A Giant Moves On

"In the 1960s, Berkeley students would congregate in Peoples Park, then move on to the administration building, and march past our building to University Hall across the street," Sheehan recalls. "At the height of the protests, then-Governor Reagan ordered the National Guard into Berkeley. National Guard troops lined the streets and were stationed on the roof of our building during the protests. Some current employees remember having to close all the windows, as the National Guard troops were disbursing the crowds with tear gas.