The ASUC has for decades embodied real-world politics more than many student governments on other campuses. This emulation, though, carries with it the best and worst of partisan factionalism. The senate made the right decision in allowing voters to cast their ballots over AirBears this year. However, concerns that the Read More…
The ASUC Senate could face a $50,000 deficit at the ending of the year, according to most recent projections — a funding gap that might force the student government to freeze funding for student groups in the future.
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The ASUC Senate will wrap up the semester at its final meeting Wednesday, with several bills concerning topics that will arise next year. The senate is expected to vote on stipends for the ASUC Elections Council and the ASUC executive officers, as well as other officials within the student government. Read More…
Students at UC Berkeley share a passion and desire for advancing justice and making wrongs right. Issues like budget cuts often draw attention from the campus community, and the student government plays an important role in expanding support. But the ASUC Senate’s Feb. 7 bill — which reiterated support for Read More…
At the ASUC Senate’s thirteenth week of session, a bill in support of negotiations with BART for student subsidies will be discussed, along with the reorganization of the ASUC Auxiliary’s administration and a ballot fee referendum to support The Daily Californian. According to a senate bill, BART is open to negotiating Read More…
While America’s biggest financial institutions certainly played their part in the economic recession that persists today, it’s hard to exact meaningful punishments on them. Unethical behavior, after all, isn’t necessarily illegal behavior. Right on the heels of Berkeley City Council’s Jan. 31 decision to consider alternatives to banking with Wells Read More…
ASUC Senators and executives — especially President Vishalli Loomba — should devote at least one of the remaining Senate meetings to familiarizing themselves with the ASUC constitution. At Wednesday night’s meeting on Loomba’s executive order invalidating the V.O.I.C.E initiative, it became abundantly clear that one of the following is true: Read More…
The ASUC Senate weighed in on the city of Berkeley’s controversial civil sidewalks ballot measure Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to oppose the measure.
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Wednesday’s ASUC Senate meeting dissolved into a discussion of party divisions and deficient communication after debate on a standard finance bill sparked controversy among senators. SB 19 planned to allot funds from the Contingency Fund — a procedure the ASUC Senate routinely goes through — to the campus group Volunteers Read More…
At Wednesday’s ASUC Senate meeting, Executive Director of the UC Student Association Matt Haney will make a guest announcement, and several new bills will be introduced. Many of the bills move to allocate funds to student groups and events. The bills will be passed on to senate committees that will discuss Read More…
