ASUC President Connor Landgraf issues executive order to place referendums on ballot
Connor Landgraf is the ASUC President.
ASUC President Connor Landgraf issued two executive orders to place referenda on the 2013 ASUC ballot, Sunday.
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Resuscitate your student government
By supporting independent candidates, SQUELCH! helps hold the ASUC accountable
SQUELCH! has become the ASUC’s alarm clock that doesn’t have a snooze button and can’t be turned off. It has become the electric shock that will resuscitate a student government that was once rivaled by no other. It has taken the road less traveled, but it needs your help as Read More…
Landgraf’s overreach
CAMPUS ISSUES: ASUC President Connor Landgraf’s executive orders to put two referendums on the election ballot could have been avoided.
ASUC President Connor Landgraf has muddled the proper process of this year’s election. Because he tardily submitted bills to the ASUC Senate to put two referendums before student voters, the senate could not consider the measures until after its constitutional deadline to finalize the election ballot. Accordingly, Landgraf issued executive Read More…
Class Pass may not be placed on spring ballot after possible bylaw violation
UC Berkeley students face the prospect of losing their bus passes next year due to a failure to submit the necessary referendum for the spring 2013 ballot.
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The AC Transit bully
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AC Transit must descend from its throne of supposed magnanimity and give UC Berkeley students the deal they deserve. Because the AC Transit Class Pass will most likely reappear on the spring 2013 ASUC ballot, ASUC President Connor Landgraf should continue his efforts in meeting and negotiating with the organization Read More…
AC Transit and transparency in the ASUC
Increased transparency and accountability rest at the core of ASUC policy and actions. With last semester’s student unification against fee hikes, unsurprisingly, the ASUC reaffirmed its commitment to fiscal accountability. At ASUC Senate finance committee meetings, student groups often request $3 notebooks as senators debate the values of fiscal responsibility, even if Read More…
Busing the referendum
CAMPUS ISSUES: We are glad the ASUC Judicial Council invalidated the Class Pass referendum but troubled by inaccuracies on the ballot.
Democracy is an ideal that has guided the United States for more than two centuries. Even at the student government level, the ballot should be sacrosanct, which is what makes problems surrounding the ASUC Class Pass referendum so disconcerting. The referendum, which would have extended the campus’s agreement with AC Read More…
2012 ASUC election endorsements
Taking a Stand
Click here to read the Senior Editorial Board’s full endorsements. In the past academic year, UC Berkeley students have met history head-on, continually shouting for our rights and ideals — whatever those may be. Instances including the Berkeley College Republicans’ intentionally racist bake sale, police violence at Occupy Cal, Louis Read More…
Letter: Students should vote for Class Pass referendum
While I agree with ASUC Senator Noah Ickowitz’s statement encouraging the importance of ridership data to definitively and objectively decide whether a renewal of the Class Pass referendum provides an overall benefit rather than cost to our student body, this necessity for hard fact is precisely why the referendum needs Read More…
ASUC Judicial Council disqualifies Class Pass
The ASUC Judicial Council unanimously ruled Thursday to disqualify the Class Pass referendum from the ASUC 2012 general election ballot. Graduate Assembly President Bahar Navab and ASUC President Vishalli Loomba, as well as SQUELCH! Senator Noah Ickowitz, filed charges against Elections Council chair Pamudh Kariyawasam, requesting the disqualification of the Read More…