Within walking distance on the Berkeley campus are emblems of both a vanished academic world and the diversity-industrial complex that ousted it. Emblem 1: In Bauhaus-era typography, a quotation from Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo adorns the law school’s otherwise brutalist facade. “You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. He presents learning as a heroic enterprise focused not on the self but on the vast world beyond, both past and present. “Respect the full humanity of others,” urges Na’ilah Suad Nasir, the vice chancellor for equity and inclusion.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 06, 2017 12:01 UTC