Briefs were filed Tuesday with the ASUC Judicial Council detailing arguments and supporting evidence of parties for and against overturning ASUC President Vishalli Loomba’s executive order that invalidated The Daily Californian’s fee initiative from the 2012 election ballot. The council will hear arguments at a Wednesday night hearing, which will be held Read More…
Both fee initiatives on this year’s ASUC election ballot may be invalid. On Saturday, the ASUC Judicial Council voted to hold hearings that call the fate of the V.O.I.C.E. and Class Pass referendums into question. The council will hold one hearing to decide whether ASUC President Vishalli Loomba’s executive order voiding The Read More…
The ASUC attorney general approved language for an initiative that would appear on the 2013 election ballot clarifying the ASUC president’s ability to issue an executive order. The ballot initiative — proposed by Philippe Marchand, former assembly affairs vice president of the Graduate Assembly — comes in the wake of ASUC President Read More…
Charges have been filed against the ASUC and ASUC President Vishalli Loomba for the executive order Loomba issued voiding the Daily Californian’s V.O.I.C.E. initiative. On Friday, Solicitor General Erin Delaney and former Attorney General Kevin Gibson submitted a charge sheet to the Judicial Council on behalf of Lynn Yu, campaign manager Read More…
The campaign manager for The Daily Californian’s fee initiative said Thursday that she will file charges against the executive order issued recently by ASUC President Vishalli Loomba that invalidated the initiative. After meeting with former ASUC attorney general Kevin Gibson — who previously filed charges against former ASUC president Noah Read More…
The ASUC Senate voted at its Wednesday meeting to uphold an executive order issued by ASUC President Vishalli Loomba invalidating an initiative on the 2012 ASUC general election ballot that asks students to support The Daily Californian. At the peak of the meeting, more than 80 students — most of Read More…
ASUC President Vishalli Loomba issued an executive order early Wednesday morning invalidating an initiative on the 2012 ASUC general election ballot that asks students to support The Daily Californian. Loomba’s order comes just as the second of three voting days for the election begins. In the order, she cites a Read More…
Following a national trend of college newspapers turning to student fee referendums to ease tight budgets, The Daily Californian has campaigned for a student fee to support the newspaper’s print operations and expand its online presence. College newspapers across the country have requested student fees to support their operations — Read More…
Charges were filed against The Daily Californian’s fee referendum campaign Sunday, two days before students will begin voting in the 2012 ASUC general election. CalTV Director of Business, Advertising and Marketing Elizabeth Kopaskie filed a formal charge sheet against the Daily Cal’s V.O.I.C.E. Initiative. The charges cite multiple alleged campaign Read More…
UC Berkeley students will vote this April during the 2012 ASUC general election on whether to approve a student fee to support The Daily Californian. The ASUC Senate voted Wednesday night to put the V.O.I.C.E. Initiative before students asking whether they support a $2 per semester student fee to help Read More…
