I went to all the parks in the Bayview. Here s what it was like.
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A walker climbs the hill in Bayview Park in San Francisco on March 8, 2021.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE
As soon as I crest the grassy 425-foot peak and take a moment to enjoy the sprawling vista, it hits me. Where is everybody?
Sure, it’s a Tuesday, but I somehow have the 44-acre Bayview Park almost entirely to myself on a sunny afternoon. Aside from one woman and her dog, and a few city workers I saw driving to the radio tower, the trails are empty, and the 360-degree view that includes the bay, the downtown skyline, and the Bay Bridge is unobstructed. Birds are chirping loudly, towering eucalyptus trees sway in the breeze and the distant sound of Highway 101 hums in the background.
University Denames Another Hall, Fourth In 12 Months
Bay City News Service
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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.
The next challenge for S.F. school district? Choosing new names for a third of its schools
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Sixth-grader Elijah Wigfall, 12, stands in front of James Denman Middle School, one of the schools the board voted to rename.Yalonda M. James / The Chronicle
A third of San Francisco schools will get a new name in the coming months, ending a years-long process to reconsider the country’s racist past and eliminate the name of slave owners and colonizers on band uniforms and high school diplomas.
The controversial decision by the board Tuesday night to rename 44 school sites garnered national attention and split the city, with some criticizing the timing and process during a pandemic and others arguing change needs to happen now to recognize the ongoing racism and trauma affecting students of color.