Nolan Pack

About 35 students gathered in the Unit 1 APR to provide feedback that will be used by the ASUC to generate a report on how the student government can better serve its student body.

About 45 people gathered on Sproul Plaza’s Mario Savio steps at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in a rally that called on the UC to divest from the top 200 fossil fuel companies worldwide.

A bill to terminate the operation of the Cal Lodge, an ASUC-owned property in Lake Tahoe that has faced enormous financial losses over the past seven years was introduced to the ASUC Senate Oct. 23.

The ASUC Senate narrowly avoided its own government shutdown at its meeting Wednesday night, when the senate approved the appointment of junior Kevin Sabo as attorney general.

After six years, Nancy Skinner will step down from her position on the California State Assembly, leaving at least six candidates lined up to take her place.

The ASUC Senate’s University and External Affairs Committee approved a bill at its meeting Monday that opposes the construction of Keystone XL, an extension of the Keystone Pipeline, which is now pending approval of the entire senate.

As senators who served with Pack while he was an ASUC senator, we would have to agree with his statements about himself. Pack was one of the most polarizing figures while he served as a senator.

At its meeting Wednesday, the ASUC senate, unanimously passed a bill stating that the senate will express no confidence in incoming UC President Janet Napolitano if she does not carry out a list of nine demands by a deadline set by the senate.

After extensive discussion Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council decided to postpone a historic vote on the ASUC-backed redistricting map that would create a student-majority district for the first time in Berkeley.