Once a group of overseas students went travelling; when the hotel manager found out where they were from, the reaction was, "Isn't that that school where the students never study, and just protest, sing songs, and have standoffs with the police?"
曾有留學生到加州鄉下旅行，旅館主人得知他是柏克萊學生時的反應是：「就是那個學生不好好讀書，老是出現在電視上，舉著標語抗議遊行，嘶吼高唱和警察對抗，聲名狼籍的學校嗎？」