Definitions for "Berkeley"
a city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley
The primary campus of the University of California at Berkeley. The origin of the Free Speech movement where the students confronted the University's policies regarding the right to be vocal and politically active on campus property. One of the centers of the protest movement in the 60's. Sproul Plaza was a gathering place for the protests.
The Berkeley was one of several ferryboats of the Southern Pacific Railroad that operated on San Francisco Bay between the Oakland Pier and the San Francisco Ferry Building for sixty years. Built in 1898, she served after the 1906 earthquake, ferrying refugees across the bay to Oakland. After being retired, she was docked for several years in Sausalito where serious deterioration took a toll.
Bishop George Berkeley; b. 1685, d. 1753.
Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)
Home of the Jackson family, and a cultural milieu which must be credited with inspiring and nurturing many of Doll Games’ most important themes, among them a commitment to Utopian models of community and the transcendence of normative gender categories.