University of California Student Association President Angelica Salceda has stepped down from her position, UCSA officials said Wednesday.
Salceda, who was elected president of the association in August, chose to resign because of personal obligations, according to Darius Kemp, organizing and communications director for the UCSA. Kemp said the UCSA Board of Directors has scheduled a special election to find a new president this weekend.
“She believed that she could not dutifully fulfill her term as president with the amount of personal obligations she had,” Kemp said.
The UCSA is a statewide student organization that focuses on issues of accessibility and quality at the University. It is composed of representatives from student governments at UC campuses.
Salceda, who is currently a third year law student at UC Berkeley, will remain on the UCSA Board of Directors and will still serve as the External Affairs Vice President of the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly, Kemp said.
She could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Angelica is smart and knows not to waste her time in an irrelevant little club that doesn’t represent all UC students. She probably cares deeply about minority issues but feels used by SJP, and then decided UCSA is not worth her time any more.
“Personal obligations?”
Is that like when celebrities go to rehab for “exhaustion?”
who’s next in line?
unfortunately for those who want to read something bigger into this – either that aipac was in the backroom pulling the strings or that she has succumbed to political pressure – they will be sorely disappointed. i know angelica and basically she doesn’t have time to be both ucsa president, ga vice president while also attending law school full time. sometimes people have to put their studies first.
Of course, the most important position in UC student government becomes the thing she removes from her schedule when she finds she is too busy.
That’s assuming that the UCSA has a bit of importance to start with.
If she doesn’t have time, then she shouldn’t have run for the office in the first place.
How selfish.
Good for her. I’m rooting for her future success as a judge or prosecutor even if she ends up defeating many conservative opponents. Go Bears!
Shady business. Daily Cal needs to investigate what really happened here.
AIPAC ?
Oh yes, you Stupids for Just Us in Foul-Asstine and its supporters see a Jewish conspiracy in every aspect of life, political and otherwise. And you then wonder why we rightfully dub you anti-Semitic?
After the last couple of weeks, I don’t think anyone is surprised that she is stepping down. I think she learned an important lesson, unfortunately this will probably be a thorn to any future political aspirations.