The University of California, Berkeley, has been trying for years, against determined opposition, to build new student housing on part of the iconic property.
Before his FTX crypto exchange imploded and he went on trial for fraud, Mr. Bankman-Fried ran a global business empire spanning Berkeley, Calif., Hong Kong and the Bahamas.
Plans to build apartments have sparked a fight between progressive newcomers and nostalgic old-timers — with surprising allegiances in a writer’s hometown.
Students are staging an open-ended occupation of the anthropology library after the University of California, Berkeley, announced it would shutter the 67-year-old institution to save money.