Safeena Mecklai

Measure S passed early Wednesday morning with 64.16 percent of votes in favor, reinforcing the boundaries of a majority student-aged district that spans much of the Southside area.

Berkeley voters will decide the fate of highly contested district lines in Tuesday’s election.

With no student running for the seat, the choice for the city councilmember of District 7 falls between incumbent Kriss Worthington and challenger Sean Barry, a recent UC Berkeley alumnus.

With fewer than 24 hours remaining, no UC Berkeley student has filed candidacy for City Council after years of lobbying to create a student supermajority district.

As the newly elected ASUC executive officers prepare to enter their positions, the five outgoing officers reflect on their terms and find they did not approach their positions entirely in the way they outlined in their campaign platforms.

National legislators gathered with student representatives from UC Berkeley and other California public universities in Washington D.C. last Thursday to inaugurate the California Public Higher Education Caucus.

When hiring for top academic positions, university officials must balance finding talent that reflects the academic quality of the UC system, while also compensating administrators with more limited salaries that reflect the reality of what a public university can pay.

A coalition of over 420 student representatives from across the UC system, including about 35 UC Berkeley students, met with senators and assemblymembers at the state capitol on Monday, lobbying about issues important to UC students.

Three candidates are running for the position of external affairs vice president in this year’s ASUC elections with goals of bringing students together and advocating for the student body.

The passage of the bill reflects the Senate’s support of a soda-tax on the city’s ballot in November while promoting health education on campus through ongoing conversations with the university. The proposed soda tax, which the bill recommends that the campus implement, would tax sugar-sweetened beverage distributors, theoretically increasing the price of soda on campus.