UC Berkeley scrubs Cesar Chavez's name from student center

"The unnaming came after a rapid but formal review by a campus committee, including hundreds of public comments that campus officials said overwhelmingly supported removing Chavez's name from the center."

"Credible allegations of sexual abuse, particularly involving women and minors, constitute a profound violation of the core values UC Berkeley upholds, a group of campus administrators and alumni wrote in their proposal to remove Chavez's name from the student center."

"Across California, where Chavez became famous for helping build the United Farm Workers union and leading a nationwide grape boycott to draw attention to farmworkers' struggles, communities have scrambled to respond to the allegations about his past."

UC Berkeley removed Cesar Chavez's name from a student center following credible allegations of sexual abuse against him. A campus committee conducted a formal review, receiving overwhelming public support for the decision. The center, renamed for Chavez in 1997, will temporarily be called the Student Center. Communities across California are also responding to the allegations by removing Chavez's name from various landmarks. A proposal suggests renaming the center after Dolores Huerta, a key figure in the farmworker movement alongside Chavez.

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