ASUC Senate

In 2022, UC Berkeley received almost 3,000 information and record requests through the California Public Records Act, or CPRA. On April 26, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit alleging that campus had failed to fulfill its legal responsibilities to make its records “promptly available” for public review.

The conversation regarding the preservation or removal of political parties strays away from the actual issue at hand: the lack of accessibility in and transparency of the ASUC. 

ASUC senators passed resolutions and appointed officers during the weekly senate meeting Wednesday.

ASUC President Chaka Tellem issued a formal presidential veto — the first since 2016 — of Senate Resolution, or SR, 22/23-057 Saturday night. The resolution, passed by more than two-thirds of the ASUC Senate on Wednesday, bans political parties and coalitions from participating in future ASUC elections.

ASUC senators discussed Senate Resolution 22/23-057, moving beyond partisan politics in the ASUC during the weekly senate meeting Wednesday.

Despite recent conversations surrounding the merits of political parties within the ASUC, ElevateCal secured two major positions within the ASUC executive slate at Friday’s tabulation ceremony. 

The results fpr the 2023 ASUC Senate elections were announced at 6 p.m. Friday during a tabulation ceremony held in Dwinelle Hall. With remarkable turnout, 46 candidates competed for the 20 available senate seats, posing a significant challenge to all contenders. Of these, an overwhelming 32 ran as independents, while 10 ran with ElevateCal and four ran with the Progressives at Cal party. 

Rashno Razmkhah, a junior transfer student majoring in sociology, is running for ASUC Senate with the top endorsement from the Transfer Student Caucus. This semester, she has served as Chief of Staff intern to ASUC Senator Yasamin Hatefi.

Thin Rati Oo is running independently for her second term on the ASUC Senate on community-based platforms of DEI, wellness and belonging. A campus sophomore, Oo majors in public health and anthropology and minors in public policy. 

Campus sophomore José Massuh is running independently for ASUC Senate on platforms dedicated to Latine representation, Greek life representation and sexual violence and sexual harrassment, or SVSH, prevention and ASUC honesty.