Photos

This is Sproul Hall, formerly the administration building at UC Berkeley. It's a beautiful and rather imposing building, and I shot close to it and up so that it looked even more imperial. I have many shots of this building from the front, but I just like this one best. No saturation here; the sky was really that blue!

Here's a clip from Wikipedia that will tell you more about Sproul Hall's historical significance:

Upper Sproul Plaza is bordered to the east by Sproul Hall, which was formerly the location of the campus administration, and is today the location of student and admission services. To the north is Sather Gate, which leads into the central campus, and to the south are Telegraph Avenue and the South Campus area of Berkeley. Sproul Hall is situated on a rise above Upper Sproul Plaza and features a broad, terraced stairway leading to the entrance. Large numbers of students file past Sproul Hall on the way to class or on the way to Telegraph Avenue.

The combination of a stairway that can be used as a large raised platform and a ready audience makes Upper Sproul Plaza a popular location for student protests, the first of which occurred in 1964 during the Free Speech Movement, when Mario Savio spoke from the Sproul Hall steps and folk singer Joan Baez gave an early performance. Upper Sproul Plaza was also the site of early teach-ins and protests against the Vietnam War, the 1969 gassing of People's Park protestors by the National Guard, 1985 protests against University investment in apartheid-era South Africa, and many other political events.