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The Berkeley Political Review, or BPR, announced Tuesday that it has terminated ASUC Senator Isabella Chow’s membership after anti-LGBTQ+ statements Chow made at a senate meeting Oct. 31.
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Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Stephen Sutton spoke to the ASUC Senate at its regular Wednesday meeting about developing four strategies to improve student life on campus and fielded questions about the campus’s response to the smoke from the wildfires.
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Before the meeting began, people gathered on Lower Sproul, carrying a banner that read, “Senator Chow Resign Now.” Student Action, the party that Chow ran with, recently cut ties with her over the anti-LGBTQ+ comments she made during the Oct. 31 meeting.
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The Queer Alliance Resource Center, or QARC, at UC Berkeley created a petition calling for the resignation of ASUC Senator Isabella Chow on Monday.
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The one new senate resolution was in support of Maximino Martinez Commons becoming a fully designated transfer student housing facility.
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Chow said she could not support a resolution that stood in solidarity with transgender, intersex, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students because she believes that God created man and woman, and that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
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Per the ASUC governing documents, all ASUC officials — including senators, executives and appointed officials — are required to submit weekly written reports and to deliver regular oral reports.
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A dozen members of the ASUC Intimate Partner Violence Commission gathered at a meeting Wednesday to share strategies for helping survivors of abuse and to discuss outreach efforts on campus and beyond.
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This new advisory board would be independent of UCPD and of the ASUC. The senate also discussed Title IX and heard an announcement from the Berkeley Disaster Team, or BDT, regarding its program.
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Senators also heard from the Office of the External Affairs Vice President’s campus organizing director, Sarah Abdeshahian, about supporting upcoming union strikes.
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