 Cal Day is a beloved tradition, a celebration of everything that Cal offers and a chance for the university to showcase everything that makes it great to incoming freshmen. This year, prospective students were given a taste of what makes UC Berkeley truly famous worldwide, the spirit of protest. As the day's celebrations were hitting their strides Saturday, members of the Black Student Union formed a human barricade blocking Cal Day visitors from passing through the Sather Gate. We struggle with culture on this campus in general, we struggle with being marginalized, like it's important that this is on Cal Day because we need attention, like we need people to know what's happening. Nobody knows that there's issues with Black students here because nobody talks about it, so it's important to have all these people see what's going on. Students participating in the protest called for Chancellor Dirks to make a number of reforms to improve the quality of life for African-American students and to address the shrinking percentage of African-Americans being admitted as freshmen. So they're the low yield because Black students that get admitted don't want to come here because they know it's a racially hostile climate. The importance of this is showing that we're willing to fight for what we need, we know what we need. People want to form all these committees and task forces to decide what Black students need, we're telling the administration what we need. I definitely think that we've been able to highlight and bring a very important point to today being Cal Day, being that the campus is constantly represented as a very utopia for Black students for everybody and we're able to bring up a new reality that a lot of people are ignored constantly.