Charges have been filed against the ASUC and ASUC President Vishalli Loomba for the executive order Loomba issued voiding the Daily Californian’s V.O.I.C.E. initiative.
On Friday, Solicitor General Erin Delaney and former Attorney General Kevin Gibson submitted a charge sheet to the Judicial Council on behalf of Lynn Yu, campaign manager for the V.O.I.C.E. initiative. The charge sheet states that Loomba’s move to void the initiative during the second day of the election violated the ASUC constitution because the action was not “urgent and necessary to maintain the functioning of the ASUC,” as the constitution requires for issuing executive orders.
Loomba’s executive order invalidating the initiative — which asked students voting in this year’s ASUC election if they would pay $2 per semester to help fund the Daily Cal — was the result of concerns that the initiative could be in violation of UC policies against funding a non-university entity through student fee referendum funds. The ASUC Senate voted to uphold Loomba’s executive order at its Wednesday meeting.
The campus previously received a whistleblower report stating grievances against the initiative on April 8.
However, the charge sheet states that the executive order “undermines the principles of democracy to which our student government is committed. Further, it punishes the authors and proponents of the VOICE Initiative who for approximately a year have worked to ensure that every precaution was taken to ensure that their referendum had legitimacy in the ASUC elections.”
The charge sheet requests an expedited hearing by the Judicial Council and advocates for the executive order to be overturned.
Read the full charge sheet below:
Alisha Azevedo is the assistant university news editor.
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Charges have been filed? Oh my god, so what’s bail gonna look like? This is serious.
“the action was not “urgent and necessary to maintain the functioning of
the ASUC,” as the constitution requires for issuing executive orders.”
Haha! Doesn’t bureaucratic squabbling taste good in the morning with your Loops of Fruit and Smacks of Honey?
OTOH, TheFIRE suggests that the initiative has bigger problems:
http://thefire.org/torch/#14394
“In addition to conflicting with UC policy, this type of student group funding mechanism is likely unconstitutional. As we discussed with respect to a ballot measure at the University of Oregon last week, such funding referenda violate the fundamental principle of viewpoint neutrality in student fee funding decisions, dictated by the Supreme Court’s decision in Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth (2000).”
Givens: get the lead out of yer behind and give us some elaboration on this point.
ASUC President Vishalli Loomba is a disaster as President of the UC Berkeley student body as she and the rest of the student Senate take orders from the University as opposed to being a truly independent student government.
The University administration, represented by the Dean of Students Jonathan Pollard, and Ms. Loomba have been trying to shut down the Daily Cal for a long time because they have been subject to public scrutiny by the media such as the Daily Cal. They are against a free press and have no understanding of basic constitutional principles including Free Speech.
Loomba has learned to say the right words like “dangerous precedent” to disguise her real motives which is to suppress the media. She is disingenous and a henchwoman for the Chancellor and the University administration. She thinks we are stupid enough to believe her as well.
As an independent student newspaper the Daily Cal has written objective critiques of the current ASUC Senate including its officers like Loomba. Loomba should have never come to Cal as her behavior displays values inconsistent with independent student thought. She does the the bidding of University hacks like Pollard.
Perhaps she would have been better suited for a more conservative campus in say San Diego as opposed to Cal whose foundation and history is grounded in the Free Speech Movement the Daily Cal represents. She certainly has no place at Cal and will go down in history as one of the worst ASUC Presidents Cal has ever had.
yo, ASUC has been a bunch of useful idiots for the administration long before Loomba came along.
(where have you been, living under a rock?)
not that I’m defending Loomba…
this, though is rather pathetic (as it inappropriately conflates partisanship or party ideology with non-partisan shortcomings such as insincerity and self-interested subservience to the authoritarians):
“Perhaps she would have been better suited for a more conservative
campus in say San Diego as opposed to Cal whose foundation and history
is grounded in the Free Speech Movement the Daily Cal represents.”
Anyone who cares to look upon the words and deeds of the administration and its lackeys knows very well that what goes on (ie what is wrong) is not a matter of partisanship.
The administration deals in deceit, it speaks and acts in bad faith toward all other parties. The administration has neither respect for the law nor for the truth, and pays no mind to notions of ‘common decency’ or ‘civic duty’.
Most importantly the individual administrators lack the capacity for shame.
Apparently you have no idea about the history of the Daily Cal and the ASUC. Several times in the past decade, the ASUC (and more specifically Student Action) have saved the Daily Cal from fiscal ruin.
Hmmm…. but apparently Loomba and this year’s ASUC does not want to do this so regardless of what occurred in the past. Tthe bottom line is the Daily Cal is facing being closed down for lack of support by student government. What happened in the past is done and over with. It does not resolve today’s situation.
But an illegal referendum is fine, right? Jesus, you people are hypocrites.
lmfao good luck… your desperation undermines your integrity
Cal kiddies file charges….yawn