Berkeley College (Yale University)

Berkeley College
Residential college at Yale University

Coat of arms of Berkeley College
University Yale University
Location 205 Elm Street
Coordinates 41°18′38″N 72°55′40″W / 41.3106°N 72.9279°W / 41.3106; -72.9279Coordinates: 41°18′38″N 72°55′40″W / 41.3106°N 72.9279°W / 41.3106; -72.9279
Nickname Berkeleyites
Motto Esse est percipi
Animus nobilis, mentula intonans
(Latin)
Motto in English To be is to be perceived
Established 1934
Named for Reverend George Berkeley[1]
Colors Red, white
Sister college Dunster House at Harvard University
Head David Evans
Dean Renita Miller
Undergraduates 450 (2013-2014)
Mascot Thundercock[2]
Website www.yale.edu/berkeley

Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University, opened in 1934. The eighth of Yale's 12 residential colleges, it was named in honor of Reverend George Berkeley (1685–1753), dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne, in recognition of the assistance in land and books that he gave to Yale in the 18th century. Built on the site of a group of buildings known from the 1890s until 1933 as the Berkeley Oval,[3] the college was renovated in 1998.

College life

The southern portion of Berkeley College

Traditions

Annual traditions include the Bishop Berkeley Birthday Dinner for fellows and seniors, Thunder Brunch, Italian Dinner, a snowball fight (which pits North Court against South Court), GLO (a blacklight party), and the Bishop Bash, which was founded in the spring of 2002 by Ben Reiter and Charles Finch - under the guidance of the Head's Office.

Dining hall

According to the Wall Street Journal,[4][5] Berkeley had the best college dining hall in the country: until 2006 it was the testing ground for an experimental organic food and sustainable produce dining plan overseen by celebrity chef Alice Waters.[6] Currently, the dining hall has joined the rest of the residential colleges in serving the same menu, thereby rescinding its unique status. It still remains an immensely popular place to eat, largely due to its central location on campus. This immense popularity has led to the closure of Berkeley's dining hall to non-Berkeley students every Monday night, beginning in the fall of the 2012-2013 academic year.

Notable alumni

Trivia

References

  1. Berkeley College Home Page Archived February 14, 2011, at WebCite
  2. Yale College Undergraduate Admissions Facebook page
  3. "History - Berkeley College - Yale University".
  4. http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=20798
  5. Bhatia, Pooja (November 8, 2002). "College Cafeteria Food Hits New Heights With Etouffee". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2011-02-14.
  6. Leigh Cowan, Alison (May 10, 2005). "A Dining Hall Where Students Sneak In". The New York Times.
  7. Freedman, Samuel G. (30 April 1982). "Ex-Justice Stewart Relives The Eli Life". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  8. http://www.richardalbert.com
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