The ASUC Senate moved to suspend its bylaws Wednesday night in order to fund a bus to transport students to the March 5 Day of Action in Sacramento.
A senate bill to support the March 1 and March 5 Days of Action — which will involve protests against budget cuts and tuition increases — was passed at Wednesday’s senate meeting. The bill provided $868 to fund a bus that will shuttle students to Sacramento on March 5, and stated that the ASUC will use its community support, resources and channels of communication to endorse the planned protests.
Campus administrators will fund two to three additional buses. ASUC External Affairs Vice President Joey Freeman said about 110 students have signed up for the buses so far.
The bill was introduced at Wednesday’s meeting, and ordinarily would have to go through committee for approval before returning to the senate floor next week, at the earliest, for a vote. However, due to the time-sensitive nature of the bill — the Sacramento protest begins Monday — author of the bill, Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein, called for the senate to suspend its bylaws.
The senate took similar action earlier this month to support student protest when it voted Feb. 7 to fund a bus to send students to a Feb. 13 Day of Action. The protest expressed support for overturning Proposition 209, a 1996 bill that prohibits affirmative action in admissions to public institutions.
That bill led to a senate floor discussion by students both for and against the funding of the buses and the question of whether the senate’s decision to support the protest aligned with the views of the campus community.
Chloe Hunt is the lead student government reporter.
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Are you fucking kidding me. When was the ASUC Senate a political organization. I’m a student at Cal and its become obvious to me that these “Senators” just run for office in order to push their own political ideology. I can’t believe my tuition is funding this sort of crap. I know this bill is going to pass with 99% of the Senators voting yes. The ASUC shuts down political dialogue (such as the Republican bake sale) when it doesn’t fit into their own world views, but on issues like this has no care and spends students money to advance their own misplaced cause.
[The ASUC Senate moved to suspend its bylaws Wednesday night in order to
fund a bus to transport students to the March 5 Day of Action in
Sacramento.]
So just like the little criminal thugs in the Occupy Whatever movement, the ASUCK types break whatever rules that might inconvenience them at the moment. Hopefully someone remembers that the next time you people piss and moan about someone ELSE doing the same.
They didn’t break their rules. They have a procedure for suspending bylaws, they don’t just spontaneously do this. Of course, if they suspending the bylaws to find buses to go burn Occupy tents, I’m sure you’d be praising them for not wasting their time on petty ASUC matters when they are tents to go burn!
I see you’re being a silly child as usual.
Try rephrasing without name-calling, poopy-pants.
Pot, kettle, black…
And guess what else is on March 5, when few people who care are around to attend?
The Police Review Board meeting to publicly discuss the events of Nov 9! You know, the day that Birgeneau + Breslauer did nothing to stop police from beating a bunch of students engaging in civil disobedience!
Want to let Associate Vice Chancellor for University Communications,
Claire Holmes, know that she should reschedule this meeting?
E-mail her at: [email protected] (She sent out the e-mail
announcing the date and location of the meeting).
Now, who is this Claire Holmes character, and how much do we pay her
to schedule of interest to the public at times that conflict with, well,
the public interest?
“Holmes comes to Berkeley after a 10-year career at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. Most recently she held the position there of vice president for national media, public relations, and stakeholder management. In that post she supported the CEO and executive leadership with external communications, led a team managing corporate and media communications, and advised on crisis management…As associate vice chancellor, Holmes will earn an annual base salary of $230,000.”
Crisis management, eh?