell marks hour 8am - 10pm, Hanging Danny Deever played beginning of Dead Week, weighs 12 million pounds, 3x as structural sounds than needed (safest building), \"Fiat Lux' = Let There Be Light
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Hearst Mining Circle
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Hearst Memorial Building (1907) houses original College of Mining, College of Engineering formed from original Colleges of Civil Engineering, Mechanic Arts, and Mining; Evans Hall houses L&S advising as well as Math, Econ, and Stats; Campbell Hall newly renovated in 2015, rooftop observatory has 10-inch reflecting telescope!
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Chemistry Complex
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Pimentel Hall (1964) has 3-part rotating stage; Lewis Hall (1917) names after Gilbert Lewis who was Dean of CoC and invented Lewis Dot Structures; pultonium discovered in Gilman Hall by Novel Laureate Glenn Seaborg
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Faculty Glade
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Pappy's Statue and naked nymph, 4.0 hill, good location to talk about athletics & Stanford rivalry
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South Hall & Wheeler Hall
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built in 1873, oldest building on campus that originally housed agriculture department, now houses graduate school of information, smallest bear located on stop of balcony! Wheeler Hall (1918) named after Benjamin Ide Wheeler (UC President), houses department of English and Wheeler Auditorium, which seats 760
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Sather Gate & Dwinelle Hall
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donated by Jane Sather in memory of husband (1910), naked women represent agriculture, architecture, art, and electricity, men represent letters, mining, medicine, and law; Dwinelle Houses most humanities departments including languages, rhetoric, and linguistics, over 60 languages taught on campus, most confusing building ever
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College of Chemistry
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freshman enter declared as Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or Chemical Biology, Lewis dot structures invented during Chem 1A, Seaborg discovered 10 elements and rearranged Periodic Table, 13 Nobel Prizes among faculty and alumni
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College of Engineering
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Bioengineering, civil and environmental engineering, EECS, industrial engineering, material sciences, mechanical engineering, and nuclear engineering; all graduate and undergrad programs ranked top 10 in 2015, acceptance rate was 9.7%
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College of Natural Resources
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originally College of Agriculture and School of Forestry (combined in 1974), includes agriculture and resource economics, energy resources, ESPM, NST, plant and microbial biology, and environmental sciences, only 1800 students
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College of Letters & Science
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home to half the faculty and 3/4 of undergrads, 80 departmental majors, impacted majors include CS, Econ, Public Health, Social Welfare, among others, 13 Nobel Laureates among L&S faculty
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Breadth Requirements
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Arts & Literature Biological Science Historical Studies International Studies Philosophy & Values Physical Science Social & Behavioral Science
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College of Environmental Design
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Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City & Regional Planning combined to form CED, now houses Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, and City & Regional Planning, alumni Irving Morrow designed Golden Gate
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Schools
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Haas School of Business School of Education School of Information Graduate School of Journalism Boalt Hall - Berkeley Law School School of Optometry School of Public Health Goldman School of Public Policy School of Social Welfare
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Campus Housing
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over 90% of freshmen live in dorms, almost 70% of students receive top 3 choices, offers available in early June, housing includes: Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 (Foothill & Stern) Clark Kerr Campus Martinez Commons Wada, Martinez, and Channing Bowditch apartments University Village
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Theme Programs
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African-American Asian Pacific American Casa Madgalena Mora (Chican@) Native American WISE: Women in Science & Engineering Global Environment Unity House (LGBTQ)
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Off-campus Housing
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Berkeley Student Cooperative (co-ops) International House Greek Life (house 12% student population) rental properties
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Safety
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24-hour locked res halls, security monitors, UCPD in 1 Sproul Hall, 100 Blue Light emergency phones, Bear Walk, Night Safety Shuttles, Bears that CARE, Warn Me
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Dining
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meal plans work on point system, friendly for vegans and vegetarians, Cal 1 Card also used at various off-campus locations, convenience stores at Unit 3 and Foothill
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Student Health Insurance Plan
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SHIP covers urgent care, optometry clinic, radiology, pharmacy, student health promotion, rape prevention, first five CPS appointments free, pregnancy counseling, a other social services, also covers hospitalization, off-campus care, and dental coverage, centered at the Tang Center
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Applying to Berkeley
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unvirsityofcalifornia.edu/admissions Filing period is November 1 - 30 Office of Undergrad Admissions in 103 Sproul Hall comprehensive review of application
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Spring Admissions
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Fall Program for Freshmen Global Edge Spring enrollment (L&S students only)
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Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks
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Berkeley's 10th chancellor, bachelor's in African and Asian Studies from Wesleyan, and master's and PhD on South Asian history from U of Chicago, initiatives include Berkeley Global Campus
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Cal Athletics
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Pac-12 with 27 NCAA D1 teams, 99 gold Olympic medals since 1920, including Nathan Adrian and Missy Franklin; if Berkeley were a country, it would rank 6th for number of Olympic gold models at 2012 Olympic Games
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Cal Football
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Memorial Stadium seats over 63,000, dedicated to university students who lost their lives at WWII, freshmen get free season pass, includes Simpson Center for Student Athlete High Performance, card stunts invented at 1910 Big Game
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Recreational Sports Facility
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RSF includes full gym, running tracks, four pools, racquetball, basketball, tennis courts, and equipment rental; Cal Adventures offers sailing, kayaking, and other outdoor recreation; IM sports for almost all sports, free membership for students
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Research Centers & Institutes
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also known as Organized Research Units (ORUs) Energy Biosciences Institute Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) Townsend Center for the Humanities Blum Center for Developing Economies
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Undergrad Research Opportunities
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URAP Haas Scholar Program Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Program Townsend Center Research Apprenticeship College of Engineering Biology Scholars Program UC Berkeley Washington Center
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Cal Alumni Association
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CAA founded in 1872, one of the largest alumni associations in the world, distributes $2 million in undergrad scholarships, publication of California magazine, Cal Alumni Student Association
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Notable Alumni
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Irving Morrow, designer of Golden Gate David Wineland, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics Earl Warren, Chief Justice of Supreme Court Douglas Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse Tom Anderson, creator of Myspace
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Graduate Student Instructors
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1700 GSIs teach every year, evaluated by students, attend class, prepare section and labs, and handle administrative questions, offer more individual attention to students
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Osborn
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T.rex found in Montana, fossils provided clues to function of T.rex arm for the first time, over 300 bones cast from original skeleton, Berkeley paleontologist assembled fossils with help of undergrad students
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Marsh
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pteranodon found in Midwestern states, alive during Cretaceous Period, wingspan is 22 feet, bones almost completely hollow, not more than 20-25 lbs
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Founding of University
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named after George Berkeley, Irish philosopher and poet who said, \"Westward the course of empire take its way\", College of California remains in Oakland 1862 - Lincoln signs Morill Land Grant Act, required instruction in agriculture, mechanical arts, and ROTC March 23, 1868 (Charter Day) - University of California establish College of California became College of Letters Henry Durant is first president 1873 - opening of South Hall, university moves to Berkeley campus University of California = UC Berkeley = Berkeley = Cal
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Golden Bear mascot
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1895 - Cal track team is overwhelming underdog and becomes very successful, carried a blue banner with bear embroidered in gold, crowd called them the Golden Bears, Charles Mills Gayley writes \"The Golden Bear\"
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School Colors
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Yale Blue and California Gold - chosen by Class of 1874 during committee meeting that had lots of Yale alumni, gold for the Golden State and golden poppy
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University Seal
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designed by Tiffany & Co. in 1895, contains open book with letter \"A\" to represent beginning of wisdom, university motto \"Fiat Lux\" is below book, five pointed star symbolize discovery of knowledge
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Oski
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real bear cubs used to serve as Berkeley mascot, Oski was created in 1941 and wears size 54 sweater, no one knows who wears the costume!
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How Axe Came to Berkeley
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April 15, 1899 - Stanford/Cal baseball game in San Francisco, 15-inch steel blade used to taunt Cal, Cal stole it and snuck across the bay on the ferry, remained in Berkeley for 31 years and stored in vault, now is the football trophy for winner of Big Game
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Big \"C\"
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1905 - Benjamin Ide Wheeler suggested Classes of 1907 and 1908 build giant \"C\" on hills to commemorate the end of the Rush, which was a traditional campus rivalry held on Charter Day
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Stephens Hall
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named after Henry Morse Stephens in 1923, old location for men's and women's clubrooms, now houses academic senate and several ethnic studies departments and library
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Statue of Pappy Waldorf
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Cal Football coach 1947 - 1957, led Bears to 3 consecutive Rose Bowls, statue revealed in 1994, clipboard has scores of all Big Games, tradition to blindfold Pappy before every home game so he's not distracted by naked tree nymph
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Durant Hall
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completed in 1912, originally School of Law (Boalt Hall), but renamed after first president of University, home of L&S dean's office, stone statues are Ming dogs from China (not lions!)
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John Galen Howard
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architect that shaped face of Berkeley in 1890s, founder and head of UC's School of Architecture, designed: California Hall California Memorial Stadium Doe Memorial Library Durant Hall Greek Theatre Hearst Memorial Mining Building LeConte Hall North Gate Hall Sather Gate and Bridge Sather Tower (the Campanile) Senior Hall Stephens Hall Wheeler Hall Women's Faculty Club
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Benjamin Ide Wheeler
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president of Berkeley 1899-1919, student enrollment and faculty tripled, twenty new departments, UC Extensions in LA, treated students as adults
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Robert Gordon Sproul
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first alumnus to preside over university, saved Berkeley from despair during Great Depression, transformed UCLA, university made Sproul cede power and hired Clark Kerr as first chancellor of Berkeley campus, but continued as president of UC system until 1958
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Ernest Lawrence
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winner of 1939 Nobel Prize for physics for invention of cyclotron, makes Berkeley first public university to receive Nobel Prize, youngest professor on campus, heavily involved in development of Hiroshima bomb, Lawrence Hall of Science and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in his namesake
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg
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transferred to Berkeley for grad school, discovered more than 100 isotopes of existing elements, new elements including plutonium, drafted into Manhattan Project in 1942, created atomic bomb, but opposed its use on civilian targets, reconstructed periodic table, element 106 (Seaborgium) named after him in 1974, first director of Lawrence Hall of Science
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Jane K. Sather
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donated $526,000 to the university, benefactor of the Campanile and Sather Gate in honor of husband
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Free Speech Movement
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FSM led by Mario Savio againt administration, series of peaceful protests and rallies calling for student political activity, students had spent summer in deep south registering black voters and now wanted to raise political awareness: October 1964 - Jack Weinberg arrested and Mario Savio makes famous cop car speech December 1964 - Sproul Hall occupied, Mario Savio gives speech on Sproul steps, 16,000 students and faculty gather at Greek Theatre to address free speech, Academic Senate votes to approve student demands January 1965 - students allowed to table 7am to 6pm at Bancroft & Telegraph, allowed to protest on Sproul Hall steps noon to 1pm, amplified sounds allowed 4pm to 6pm
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Daily Californian
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established in 1871, Daily Cal is one of the oldest college newspapers in the country, entirely independent and free, published M-F during school year and twice a week during summer
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Marching Band
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founded in 1891, over 200 students participate in traditional marches, performs at all home games and some away, includes Straw Hat Band which performs at other sporting events
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Rally Committee
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founded in 1901, official Custodians of the Stanford Axe, organizes rallies and events, invented the card stunt in 1910 Big Game, fires the Victory Cannon after each touchdown at home games
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Racial Composition
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45% Asian 30% White 16% Latino 14% International 4% African American 1% Native American 0% Pacific Islander
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Demographic Distribution
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73% Californians 13% out of state 14% international
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Financial Aid
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62% students received aid average award was over $15,000 39% students take out loans average loan is over $4000 average debt after graduation: over $17,000
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Areas of Study distribution
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20% Social Sciences 12% Biological and Life Sciences 12% Engineering 5% Interdisciplinary Studies 5% Math & Stats 46% all other degrees
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Nobel Laureates
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22 total, including 9 living and 7 current faculty: Saul Perlmutter (Physics) - discovery of accelerating expansion of the Universe George Smoot (Physics) - research on Big Bang Theory Glenn T. Seaborg Oliver Williamson (Economics) Randy Schekman (Physiology/Medicine)
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Elements discovered at Berkeley
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16 elements, including... Plutonium (94) Berkelium (97) Californium (98) Lawrencium (103) Seaborgium (106)
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Tuition & Fees
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Tuition - $13,000 Housing - $14,000 Health Insurance - $2500 Total, including other expenses - $35,000 Nonresident total - almost $60,000
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Applications & Admissions
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over 100,000 students applied for 2016-2017 acceptance rate: 17.3% average GPA: 4.17 some students can submit letters of rec biggest international countries represented are South Korea and China 40% of transfer and 31% of freshmen are first generation college students student per faculty ratio: 17 to 1 undergrad classes with fewer than 50 students: 85% 91% freshmen graduate in 6 years
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Top Majors
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EECS Economics Poli Sci Business Psychology Integrative Bio Mech E English Sociology Architecture History
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Rankings
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2016 US News & World Report: #1 public university in the nation #3 Engineering #7 Business (MBA) 2014 US News & World Report: #1 in the nation for graduate programs in chemistry, CS, English, history, public policy, and sociology
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FAQs
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oldest departments are Agriculture and the Mining & Mechanical Arts, Berkeley is on semester system because faculty didn't like quarter system, loquat trees in front of Dwinelle and London Plane trees in front of Sproul Plaza and Campanile Esplanade
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Fun Facts
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more than 1000 employers recruit on campus, Berkeley offers 8000 courses in 350 degree programs, Freshmen and Sophomore seminars, campus is a leader in sustainability
