Cal students occupy anthropology library to protest university's plans to shut it down

by Kiley Russell, Bay City News Foundation
April 25, 2023

A group of University of California at Berkeley students took over the school’s anthropology library this week in an effort to thwart plans for its closure.

On Monday, the fourth day of an occupation that began April 21, the students said they planned to live amid the stacks 24 hours a day until the administration reverses plans to close the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library as part of its “long-term space plan.”

“We have met with the chancellor, we have tried every single bureaucratic channel,” said protest organizer Jesus Gutierrez, an anthropology Ph.D. Candidate.

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“What is at stake here are the values and principles of the university and the resources of the curated collection,” Gutierrez said.

The students say UC Berkeley administration has been trying to close the library since 2012, but a similar student-led occupation kept the doors open.

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