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Student Union 22 Northwest Animal Facility 23 Pimentel Hall 24 Seismic Replacement Building 25 Soda Hall 26 Sproul Hall 27 Tolman Hall 28 Unit 1 Residential Complex 29 Unit 2 Residential Complex 30 Unit 3 Residential Complex 31 Valley Life Sciences Building 32 Wurster Hall BIRGE HALL AKA: U1 Built in: 1964 Home to: Physics Food: No Places to Check Out: 1. The first home of the CSUA, Computer Science Undergraduate Association. CALIFORNIA HALL AKA: Cal Hall Built in: 1905 Home to: UC Administration and East Asian Library. Food: None in the EAL, no idea if there are any upstairs Formerly housing lecture halls, Cal Hall was converted to offices for UC top administration after their Sproul offices had been repeatedly occupied. To secure the building, the doorknobs on all but one door were removed, and a guard posted in the entrance to keep out people with no business being there. This does not mean that students are banned from this building though, as the expanding East Asian Library has long since outgrown its cramped attic space in neighboring Durant Hall, requiring a third of its collection to be housed in the basement of California Hall. The remaining third that doesnt even fit in this expansion is housed off in a warehouse at the Richmond Field Station, and patrons need to request books and pick them up the next day. The eventual construction of the new Asian Studies building will solve this problem. CENTRAL DINING FACILITY AKA: Super DC, Crossroads Built in: 2003 Home to: Dining commons and office space. The old Unit 1 and 2 DC's had serious problems, by that I mean seismic ones (though I don't mean to ignore the food quality issues). Not only will this building stand up to the Big One, but it will also serve up to Cal student's eating needs. Plans for the CDF include less of the "mystery meat" style buffet lines and more food prepared on the spot so those who are eating it can see the making of it. Whether or not that's a good thing is still too soon to tell. Additionally, a new parking deck will be built on the site of the old Underhill Parking Structure, which was demolished in 1993 as it was then one of the seismically worst structures on campus. Comments now that's its open: The super DC has awesome food, it's got everything all the time. The only drawback is that its lines are very long around 7:00 PM. CORY HALL AKA: None Built in: 1950 Home to: EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) Food: Yes. Surprisingly, this building is over fifty years old, making it older than EECS itself, which was created from the double-E department in 1972. The first of the modern-styled buldings on campus, Cory Hall began its life as a general engineering department. Over the years, EE and subsequently EECS grew exponentially, several other engineering buildings went up, and by the present day, this entire building is EECS. For those who do not know, EECS is the undisputed hardest major offered at Berkeley. The first hardest is Computer Science, the second if Engineering, the third is Architecture, the fourth is Molecular and Cellular Biology. EECS is in a class of its own and is therefore not ranked. Of all the large modern boxes, Cory Hall is the least criticized for ugliness. Part of it is due to its out-of-the-way location in the northeast corner of campus, but you do got to give the architect credit. With its tinted windows, smooth white surfacing, and the stylized electrical circuit ornament, Cory has the appearance of a streamlined VLSB. Part of it has to do with the building's numerous vertical expansions over time, part of it has to do with the odd trapezoidal site on a steep slope, but in any case the building is a real maze. Worst of all, although all the floors look the same from the outside, they have vastly different floorplans. The location of the restrooms and the elevator are similarly bad. If you use a wheelchair, you are best advised not to take EECS as a good part of Cory is not accessible. Fortunately, a renovation/seismic retrofit is on the planning board. In 1982, a bomb planted by the Unabomber went off in a Cory Hall faculty lounge, injuring a professor. In 1985, a second bomb planted by the same man went off in a Cory computer lab, injuring a student. Cory Hall has the dubious distinction of being the only place hit by the Unabomber twice. After the second time, people using Cory Hall grew more vigilant, and eventually the guy got caught. The Experimental Computing Facility, also known as the XCF, was started in the mid 1980s (I believe 1985) and was given a room in Cory Hall known as the "fishbowl", so named due to its small size. XCF students developed software that played a pivotal role in the development of the Internet, most notably, finding a cure for the Internet Worm computer virus in 1988. Cory's hallways are filled with showcases that are a must-see for any geek. Exhibits include the latest electronic gadgets, robots, and stuff from HKN = Eta Kappa Nu, the EECS Student Honor Society. This lounge has 3 parts- a room, a courtyard outside the room, and another room inside the courtyard. The room is for studying, the courtyard for partying, and the room inside the courtyard for foosball, table tennis, and sleep. DWINELLE HALL AKA: Freshman Maze Built in: 1952 Home to: English, Other Languages, History, Theater, Women's Studies, various other liberal arts departments Food: No The second largest building on campus, Dwinelle has just over 300,000 square feet of maze, er, I mean space. The real story behind the building's convoluted floorplan and numbering system has to deal with its origin as two seperate buildings, one with classrooms and one with offices. To accomodate Berkeley's expanding size, Dwinelle underwent numerous expansions over the years, one of which added two floors to the north part and grafted the two buildings together. The story of the two feuding brothers and their rival construction companies is pure CalSO myth. Floor G is one of the highest floors labeled G anywhere. Entrances are at A, B, C, and D depending on where you are. Due to the large size and number of classes held in Dwinelle, it has often been a target for fire alarm pulls associated with protests. Basically protestors pull the alarm to empty the building in hopes of getting more supporters who would otherwise be stuck in class. Less drastic measures include invasion of the two main lecture halls on Level D. Where else can you see five stairwells, two elevators, and hallways going off in every direction? A room used in Fall 2002 for the internationally infamous Simpsons De-Cal class. In other words people would go watch The Simpsons and then talk about the show, for 2 credits. ETCHEVERRY HALL AKA: None Built in: 1964 Home to: Nuclear Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, MechaniCAL Engineering, This and That Engineering, etc. Food: No Berkeley's forgotten giant, Etcheverry Hall is roughly the same size as big bad Barrows Hall. However, being built into a hill off the main campus on the Northside and having only the small front end facing the street, most Berkeley students probably don't even know that it exists. The first building built by the University north of Hearst, (Goldman School of Public Policy was purchased) Etcheverry is UC's first beachhead into what is going to eventually become a swallowing up of Hearst Avenue much in the way Allston and Kittredge were built up from the 1930s to the 1960s. It was followed by Parking Structure A (1967), Parking Structure H (1971), Foothill Student Housing (1990) and Soda Hall (1994). Currently, an addition to Soda Hall, known as Soda Hall II, is in the planning stages. Etcheverry's two basement levels (floors 1 and 2) extend past the surface structure underneath what is now Soda Hall. These contain the various machine shops used by the engineering departments. The comic strip Nukees (from Nuke E's- Nuclear Engineering), drawn by Darren Bleuel, a UC nuclear engineering grad student about the NE department, is set in Etcheverry. The MechaniCAL engineering department and the Nuclear Engineering department often have interesting displays in the hallways. Tien ...
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