Scandalous

Tony Platt's The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley is an interesting read.  Much of the material is familiar, but the book does root Phoebe Apperson Hearst's inveterate collecting of physical artifacts, including lots and lots of human remains, and the consequent need to display and store them at the heart of the university's problems.  It's similar to how her social and philanthropic rival Jane Stanford's morbid obsession with her dead relations was the original intended focus of the junior university on her farm.  Then again, no one repeatedly tried and ultimately succeeded in gruesomely killing Hearst with rat poison.