University Denames Another Hall, Fourth In 12 Months
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This Wednesday, June 1, 2011 photo shows Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley campus with the Campanile in the background in Berkeley, Calif. For a one-time hotbed of protest, this liberal college town is pretty chill these days. You're more likely to hear rumblings about the latest in the food revolution than people power. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)Eric Risberg/AP
By Keith Burbank
BERKELEY (BCN)
University of California at Berkeley officials on Tuesday stripped another hall of its name, the fourth in a year's time.
Kroeber Hall, which honored anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, was unnamed because he continues to be associated with the ideas of exclusion and erasure of Native Americans. Kroeber is remembered as the founder of the study of anthropology in the American West.