Stories for April 1, 1998: Admissions Numbers Disappoint Clark Kerr: Higher Education in Perspective There's Something New Under the Sun at Cal Day '98 Deconstructing the Barbie Myth Selection Process Nears Completion For Regents' Chancellor's Scholars Notes on Barbie History Goes Digital at the Hearst Museum Code Blue Stations Go Online It Pays to Exercise Happy 100th Birthday to Campus Plan Community Relations Projects Benefit Both City and Campus Acknowledging Public Health Heroes A Micro Laser Is on the Horizon Food on the Run Around the Globe New Titles in Order for Christ, Hyatt Fast Facts are Foremost as "Jeopardy!" Comes to Campus Mukansinga Aids Rwandan Survivors Student Callers are Stars in Telephone Fund Raising ASUC, University Agree on bookstore		Happy 100th Birthday to the Campus Plan by Steve Finacom Physical and Environmental Planning posted Apr. 1, 1998 This year marks the 100th anniversary of the official opening of the Hearst Architectural Competition for a physical plan for the Berkeley campus. The competition shaped the physical character of the campus in a manner and style unequaled before or since. Many of our most prominent and be-loved campus features – Sather Gate, Sather Tower, Hearst Mining Buil-ding, Doe Library, Wheeler Hall – resulted from the competition and the ultimate selection of fourth-place winner John Galen Howard to be the architect charged with implementing the Hearst Plan. In many respects the competition was also the starting point for modern planning and the study of architecture at Berkeley, since Howard became the founding head of a vigorous Department of Architecture. On Jan. 5, 1898, prospective competitors in the Hearst Competition could receive and open their informational packets, if they were outside Europe. If they were in Europe, they had to wait until Jan. 15, 1898. The 10-day difference was so those outside Europe would not be at a time disadvantage in completing their entries and shipping them to Antwerp for the judging. Three visionaries – regent and benefactor Phoebe Hearst, regent and alumnus Jacob Reinstein and drawing instructor Bernard Maybeck – got the competition underway. [ Back to top ]

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