About 40 members of the UC Berkeley community gathered at Eshleman Library Tuesday evening to hear a debate on Proposition 30, a ballot measure which will determine whether the university is dealt a series of budget cuts.
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Support for Proposition 30, which will determine whether the UC is dealt a series of budget cuts, has fallen just short of a majority, according to polling data released Tuesday from the California Business Roundtable. Read More…
Voter support for Proposition 30 — which could determine whether University of California students are dealt a 20 percent tuition hike in January — has fallen below 50 percent for the first time, according to a survey released Wednesday. Read More…
A report published by the UC Berkeley School of Law Policy Advocacy Clinic found that the city’s controversial ballot Measure S would fail to increase economic activity or access to services for homeless people, as some advocates have claimed. Read More…
Congresswoman Barbara Lee appeared at UC Berkeley last Thursday for a nonpartisan town hall style meeting for students to discuss the prominent issues in the upcoming election. Read More…
In 2008, Councilmember Jesse Arreguin was elected to serve on the Berkeley City Council, making him both the youngest and the first Latino council member among his predominantly white peers. Read More…
Over the course of an almost six-month-long voter registration campaign, the ASUC Vote Coalition registered more than 8,000 students to vote, officials announced Wednesday — thousands fewer than their original goal. As of Wednesday, the nonpartisan coalition housed in the ASUC Office of the External Affairs Vice President had registered Read More…
On the surface, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and opponent Marilyn Singleton are awfully similar. Both are black women born in a now antiquated United States where casual racism and segregation were pervasive. Singleton still remembers marching down to Woolworth’s, a now defunct retail firm that featured segregated lunch counters. Segregation Read More…
A formal complaint lodged last week with the city’s Fair Campaign Practices Commission claims that a flyer mailed out to voters in support of a Berkeley ballot measure contains false endorsements. Read More…
Gov. Jerry Brown discussed the state of higher education in California last week with representatives from student newspapers across the UC system. He commented on the state’s decreasing financial investment in higher education and emphasized the importance of passing Prop. 30 this November. Read More…
