Bills introduced at Wednesday night’s ASUC Senate meeting will include opposition to criminal charges filed against Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protesters, support legislation that funds middle-class students and the endorsement of the creation of a student majority district in the city, among other initiatives. Bills that have already passed through a Read More…
Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday in favor of deferring redistricting in Berkeley until after the November 2012 election, a decision that could eventually result in a student supermajority district. By delaying redistricting, the City Council — which voted 7-2 in favor of the postponement — hopes to place a charter Read More…
Berkeley City Council will meet Tuesday night for its first regular meeting of 2012. The second public hearing for redistricting will be held at Tuesday’s meeting, as well as further discussion of potential locations where city council chambers could be relocated once Old City Hall, at 2134 Martin Luther King Read More…
Community members and city staff met at the North Berkeley Senior Center Wednesday evening to view redistricting plans submitted by fellow Berkeley residents, including proposals from two groups of students with different intentions for student representation in city government. Authors of the six redistricting plans presented their proposals before a Read More…
Imagine Berkeley students having one or two strong voices on the Berkeley City Council. Now, let’s reflect on how we could get that to happen. A student-majority district? Wrong. Redistricting has come to the city of Berkeley — and with it comes many issues. Redistricting is basically the redrawing of Read More…
A redistricting proposal that criticized the proposed student super-majority redistricting plan led by ASUC External Affairs Vice President Joey Freeman was presented to the ASUC Senate Wednesday night.
UC Berkeley student leaders, Berkeley City Councilmember Gordon Wozniak and Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, gathered on the steps of city hall Friday morning to submit a redistricting proposal for the creation of two student super-majority districts. Under overcast skies, ASUC External Affairs Vice President Joey Freeman, ASUC President Vishalli Loomba, Read More…
Fifteen community members attended a town hall Monday night to discuss their questions and concerns regarding redistricting proposals submitted to the city of Berkeley thus far. Community members who were in attendance voiced concerns over the breaking apart of neighborhoods as well as the viability of a student district as Read More…
A UC Berkeley student has not been elected to the Berkeley City Council since 1984, when Nancy Skinner became the first student to ever serve as a council member. After 27 years, students are working to change that with the creation of a student supermajority district. But students are not Read More…
At a meeting Tuesday night hosted by the Berkeley Student District Campaign to discuss plans to create a student super-majority district, attendees vocalized concerns regarding gerrymandering, kicking incumbent council members out of their seats and involving students in city politics as a whole. In an attempt to spark student interest and Read More…
