Chronicle of Higher Education has called it "an imposing concrete structure that most people on the campus would like to see demolished". Former chancellor Robert M. Berdahl has described the building as without "stirrings of pride in placement, or massing, or architectural design". Some complain the building disturbs the view of the San Francisco Bay. Math related murals have been painted inside the building in protest against its aesthetics. Evans Hall was repainted a gray-green so that the building would blend into the Berkeley hills. Rumors and legends Suicides A series of students at the university have committed suicide at Evans Hall, primarily by jumping off ninth or tenth floors of the building. This has led some to believe the building is haunted. It has also spawned an untrue rumor that the University has put a "suicide alarm" on the tenth floor of Evans Hall. Unabomber There is a widespread rumor that math professor Theodore Kaczynski taught in Evans Hall. He would later become an environmental terrorist known as the Unabomber. Official publications from the University have repeated the rumor. In reality, it is impossible that Kaczynski taught in Evans Hall as he left the University in 1969 and the building was not constructed until 1971. He actually had his office in temporary buildings that have since been torn down. References External links Evans Hall — The Daily Californian Alfred Twu. Evans Hall — Open Computing Facility Skyscraper office buildings in California University of California, Berkeley buildings Buildings and structures completed in 1971 Brutalist architecture in California Modernist architecture in California 1971 establishments in California