On Wednesday, March 30, the ASUCR director debates occurred with seven of the nine candidates presenting their platforms to a crowd of 40 people. Cheers occurred throughout the hourlong debate, with Side, Orange Party and independent campaigners displaying support for their respective candidates. This debate was organized by the ASUCR elections committee and moderated by Highlander Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Christal...
Several students spoke at the public forum section of the ASUCR senate meeting to express their concerns with recent actions taken by ASUCR in regards to making the controversial campaigning technique laptopping legal as well as passing a resolution last week clarifying their roles and requesting corrections from this publication in regards to the elections controversy last spring. Polling...
On Wednesday, March 2, 2016, the ASUCR senate met to discuss amending the Highlander Union Building (HUB) Expansion Referendum and the removal of the interim Vice President of External Affairs.
Vice President of Finance Shafi Karim introduced an amended version of the 2001 Highlander Union Building Expansion Referendum in order to give the HUB the option to allocate funding from...
Last week’s ASUCR senate meeting saw the passage of a “Resolution in Support of Upholding Due Process, Justice and Separation of Powers in the ASUCR.” This resolution is intended to clarify the events of last year’s ASUCR elections controversies and to absolve the censures and removals made by the prior senate.
Last year’s senate attempted a censure of then-President Nafi...
The ASUCR senate convened last Wednesday in the senate chambers to pass a resolution for nutritional labeling of HUB foods as well as a resolution to allow open-source textbooks. Also during the meeting, a justice from the ASUCR judicial council read a majority opinion that ASUCR acted unconstitutionally when it appointed an interim vice president of external affairs.
On Jan....
At last week’s senate meeting, amendments were made to the standing ASUCR election bylaws. Major changes were made to remove the ban on laptopping in addition to beginning exclusive voting at polling sites, limiting campaign spending and diffusing power from the elections director to the committee.
Elections Director Melina Reyes announced that the elections committee met for the first...
ASUCR convened on Wednesday, Jan. 13 to address the passage of ASUCR Wellness Resolution No. 3, the conflict that took place between a student and a visiting demonstrator on Monday Jan. 11 and the discussion of a resolution condemning United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the deportation raids that were carried out in early January.
ASUCR unanimously passed...
This week’s ASUCR senate meeting saw the appointment of Melina Reyes as the new ASUCR elections director for the 2015-2016 school year.
Mahera Khan, a fourth-year sociology major, was also selected as the first director of transfer and nontraditional students for the first time in ASUCR history. This position was created after the student body voted to include the position...
In a letter addressed to ASUCR executive cabinet officials (ECAB) on Oct.19, 2015, UCR Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox provided instruction for the student government to transfer oversight of ASUCR’s executive director from ECAB to the vice chancellor of student affairs. The letter raised concern amongst the organization, as this change will allow campus administration to have direct oversight over...
The ASUCR senate convened last Wednesday November 18, 2015, to discuss a variety of topics, among them the presentation of the Student Advocacy, Governance and Engagement (SAGE) opt-out fee.
University of California Student Association (UCSA) president and fourth-year peace and conflict studies major at UC Berkeley, Kevin Sabo, and communications director, Anaïs LaVoie, flew in from Northern California to present...