❝ Only the frailest of memorials, drawn in chalk on the footpath, commemorates the lives lost at the Berkeley balcony. It comprises seven coloured hearts bearing the first names of the victims – including that of Aoife Beary, who died only last January
Meanwhile, back in Kittridge Street, a banner now advertises apartments for rent. The block’s rebranding was completed last Autumn when, according to the newspaper Berkeleyside, it “quietly became part of an emerging and controversial affordable housing strategy”.
As the memorial plaque notes, both the college and city of Berkeley are “named after an Irish philosopher”, the 18th-century bishop George Berkeley. The supposed inspiration was his verse “westward the course of empire takes its way”, remembered in the 1860s by a politician who helped found the university.
College sport is huge in the US, so much so that expensive investment in university teams can be justified as a loss leader to increase the overall institution’s prestige. But in one survey, 65 per cent of Americans didn’t know that “Berkeley” and “Cal” referred to the same college. So according to the campus newspaper, the Daily Californian, the college has just set up a $100,000 taskforce to see if the divided identities can be bridged.
The statement may be academic in more ways than one. When the area was under Mexican rule in the early 19th century, most of the Chochenyo moved into Catholic “missions”. But according to one account, a “large majority” died of disease there. The tribe is little known today.
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