On support for Native Americans, UC Berkeley must turn its words into actions

April 30, 2018

In 1868, UC Berkeley was founded on Ohlone land. Last week, 150 years later, the ASUC passed a resolution recognizing the campus’s role in this tragic history. Starting in the fall, the ASUC executive vice president must make the following statement at the first meeting of each semester: “I want to take this moment to acknowledge we as the Associated Students of the University of California and the University of California, Berkeley are sitting on stolen Ohlone land.”

But while it’s impressive that the ASUC, the campus’s independent student association, is taking initiative to acknowledge UC Berkeley’s dark past and make reparations, it’s unfathomable that the campus administration itself has made few actionable changes.

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