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The ASUC attorney general approved language for an initiative that would appear on the 2013 election ballot clarifying the ASUC president’s ability to issue an executive order. The ballot initiative — proposed by Philippe Marchand, former assembly affairs vice president of the Graduate Assembly — comes in the wake of ASUC President
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Charges have been filed against the ASUC and ASUC President Vishalli Loomba for the executive order Loomba issued voiding the Daily Californian’s V.O.I.C.E. initiative. On Friday, Solicitor General Erin Delaney and former Attorney General Kevin Gibson submitted a charge sheet to the Judicial Council on behalf of Lynn Yu, campaign manager
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ASUC Judicial Council Chair Erica Furer reaffirmed in an email Friday that the scheduled hearing on alleged campaign violations from The Daily Californian’s fee referendum would not be held, but altered the reason behind the cancelled proceedings. Furer said in a previous email on Thursday that the hearing on alleged
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ASUC Senators and executives — especially President Vishalli Loomba — should devote at least one of the remaining Senate meetings to familiarizing themselves with the ASUC constitution. At Wednesday night’s meeting on Loomba’s executive order invalidating the V.O.I.C.E initiative, it became abundantly clear that one of the following is true:
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Wednesday morning, ASUC President Vishalli Loomba made an executive order invalidating the V.O.I.C.E initiative. That night, senators gathered to discuss and vote on her decision. Jeff Capps is the Lead ASUC producer.
The ASUC is often criticized for failing to serve the students it exists to represent. Yet few times in recent memory has UC Berkeley’s student government taken action that so clearly delegitimizes the democratic ideals it purports to exemplify. On Wednesday evening, the ASUC Senate voted to uphold an executive
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The campaign manager for The Daily Californian’s fee initiative said Thursday that she will file charges against the executive order issued recently by ASUC President Vishalli Loomba that invalidated the initiative. After meeting with former ASUC attorney general Kevin Gibson — who previously filed charges against former ASUC president Noah
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The ASUC Senate voted at its Wednesday meeting to uphold an executive order issued by ASUC President Vishalli Loomba invalidating an initiative on the 2012 ASUC general election ballot that asks students to support The Daily Californian. At the peak of the meeting, more than 80 students — most of
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This column had four different introductions before I decided on counting them, drinking a glass of chocolate milk and then writing this sentence. And boy am I glad I wrote it. Look at it there in its stunning radiance. Truth is, it’s been a difficult week. Monday was most unpleasant.
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At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, we met with ASUC President Vishalli Loomba and Graduate Assembly President Bahar Navab regarding an issue that had just come up. Six hours later, Loomba issued an executive order invalidating the V.O.I.C.E. Initiative, a referendum asking students whether or not they approve of a $2 fee
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