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  Sather Tower / Campanile, Berkeley
The symbol of the University of California at Berkeley is the bell tower known as Sather Tower, a 1914 reproduction of the St Marc's Tower in Venice.
Being 308ft/94m high, it towers over all the other buildings on the spacious and park-like university grounds.
The tower contains a 61-bell carillon which chimes on the hour and plays music every day at 7:50 a.m., noon and 6:00 p.m.
www.planetware.com /berkeley/sather-tower-campanile-us-ca-sthtw.htm   (148 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sather Tower
Sather Tower is a campanile (bell and clock tower) on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Sather Tower houses a full concert carillon, enlarged from the original 12-bell carillon installed in October of 1917 to 48 bells in 1979 and the current 61 bells in 1983.
Sather Tower also houses many of the Paleontology department's fossils because its cool, dry interior is suited for their preservation.
reference.com /browse/wiki/Sather_Tower   (631 words)

  
 UC Berkeley : Landscape Heritage Plan
Sather Gate, Sather Bridge, and Sather Tower are named for UC Berkeley donor Jane Sather in honor of her husband, Peder Sather.
Sather Road is the primary north-south pedestrian corridor connecting the center of the campus with the busy Sproul Plaza area and the southern egress into the city of Berkeley environment.
Sather Bridge, part of the Sather Gate ensemble and southern terminus to the road, is a concrete structure ornamented with neoclassical balustrades traversing Strawberry Creek.
www.cp.berkeley.edu /lhp/concepts/campanile.html   (3438 words)

  
 Grover's Guide to Campus Phallic Symbols
The Beaumont Tower also serves a the icon of the "Tower Guard," which was founded in 1932 as an all female honor society, dedicated to serving the needs of visually impaired students.
This tower was torn down in 1956, after which Purdue limped along towerless for nearly forty years before it's academic prowess was finally restored by the new tower in 1995.
Sather Tower (aka "the Campanile") was built in in 1913 and stands 307 feet tall.
unixpapa.com /tower   (2717 words)

  
 Campus Monuments
Sather Gate was donated by Jane Sather in memory of Peder Sather, her late husband.
Sather Tower is the most prominent monument on the campus.
Sather Tower stands 301 feet tall and is made of steel and granite.
www.csua.berkeley.edu /~yoda/cal/monuments.html   (2091 words)

  
 Sather - FOLDOC Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sather has simple syntax, similar to Eiffel, but it is non-proprietary and faster.
Sather 0.2 was nearly a subset of Eiffel 2.0, but Sather 1.0 adds many distinctive features: parameterised classes, multiple inheritance, statically-checked strong typing, garbage collection.
Sather attempts to retain much of Eiffel's theoretical cleanliness and simplicity while achieving the efficiency of C++.
www.nightflight.com /foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?Sather   (227 words)

  
 History
As a intermediate step, the development of GNU Sather is being halted until a group at Waikato, New Zealand, led by Keith Hopper, have finished their complete rework of the Sather library, which is expected any time during fall 1999.
Sather was developed at the International Computer Science Institute, a research institute affiliated with the computer science department of the University of California at Berkeley.
Steve Omohundro was the original driving force behind Sather, keeping the language specification from being pillaged by the unwashed hordes and serving as point man for the Sather community until he left in 1994.
www.gnu.org /software/sather/docs-1.2/tutorial/intro202.html   (819 words)

  
 Sather Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sather a subset or superset of Eiffel?
Sather has a very unrestrictive license aimed at encouraging contribution to the public library without precluding the use of Sather for proprietary projects.
Sather 0.2 was closer to being a subset of Eiffel 2.0 but even then introduced several distinct constructs primarily to improve computational performance.
www.icsi.berkeley.edu /~sather/faq.html   (4462 words)

  
 CD gives Cal's bells new reach / Only previous recording of carillon some consider world's best has long been ...
The CD means that Berkeley's Sather Tower, a symbol of the university and city and probably the most famous landmark in the East Bay, need not hang its head in the worldwide family of carillons.
The tower was a gift of Jane Sather in memory of her husband Peder, an early California banker and trustee of the embryonic College of California that grew into UC.
Sather Tower was closed to visitors last spring because the elevator was deemed unreliable.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/04/BA127860.DTL   (987 words)

  
 Term-Papers.us - Sather 1.1
Sather and the ICSI Sather compiler have a very unrestrictive license aimed at encouraging contribution to the public library without precluding the use of Sather for proprietary projects.
Sather implementations are expected to conform to the spirit, if not the letter, of IEEE 754, although proper exceptions, extended types, underflow handling, and correct handling of positive and negative zero are specifically not required.
Sather 1.0 was a major language change, introducing bound routines, iterators, proper separation of typing and code inclusion, contravariant typing, strongly typed parameterization, exceptions, stronger optional runtime checks and a new library design [6].
www.term-papers.us /ts/bc/cot246.shtml   (3935 words)

  
 Berkeley Landmarks :: Sather Tower (Campanile)
The Berkeley landmark is our famous bell tower, the Sather Campanile, designed by John Galen Howard and completed in 1914 as a centerpiece for the UC Berkeley campus.
A century ago (14 July 1902) half a world away, residents of Venice were shocked to hear and see one such tower—their cherished and ancient campanile in the Palazzo San Marco—give way and collapse to earth in a hail of shattered masonry and statuary.
Sather Tower and Esplanade were designated a City of Berkeley Landmark on 25 February 1991.
www.berkeleyheritage.com /berkeley_landmarks/campanile.html   (581 words)

  
 SF Gate: Bay Area Traveler: East Bay Neighborhoods: UC Berkeley Campus
Sather Tower: Built in 1914, Sather Tower, also known as Campanile, is the largest structure visible from almost anywhere in Berkeley (and parts of the East Bay).
Standing 307 feet, the tower was modeled after one that stands in the Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy.
Also named after campus benefactor Jane Sather, Campanile has 61 bells in a carillion that are played at 7:50 a.m., noon, and 6 p.m.
www.sfgate.com /traveler/guide/eastbay/neighborhoods/campus.shtml   (2829 words)

  
 Sather Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At one point, placing apartments in Sather Tower was considered.
Closeup of the bell chamber/observation deck, showing a portion of its carillon, enclosed in suicide bars.
Sather Tower • Sproul Plaza • University House
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sather_Tower   (745 words)

  
 Sather Tower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As I was approaching the tower my prayer language changed and became a warfare language.
At the tower, I found a marker on the ground and anointed that first.
As I was leaving the tower, a laughter came over me. I believe I was laughing at the devil; and I was full of joy leaving the campus.
home.earthlink.net /~viessman/Testsathertowe.html   (153 words)

  
 The Campanile
The Jane K. Sather Tower, fondly known as The Campanile, was designed by John Galen Howard and was completed in 1914.
The Campanile, with its spectacular views and singing bells, is the world's third largest bell and clock tower and by far, the most famous building at UC Berkeley.
From the open air observation deck atop the 30 story tower, you can see all of Berkeley and beyond.
www.ci.berkeley.ca.us /coolthings/Other/Campanile.html   (134 words)

  
 "Berkeley's Campanile With Mickey Mouse"
In the spring of 1970 a small group of us made a Mickey Mouse out of sheets and attached it to the face and arms of one side of the Campanile.
We have not yet found a photo of the tower with mouse, but here are four of us holding the mouse just before we put it up.
He hid in the clock tower until it was closed, climbed the stairs to the top with all the equipment, then rappelled down the clock face.
www.nbrhd.net /BerkeleySather.htm   (1128 words)

  
 HERMENAUT: Campanile Free-Fall
Sather Tower is the official icon of the University of California at Berkeley.
The tower's image adorns virtually every University publication and piece of letterhead.
The tower first opened to the public in 1917.
www.hermenaut.com /a17.shtml   (1136 words)

  
 UC Berkeley : Landscape Heritage Plan
Within the Classical Core, the composition of neoclassical buildings and landscape frame distant views to the Golden Gate and internal views to landmark buildings on campus, such as Sather Tower (the Campanile).
Dynamic views of the landmark Sather Tower (the Campanile) - the visible icon rising above trees, buildings, and city blocks - orient visitors to the campus from near and far.
Sather Road is categorized as a campus walk with its linear character (2003).
www.cp.berkeley.edu /lhp/guidelines/planning.html   (1581 words)

  
 Sather Tower - Wikipedia
Der Sather Tower, in Anlehnung an sein venezianisches Vorbild (Markusturm) auch Campanile genannt, ist mit 93,6 Metern Höhe der größte Glockenturm außerhalb Italiens.
Gestiftet und bezahlt wurde der Sather Tower von Jane K. Sather, einer Gönnerin der Universität.
Seit 1958 haben sich zahlreiche Menschen durch Sprünge vom Sather Tower das Leben genommen.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sather_Tower   (191 words)

  
 Sather Tower Project - Introduction
The Campanile of UC Berkeley, officially named Sather Tower, is the central landmark of our fair campus.
Designed by architect John Galen Howard, the 302-foot high tower was completed in 1913.
The animation below show snippet from Facade, a computer-generated movie derived from a three dimensional model that was in turn derived from photographs including kite photographs.
www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu /kap/background/Campanile/sather1.htm   (585 words)

  
 sather - Ask.com Web Search
Sather is a collaboration between ICSI and people all over the world.
Contribute your Sather source code to the GNU Sather project or assist with your development skills.
A Sather dialect, omitting all "unneeded" constructs for efficiency and ease of learning.
search.ask.com /web?q=sather   (237 words)

  
 3RD Anointing Sather Tower
The Lord directed me to anoint the tower a third time.
At the tower, I made a large cross on the marker in front of the tower and placed the bottle into the cup with the scriptures and left it pouring out on the marker.
I then went to the steps knelt down and said outloud: "I anoint you in the name of the Father-Jehovah-and of the Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth-and of the Holy Spirit".
home.earthlink.net /~viessman/Test3rdSatherto.html   (823 words)

  
 Open Directory - Computers:Programming:Languages:Sather   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sather is an object-oriented functional (multiparadigm) programming language.
The name was inspired by Eiffel: Sather Tower is a noted landmark in Berkeley, California, as the Eiffel Tower is noted landmark in Paris, France.
Sather is designed to be simple, efficient, safe, flexible and non-proprietary.
dmoz.org /Computers/Programming/Languages/Sather/desc.html   (137 words)

  
 Sather Tower Project - Introduction
The Campanile of UC Berkeley, officially named Sather Tower, is the central landmark of our fair campus.
Designed by architect John Galen Howard, the 302-foot high tower was completed in 1913.
Paul kindly asked if I'd be willing to work on the project -- he would have had to beat me with a stick to keep me away.
arch.ced.berkeley.edu /kap/background/Campanile/sather1.htm   (585 words)

  
 2nd Anointing of Sather Tower
I was pushing a shopping cart; and didn't plan this, and didn't have the oil or a cup to hold the bottle of olive oil.
As I was moving up University AV, the burden increased and the determination to anoint the tower came over me. A man in a van pulled up and asked me if I wanted a large cup of hot chocalate?
On this anointing, I made a complete circle around the tower with the oil; and then put the bottle in the cup upside down and placed on the marker.
home.earthlink.net /~viessman/Test2ndsatherto.html   (315 words)

  
 Pictures of Berkeley, California
I lived near downtown Berkeley, within walking distance of the University of California at Berkeley (or just "Cal", as people here call it).
Sather Gate and Sather Tower are a couple landmarks on campus:
The view from the top of Sather Tower:
www.htmlhelp.com /~liam/California/Berkeley   (118 words)

  
 Geological Tour of UC - Berkeley: Sather Tower (the Campanile), in fog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Geological Tour of UC - Berkeley: Sather Tower (the Campanile), in fog
Sather Tower ("the Campanile") is built mainly of California granite.
As the wind blows, it also carries with it most of the Bay Area's air pollution and drops it off around Sacramento.
seismo.berkeley.edu /seismo/geotour/campanile_fog.html   (287 words)

  
 CABERKUC
Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.
Some unusual photographs of the tower were produced by Kite Aerial Photography.
Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.
www.gcna.org /data/CABERKUC.HTM   (328 words)

  
 Sather - OneLook Dictionary Search
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Sather" is defined.
Sather : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
Sather : Dictionary of Programming Languages [home, info]
www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=Sather   (109 words)

  
 Visitor Services - The Campanile at Berkeley
An enduring symbol of UC Berkeley, Sather Tower, known as the Campanile, was completed in 1914 and stands 307 feet tall.
An elevator ride to the observation platform at the 200 foot level provides visitors with a spectacular view of the entire Bay Area and of the campus.
Produced and maintained by the Office of Public Affairs, UC Berkeley.
www.berkeley.edu /visitors/campanile.html   (185 words)

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