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The newly named Defend Affirmative Action Party/Fighting for Immigrant Rights and Equality, or DAAP/FIRE, announced campus sophomore Stephanie Gutierrez as its candidate for president in the 2019 ASUC elections Saturday.
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Would-be college students get stuck in a flawed system that disallows them the opportunities they would have if they came from a place of privilege.
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The night’s results mark a major victory for Student Action, which won all the executive seats it campaigned for, and a tough loss for CalSERVE, with only party member Nuha Khalfay managing to secure a spot in the executive office.
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After more than a month of campaigning on many different platforms — ranging from striking up conversation on Sproul Plaza to mass-messaging students on Facebook — ASUC candidates pulled out all the stops this week in a last-minute effort to vie for students’ votes.
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Some former ASUC members have become politicians, including state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who served as the academic affairs vice president and a leader in the anti-apartheid movement on campus during her time as a UC Berkeley student.
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Bold. That’s what students should want an ASUC president to be, and that’s what they’ll get from CalSERVE’s Juniperangelica Cordova.
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There’s only one clear choice for student advocate: Sophie Bandarkar.
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This year, CalSERVE, Student Action and Defend Affirmative Action Party, or DAAP, are slating candidates on the ASUC voting ballots who will run alongside an increasing number of independent candidates.
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Gutierrez, who is endorsed by the Defend Affirmative Action Party is running for ASUC president and Senate on a platform of social justice and equality for immigrants, people of color, women and all marginalized groups.
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Sophie Bandarkar and Casey Leeds are both running for student advocate in the spring ASUC elections to be the conduit between students and campus-related disputes — but they vary on the issues they prioritize.
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