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.
On Wednesday night, Berkeley students held a town hall meeting about democratically electing the next chancellor.
ASUC President Connor Landgraf’s decision to use executive order on two referenda for this semester’s student ballot sparked controversy among ASUC Senators. Read More…
Berkeley is one of the most distinguished, progressive and diverse communities in the world. This is a legacy of which we residents are very proud: Not only is our city home to what is arguably the best public university in the world, we have a defining history of diversity, activism Read More…
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…
Almost exactly one year later, a walkout planned for Thursday on campus hopes to rekindle the spirit of 2011′s Occupy Cal protest. Read More…
The ASUC is often criticized for failing to serve the students it exists to represent. Yet few times in recent memory has UC Berkeley’s student government taken action that so clearly delegitimizes the democratic ideals it purports to exemplify. On Wednesday evening, the ASUC Senate voted to uphold an executive Read More…
Year after year, semester after semester, UC Berkeley students join together with their fellow Californians to challenge budget cuts and tuition increases and all of the factors they see as an erosion of public higher education in the state. On Thursday, they are again expected to converge on campus. But Read More…
ASUC Judicial Council Chair Erica Furer reaffirmed in an email Friday that the scheduled hearing on alleged campaign violations from The Daily Californian’s fee referendum would not be held, but altered the reason behind the cancelled proceedings. Furer said in a previous email on Thursday that the hearing on alleged Read More…
ASUC Senators and executives — especially President Vishalli Loomba — should devote at least one of the remaining Senate meetings to familiarizing themselves with the ASUC constitution. At Wednesday night’s meeting on Loomba’s executive order invalidating the V.O.I.C.E initiative, it became abundantly clear that one of the following is true: Read More…
