Lore
Many facets of the UCI main campus' design have become the subject of campus folklore. Many myths surround the theory that the campus was designed to stifle student protests because the campus was built when large-scale student protests were occurring at college campuses around the country, particularly the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. Among the most popular myths are:
- A network of tunnels under the campus serves to facilitate safe evacuation of faculty and an entry point for the National Guard in the event of a protest. The tunnels actually exist, but serve as conduits for HVAC and telecommunications wiring.
- The circular design of the campus was meant to provide a location (Aldrich Park) where protesters could be easily surrounded. The university believes that the genesis of the circular design came from then-UC President Clark Kerr while scribbling on a napkin.
- Recessed windows of the campus' original buildings were meant to prevent people from scaling the outside of the buildings, and to serve as hiding points for snipers. Officially, the university owes this design to the Brutalist-style architecture that the campus' original buildings were designed in. The "hoods" that cover the windows on many of these buildings were designed to keep direct sunlight from excessively heating the interiors.
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