The new ASUCR senators held a special election on Tuesday May, 22 in order to determine the unfilled CNAS senatorial seat. After all 17 candidates gave two and half minute speeches and responded to questions, a vote decided the top two. Current Executive Vice President Carisha Moore and newcomer Wajeha Mahmoud made it through, and then closed deliberations took...
ASUCR held its weekly meeting last Wednesday, May 23. Here are the highlights:
Acknowledgement of indigenous lands … CHASS senator Grant Nakaoka proposed that a statement be made at every meeting that recognizes and shows respect to the Native American tribes that once lived on the land that UCR was built on. CNAS Senator Matt Shashaty did not...
At a Legislative Review Committee (LRC) meeting Wednesday, May 16, a subcommittee in ASUCR that reviews and edits bills before they are debated on the senate floor, killed a bill that would have reduced ASUCR Executive Cabinet (ECAB) stipends by about 60 percent. CHASS Senator Mariam Alkhalili’s bill would also set the standard stipend for all other officials to...
ASUCR held its weekly meeting last Wednesday, May 16. Here are the highlights:
Budget for next year approved … Vice President of Finance Jose Cortez-Hernandez presented a spreadsheet of the budget plan proposed by the Finance Committee, which was passed unanimously with a vote of 9-0-0. The addition of a “campaign reimbursement” to next year’s ASUCR election was made...
Following the Highlander Empowerment Referendum’s (HESSR) failure to meet the minimum 20 percent voter turnout required to pass increased funding for Costo Hall programs, concerned students met with administrators to express their frustrations with UCR’s handling of ethnic and gender programs.
On Tuesday, May 8 at 3 p.m., about 80 students and staff involved with Costo Hall attended a nearly...
Last Wednesday’s ASUCR meeting happened in the wake of an ASUCR elections season mired by low voter turnout. Here are some highlights:
Keep the 20 percent … In light of the 2018 ASUCR elections where referenda failed because of very low voter turnout, ASUCR Judicial Council Chief Justice Jo Gbujama addressed comments made during last week’s ASUCR meeting...
Written by Mark Bertumen, CW with contributions by Aidan Rutten, CW and Amani Mahmoud, CW
The Highlander Empowerment Student Services Referendum (HESSR) failed to pass in this year’s elections, and around 35 students and staff came to voice their concerns at the ASUCR senate meeting on Wednesday, May 2. Both the over-packed audience and ASUCR senators expressed their frustrations with...
ASUCR’s 2018 elections garnered controversy last week when the turnout rate was drastically overestimated in a programming glitch.
This program, built by BCOE Senator Patrick Le, a fourth-year computer science major, was meant to track how many students had voted, and, in a case of human error, over 20,000 more students were added to the list of students already in the system....
Summer school at a UC could soon be easier to afford. That is at least the hope with the latest resolution to pass through the ASUCR senate, SR-S18-005 (official title: “Resolution in Support of the Campaign to Extend Cal Grant to Summer Session from the Coalition for A Better UC”). Introduced by Vice President of Internal Affairs Semi Cole...
Written by Myles Andrews-Duve and Andreas Rauch
Semi Cole was elected president of the ASUCR for the 2018-19 academic year on Monday in a culmination of a campaign that focused on student engagement, community outreach and improving UCR’s mental health services.
The outcome was a landslide victory, with Cole earning 1,493 votes to runner-up Diana Jekki’s 967. Protest candidate Furry Boi,...