UCR graduate students who want more affordable access to the Student Recreation Center (SRC) over summer are pushing for a decrease in the $80 summer membership fee.
President of UCR’s Graduate Student Association, Shawn Ragan, introduced their request, which applies only to graduate students, during the ASUCR senate meeting held Wednesday, Nov. 8.
Lowering the SRC’s summer fee — the membership...
The main focus of ASUCR’s fourth senate meeting, which began promptly at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, was to vote on the appointment of justice nominee, Mina Hanin, a fourth-year political science major. Hanin’s term would be for one year only, unlike the traditional two-year term the other justices receive; Hanin would take up the vacant role on...
ASUCR’s Vice President of External Affairs Johnathan Li used the early portion of his officer report during last Wednesday’s State of the Association (SOA) meeting to divulge the UC Riverside Graduate Student Association’s (GSA) decision to leave the UC Student Association (UCSA) and form under a new group, the UC Graduate-Professional Coalition (UCGPC).
The vote, per Li, was made during...
The third ASUCR senate meeting of the quarter promptly began at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19.
Following ex-officio reports, the Finance committee’s allocation of $7,678 overall to campus student organizations was approved 16-0-0. The organizations who received these fundings included, but were not limited to the Badminton Club, Film Society and Women’s Water Polo.
During senate reports, CNAS Senator...
ASUCR conducted their second meeting of the 2017-2018 academic year on Wednesday night, Oct. 11 beginning at 6:30 pm.
To start the meeting, ASUCR president Aram Ayra presented Peter Haddad, Starla Carrillo and Rume Diamreyan as the three new nominees to serve as justices, while explaining that the fourth spot will remain temporarily vacant. The senate went on to...
ASUCR’s first state of the association meeting of fall quarter convened in the senate chambers on Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 6:30 p.m.
After roll call, 2017-18’s ASUCR senators were sworn in, officially beginning their tenure as undergraduate representatives of UCR.
Shortly after, the agenda was approved and officer reports were delivered. Staffs for the Vice President of External Affairs,...
Compiled by: Evan Ismail, SSW and Andreas Rauch, SSW
Several events occurred at a local, national and global stage throughout the 2016-17 school year that impacted the UCR community. Below we highlight and recap a few of the major events the News section’s Year in Review.
October 2017: Former U.S. Undersecretary of Education comes to campus
Ted Mitchell, now-former U.S. undersecretary of...
The sixth and final ASUCR senate meeting of spring quarter convened at approximately 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31 in the senate chambers. The meeting was largely devoted to a series of bylaw amendments proposed by senators, most of which passed with little resistance.
After motioning to move two Green Campus Action Plan (GCAP) funding requests to the top of...
The ASUCR senate’s fourth general meeting of the quarter convened in the senate chambers shortly after 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17. The bulk of the brief meeting was given over to fourth-year political science, law and society major and former CHASS senator Summer Shafer, who presented a series of updates on the gender studies requirement currently making its...
Spring quarter’s second ASUCR state of the association meeting was held on Wednesday, May 12 in the senate chambers. The meeting, which commenced at 6:10 p.m., focused predominantly on Dining Services’ plans regarding the establishment of new eateries in the HUB, a change that is projected to occur over the summer.
After a few brief announcements, UCR Dining Services...