Shay Cohen

On May 18, the UC Board of Regents reconvened for its second and third board meetings of the week, alongside a joint meeting from the academic and student affairs committee and finance and capital strategies committee.

Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorates a key moment of Jewish resistance against the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 

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

ASUC senator Mahathi Kandimalla introduced Senate Resolution No. 2022/2023-057 last week in an effort to ban political parties and coalitions from participating in future ASUC elections.

Ayal Meyers, a sophomore studying cognitive science and political science with a minor in public policy, is running for ASUC Senate as an independent candidate on the platforms of campus safety, campus climate and Greek life improvements.

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. 

UC Berkeley junior and political science major Ariel Mizrahi is running for ASUC senator in hopes to improve religious inclusion on campus, based on her experiences as a first generation and Jewish student.

The ASUC Senate voted to indefinitely table SR 22/23-027, which would institutionalize the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism, at their meeting on Wednesday.

When one ASUC senator leaves, another must come to take their place. Sophomore Bridgette Meshkani, though, plans to do more than just be former senator Josh Lee’s replacement.

Antisemitic graffiti reading “No Jew Go Away” was found scrawled on the doors of the MLK Student Union Jan. 24.