On Friday Feb. 7, Cal junior Ted Agu collapsed and died while training with the Cal football team.
UC Berkeley held a memorial for Agu on Feb. 12.
In an Opinionator piece published on Berkeleyside, Cecil Brown, a visiting professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley, writes of the young man he briefly got to know, and the place of African American students at the university. Agu displayed leadership qualities as well as a wonderful personality, he says, but many of the small number of African American students and faculty at Cal have a hard time.
Join the discussion and leave your comments on the Opinionator piece.
Berkeleyside welcomes submissions of op-ed articles. We ask that we are given first refusal to publish. Topics should be Berkeley-related and local authors are preferred. Please email submissions to us. Berkeleyside will publish op-ed pieces at its discretion.
