As a UC Berkeley student who&#x27;s never taken one of Coward&#x27;s classes, I&#x27;ve heard great things from every single friend of mine whose taken his class (&quot;I love Coward&quot; is heard a lot). I know students are already rallying to keep him at Cal. However, I think that perhaps the Math Department at Cal doesn&#x27;t deserve such a great professor if the system is as decrepit as described.