David Douglass

Veerappan, who hails from the suburbs of Las Vegas, chooses to embrace the fun side of his campaign, running once again as an independent candidate under the nickname his roommate gave him last year.

Approximately 250 students and community members gathered for The Daily Californian’s annual ASUC Candidates Forum on Friday to listen to this year’s executive candidates discuss the goals they hope to accomplish if elected.

California voters will not decide in the 2014 election whether race, gender, and ethnicity ought to be considered in college admissions, after lawmakers postponed deliberation on a bill that intends to amend the state constitution.

The question of whether affirmative action policies should be implemented once again by the University of California was hotly debated between ASUC Senator Solomon Nwoche and ASUC presidential hopeful David Douglass in front of approximately 50 audience members at Moffitt library Friday evening.

The newly-formed BearFeed.org party announced Pierre Bourbonnais as its satirical presidential candidate for this year’s ASUC elections Wednesday night.

After winning only one executive seat in the ASUC last year, the Student Action party announced its presidential candidate and 15 senate candidates for the upcoming ASUC general elections.

For the second straight year, UC Berkeley senior David Douglass announced his candidacy for ASUC president on Thursday, with affirmative action, immigration reform, and global warming driving his campaign.

On Thursday, UC President Janet Napolitano will set foot on the UC Berkeley campus, her tenth and final stop of a UC campus listening tour that began more than four months ago.

After receiving specific information regarding the allocation of UC President Janet Napolitano’s $5 million initiative to aid undocumented students, campus administrators are developing a plan to divide up funds between programs and financial aid for undocumented undergraduates by the end of February 2014.

The cries of protesters at the November meeting of the UC Regents escalated to screams Tuesday as students and activists demanded that Janet Napolitano step down from her position as UC president.