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Cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, advocates and graduate students hosted a “COLA party” on Sproul Plaza on March 3, ending in a meeting between student organizers and UC Berkeley administration.
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UC Berkeley’s Graduate Assembly members will vote on whether or not to pass a resolution to formally add an “independence proposition” to the 2020 ballot.
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The The UC Berkeley Student Advocate’s Office and Basic Needs Center, along with others, recently established an emergency rental assistance program.
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Loss of instructional time due to power outages this semester has negatively impacted students and instructors, prompting UC Berkeley to seek solutions by creating the Instructional Resilience Task Force.
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UC Berkeley School of Public Health students and workers have signed a petition supporting tuition remission, health insurance benefits for online GSIs.
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UC Berkeley alumnus Ben Gould is running for Berkeley City Council’s District 4 seat, against incumbent Councilmember Kate Harrison.
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The Graduate Assembly had a busy night Thursday. After unanimously voting to secede from the ASUC, it elected its executive officers for the 2018-19 year.
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The Graduate Assembly, or GA, voted unanimously to approve a resolution that would establish a independent governing body for graduate students, separate from the ASUC, during a special meeting Thursday.
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Graduate students want out. They want out of a student government system centered around the undergraduate experience. They want out of an ASUC that has proved difficult to work with and slow to address their financial and academic concerns. They want out now.
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Berkeley’s graduate students have long been underrepresented — pushed away from student government for decades, denied adequate financial resources and structured to rely on the ASUC. After a history of contentious relations spanning back to the 1960s, the Graduate Assembly, or the GA, is considering separating from the ASUC.
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