I almost went to Berkeley back in the day. Off topic but I came across this from the Berkeley Campus News that gave me a chuckle.
They might have the ultimate safe space (well that is until the next 'big one').
The UC Berkeley campus is filled with secret spaces and little-known places. Some are closed to the public, while others are hiding in plain sight. Hidden Berkeley is an occasional photo essay series that shines a light on the hidden places that add to Berkeley’s lore.
Hidden on the north side of campus, locked behind a metal-grated door but visible if you know where to look, are 900 feet of UC Berkeley’s mining history. The door leads to the Lawson Adit, a mine shaft blasted into the Berkeley hills — directly across the Hayward fault — more than 100 years ago by students.
Berkeley scientists have long been among the best in the world, and that was no different a century ago, when the campus was a leader in the science and technology of mining. The adit is named after Andrew Lawson, a pioneering geology professor in the the College of Mining who is credited with identifying and naming the San Andreas fault. For decades, students in the college learned proper mine-building skills, how to safely handle explosives and how to rescue trapped miners.
In the 1970s, in large part to keep fraternities from forcing pledges to spend the night deep in the mine, the shaft was sealed from the public. It is rarely visited today by anyone except those who maintain the mine and check on its earthquake-monitoring equipment.
UC Berkeley’s Office of Public Affairs was recently given a behind-the-scenes tour of the mine, a rare look into the campus’s mining history. Follow along as we take you deep inside. http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/07/27/hidden-berkeley-inside-the-lawson-mine-shaft/
