The LA Times is reporting that the name "Le Conte" is being removed from a building at Berkeley.* However, the gateway intersection of UCLA is Westwood and Le Conte. Things in and around the early campus were named for Berkeley faculty, e.g., Royce Hall.
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*https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-18/uc-berkeley-remove-names-leconte-barrows-halls. "...John and Joseph LeConte — the namesakes for the hall that houses the school’s physics department — were brothers from a slaveholding family who came to Berkeley in 1869, the school said. John was a professor of physics and chemistry who served as the university’s first acting president from 1869-70, and again for five years beginning in 1875. Joseph was a professor of natural science and geology and served as president of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science and of the Sierra Club, which he established with John Muir. Both had fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and were heirs to their family’s Georgia plantation, which had more than 200 enslaved people. Joseph, in particular, wrote several works “aimed at justifying, through pseudo-scientific language, the inferiority of African Americans,” the university said..."
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