ASUC Senate considers changes to bylaws

In an effort to improve the overall operation of the ASUC, a senate committee will begin to investigate potential changes to consolidate and restructure the ASUC bylaws and constitution. At the senate meeting Wednesday evening, co-chairs of the senate standing committee on Constitutional and Procedural Review, CalSERVE senator Nolan Pack Read More…

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ASUC report card

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My grades are in for this year’s ASUC fall report card. As ASUC terms normally go, the fall semester did have its share of blunders, but those mistakes are more due to a structural weakness in the ASUC than the shortcomings of any one elected official. This report card is Read More…

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Measure B.S.

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Senate Bill 64 — co-authored by CalSERVE Senator Nolan Pack and passed last Wednesday night by the ASUC Senate — does the right thing in opposing Measure S on November’s ballot. The bill protects the men and women you walk by on your way to class every day. It protects Read More…

The ASUC convenes on August 29. The most recent meeting featured partisan conflict over the allocation of funds to student groups on campus.

ASUC meeting devolves into partisan conflict

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…

Nolan Pack from the ASUC speaks to a crowd at the sit-lie protest at Berkeley City Hall.

City officials and residents demonstrate against civil sidewalks measure

Members of the Berkeley community gathered at Berkeley City Hall Monday to protest a recommendation that would place a measure that prohibits sitting on the city’s sidewalks on the November ballot. The demonstration against the Civil Sidewalks Ballot Measure, which could make sitting on sidewalks in commercial districts between 7 Read More…