Parents of UC Berkeley student who drowned during frat party file wrongful death lawsuit

The parents of a 19-year-old UC Berkeley student who died after drowning at a fraternity party last month are now suing the ...
East Bay Times

With George Berkeley’s slave-owner past uncovered, will the city or university consider a name change?

A Welcome to the City of Berkeley sign with the slogan “Ohlone Territory” erected near the intersection of College and Alcatraz avenues on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, in Berkeley, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay ...
berkeleydailyplanet

Philosopher, Portrait and Place: Bishop Berkeley Goes Back on the Wall

Sunday February 05, 2012 - 05:19:00 PM There’s a story that when George Berkeley, the future philosopher, was a student he decided to see what it was like to approach death. He hung himself, arranging ...
The Irish Times

What does the ‘denaming’ of Trinity’s Berkeley Library mean?

First things first: what is the Berkeley Library? Trinity College Dublin’s largest library – opened in 1967 – has been named after George Berkeley, the world renowned philosopher, since the 1970s. You ...
insider.si.edu

Bishop George Berkeley

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1726, the Anglican clergyman and philosopher George Berkeley wrote, “Westward the course of empire takes its way,” ...
Irish Central

Irish slave owner's namesakes considered in California

The names of the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley in California are being questioned for their links to George Berkeley, an Irish philosopher who bought and owned slaves in Rhode Island in the 18th ...
SFGate

Gasp! Berkeley will celebrate its namesake / City to honor bishop despite his possible imperialist bent

At first glance, Berkeley -- an anti-imperialist city if there ever was one -- seems to have egg on its political face. The city that replaced Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples Day" is ...
The Irish Times

Does Ireland’s ‘greatest’ philosopher stand the test of time?

George Berkeley occupies a place in philosophy above perhaps any other Irish thinker. But the former bishop of Cloyne and Trinity College Dublin alumnus, who is being remembered by his alma mater with ...
The Spokesman-Review

With George Berkeley’s slave-owner past uncovered, will the city or university consider a name change?

But now, historians at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, have renewed scrutiny of records indicating that the city’s namesake – Bishop George Berkeley, an 18th-century Irish philosopher and ...