University of California, Berkeley

The official college mascot is Oski the Bear, who appeared in 1941. Beforehand, live bear offspring were utilized as mascots at Memorial Stadium. It was chosen in 1940 that a costumed mascot would be a superior different option for a live bear. Named after the Oski-goodness wow shout, he is nurtured by the Oski Committee, whose individuals have selective information of the character of the ensemble wearer.

The University of California Marching Band, which has served the college since 1891, performs at each home football game and at select street amusements also. A littler subset of the Cal Band, the Straw Hat Band, performs at b-ball games, volleyball games, and different grounds and group events.

The UC Rally Committee, framed in 1901, is the official gatekeeper of California's Spirit and Traditions. Wearing their conventional blue and gold rugbies, Rally Committee individuals can be seen at all major brandishing and soul occasions. Board individuals are accused of the upkeep of the five Cal banners, the vast California flag overhanging the Memorial arena Student segment and Haas marquee, the California Victory Cannon, Card Stunts and The Big "C" among different obligations. The Rally Committee is additionally in charge of supervision of the Stanford Ax when it is in Cal's ownership. The Chairman of the assembly board hold the title "Caretaker of the Ax" while it is in the Committee's consideration. 

Neglecting the fundamental Berkeley grounds from the foothills in the east, The Big "C" is an imperative image of California school soul. The Big "C" has its roots in a mid twentieth century grounds occasion called "Surge," which set the green bean and sophomore classes against one another in a race up Charter Hill that frequently formed into a wrestling match. It was in the end chose to suspend Rush and, in 1905, the first year recruit and sophomore classes grouped together in a show of solidarity to manufacture the Big "C". Owing to its noticeable position, the Big "C" is frequently the objective of tricks by adversary Stanford University understudies who paint the Big "C" red furthermore brotherhoods and sororities who paint it their association's hues. One of the Rally Committee's capacities is to repaint the Big "C" to its conventional shade of King Alfred Yellow. 

Cal understudies developed the school football convention of card tricks. At that point known as Bleacher Stunts, they were initially performed amid the 1910 Big Game and comprised of two tricks: a photo of the Stanford Ax and an expansive blue "C" on a white foundation. The custom proceeds with today in the Cal understudy area and fuses muddled movements, for instance following the Cal script logo on a blue foundation with a fanciful yellow pen.

The California Victory Cannon, put on Tightwad Hill ignoring the stadium, is let go before each football home amusement, after each score, and after each Cal triumph. Initially utilized as a part of the 1963 Big Game, it was initially set on the sidelines before moving to Tightwad Hill in 1971. The main time the gun came up short on ammo was amid a diversion against Pacific in 1991, when Cal scored 12 touchdowns.

Different conventions have included occasions that compass just a couple of years. William (or Willie) the Polka Dot Man was an execution craftsman who frequented Sproul Plaza amid the late 1970s and mid 1980s. The unclothed man (now departed) and Larry the Drummer, who performed Batman tunes, showed up in the late 1980s and mid 1990s.

A couple of current conventions incorporate streaking amid finals week in the Main Stacks, the Happy Man, and Stoney Burke. 

The college runs twelve diverse living arrangement corridors, running from undergrad habitation lobbies (both themed and non-themed) and family understudy lodging, to reentry understudy lodging and discretionary universal understudy lodging at the International House. Undergrad living arrangement corridors are situated off-grounds in the city of Berkeley. Units 1, 2 and 3, situated on the south side of grounds, offer skyscraper facilities with basic regions on each other floor. Units 1 and 2 share a typical eating lobby, called Crossroads. The most established unit, Unit 3, is the most established of the three and has its own eating corridor on the base floor summoned Cafe 3.Further furthermore on the south side of grounds is Clark Kerr, an undergrad living arrangement lobby complex that houses numerous understudy competitors and was at one time a school for the hard of hearing and visually impaired. 

In the foothills east of the focal grounds, there are three extra undergrad home lobby buildings: Foothill, Stern, and Bowles. Foothill is a co-ed suite-style lobby reminiscent of a Swiss chalet. As indicated by the Chancellor, it is viewed as one of the best habitation corridors at UC Berkeley. Only south of Foothill, disregarding the Hearst Greek Theater, is the all-ladies' customary style Stern Hall, which brags a unique painting by Diego Rivera. Due to their closeness to the College of Engineering and College of Chemistry, these home corridors regularly house science and building majors. They have a tendency to be calmer than the southside edifices, but since of their area alongside the theater, regularly get free looks of shows. Bowles Hall, the most established state-claimed home lobby in California, is found promptly north of California Memorial Stadium. stanch in 1929 and on the general Register of remarkable spaces, this all-men's living arrangement lobby has vast quad-inhabitance rooms and resembles a palace.