For the first time, Berkeley has chosen an Indigenous name for a campus building and consulted with Indigenous people in the process.
A five-building UC Berkeley apartment complex in Albany designed just for graduate students is nearing completion and will be called xučyun ruwway (HOOCH-yoon ROO-why), a name in Chochenyo, the language of the Ohlone people.
This is the first time Berkeley has given a name in any Indigenous language to a campus building or consulted with an Indigenous group to name one of its buildings.
In Chochenyo, "xučyun" is the name of the...