Experience the announcement of the 2013 ASUC Election results, as seen from 155 Dwinelle. Read more here.
The results of this year’s ASUC election were tabulated in 155 Dwinelle Thursday evening. CalSERVE won three out of four traditionally partisan ASUC executive seats. CalSERVE candidate Deejay Pepito is elected as the next student body president.
More than 50 protesters gathered at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue Wednesday afternoon before marching to the Tang Center to protest changes in UC Student Health Insurance Plan coverage. Read more here.
This Friday marks about two weeks since the end of one of the most historic ASUC elections in our time at Cal. Finally, our student government leaders are back in class, political opponents are hanging out together at Taco Tuesday and exhausted candidates (including myself) have been rejuvenated by that Read More…
The CalSERVE party’s domination of this year’s ASUC election represents a pivotal moment for UC Berkeley’s student government. For the first time in four years, the next student body president is not from Student Action. For the first time in three years, the next senate does not contain an 11-member Read More…
Being on campus during ASUC elections season can be annoying; that’s well-documented, irrefutable. It can be overeager, glossy-faced candidates in your ears at 8 a.m. pontificating about impossible platforms; unbiased announcements in class encouraging you to vote by voices who just so happen to belong to candidates; acquaintances met at Read More…
The ASUC elections are becoming fairer. Recent indications that the CalSERVE and Student Action parties will not continue an old practice of agreeing not to pursue charges against each other is encouraging, though the tradition should have been eliminated long ago. Still, it is the latest instance of what appears Read More…
The platforms and ideologies that make up any campaign have to be pushed out into the world somehow in order for them to be heard and recognized, which puts a great emphasis on effective marketing techniques. These past few years, social media has been a major tool in getting the Read More…
A presidential feature article printed Monday portrayed DeeJay Pepito — my colleague and an essential part of our senate — as an “aggressive” woman with a mission to propel “minority” groups into the ASUC. I found the article poorly written and contextualized, especially given the amount of times I was Read More…
The ASUC Senate voted to table a bill that called for the ASUC to seek “investment opportunities that strengthen Israeli-Palestinian cooperation” at its meeting Wednesday night. Read More…
