"When we honor the University of California, we celebrate with good reason its academic renown, its impressive list of Nobel Laureates, its contributions to the sciences and the humanities.... Whatever the high rankings of Berkeley's graduate schools, the undergraduates remain the principal strength of the University; the curiosity they bring to the classroom and the culture of discourse in which they participate is its life blood. In that spirit, I welcome Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, as a means of preserving and extending the commitment of Berkeley students to intellectual inquiry, to asking the most uncomfortable questions, to insulting proprieties, to questioning and shaking beliefs, institutions and systems of long standing, and, if necessary, to disturbing the peace. Of the many traditions of this campus, these are the most precious, and I expect this journal to advance and nourish them."

--Professor Leon F. Litwack, Morrison Professor of History