Leon Litwack Won’t Take None of Your Shit.

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, April 16th, 2007

Leon Litwack, a professor of history at Cal, and winner of the 2007 Golden Apple, will be retiring at the end of the semester. His “ideal last lecture” is tomorrow night at 6:30. Anyone who keeps on getting applause from stingy Berkeley students must’ve done something right.

It was another standing ovation for Professor Leon Litwack this morning (Wednesday, March 21) in his History 7B class.

Such shows of appreciation for the University of California, Berkeley, social historian and iconoclast are reaching a fever pitch in the final countdown to Litwack’s retirement at the semester’s end. In his half century of teaching more than 30,000 students about America’s checkered racial history, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author has won fans of all ages and persuasions.

But the applause today was particularly poignant. Surprising Litwack and his several hundred students in Wheeler Auditorium, a group of student leaders on campus interrupted the class to announce that the 77-year-old history professor had won the 2007 Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching. The annual award is given to a faculty member by a committee of UC Berkeley students.

We always appreciate people who can qualify for Social Security that understand the needs for Snoop Dogg to garner his hos. I mean, look at that dude. We’d be afraid to blink at him. We’re just hoping he’ll rap it up at the lecture at Wheeler tomorrow. Anything less would be a let-down.

Leon Litwack [Wikipedia]
History Professor Awarded ‘Golden Apple’ [Daily Cal]
Students adore retiring historian [UCBerkeleyNews]
(Picture from Harvard Gazette)



Topics: Events, Professors, UC Berkeley

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