Wednesday morning, ASUC President Vishalli Loomba made an executive order invalidating the V.O.I.C.E initiative. That night, senators gathered to discuss and vote on her decision. Jeff Capps is the Lead ASUC producer.
It is difficult to believe that nearly a year ago, The Daily Californian staff set out on Sproul Plaza asking students to start paying for a newspaper that had been free since its inception in 1871. At the time, the paper was facing a substantial structural deficit. The potential for Read More…
The ASUC senate voted unanimously Wednesday night in support of an agreement between the ASUC, The Daily Californian and campus that laid out the details of the V.O.I.C.E. Initiative, a referendum to fund the independent student newspaper. Read More…
The ASUC senate will vote Wednesday night on the finalized version of an agreement clarifying the details of the V.O.I.C.E. Initiative, a referendum passed by the student body last spring to fund The Daily Californian. Read More…
There are roughly 36,000 students who attend UC Berkeley, 26,000 of whom are undergraduates and 10,000 of whom are graduate students. Our student government, the ASUC, is made up of five executives and 20 senators. These elected students act as representatives of the entire student body. As a result, decisions Read More…
I remember sitting in the Daily Cal’s conference room during the fall semester of 2008. I was gathered there with my fellow sportswriters for our bi-weekly meeting. At the end of the meeting, the sports editor at the time, Matt, said that he had some bad news to share with Read More…
The lively debate engendered by the student fee referendum on the V.O.I.C.E. Initiative to keep The Daily Californian’s presses rolling raises an interesting question: Why such a fervor over $2 per semester for maintaining an accessible source for relevant news, information and debate of campus issues when this is but Read More…
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. This rings in my head as students head to the polls to vote on the V.O.I.C.E. Initiative, a $2 per semester student service fee that goes towards filling the hole in The Daily Californian’s budget caused by decreasing advertising revenues as Read More…
As publications everywhere struggle to survive, it is understandable that The Daily Californian would seek to obtain new sources of funding, such as the V.O.I.C.E. Initiative. But as representatives of other ASUC-funded publications — the Berkeley Poetry Review and CalTV — we think we speak for an unacknowledged segment of Read More…
This column had four different introductions before I decided on counting them, drinking a glass of chocolate milk and then writing this sentence. And boy am I glad I wrote it. Look at it there in its stunning radiance. Truth is, it’s been a difficult week. Monday was most unpleasant. Read More…
