On April 15, members from the political parties ABC: A Better Choice and SIDE held a candidate endorsement hearing to drum up support from individual students and student organizations in the galley. ASUCR senator Tin Dinh served as master of ceremonies for the event and set the ground rules for how the information session and Q-and-A portion would be...
Deck: With the ASUCR elections right around the corner, UCR students will decide the fate of three referendum items surrounding ASUCR, campus diversity and the environment.
Last Wednesday, senators unanimously voted in favor of placing the Green Campus Action Plan (GCAP), Highlander Empowerment Student Services and the ASUCR fee referendums on the 2014 elections ballot during their meeting on Wednesday,...
A fake ASUCR political party entitled, “My Side Choice,” received backlash during the first senate meeting of spring quarter when Outreach Director Mina Kato condemned the Facebook group for mocking the upcoming 2014-15 ASUCR elections. Vice President of External Affairs Kareem Aref said that President Sai Patadia, CALPIRG Campus Organizer Mick Del Rosario and himself played a role in...
Senators unanimously passed a bylaw chapter (XXVI) to establish a 12-member diversity council under the oversight of ASUCR to advance UCR’s Principles of Community — guiding campus principles that seek to create a safe and respectful environment that nurture intellectual and personal growth of UCR students. Holding their last meeting of winter quarter, senators also debated over a resolution...
Senators approved two internal allocations: $17,868.50 for HUB renovation, which seeks to create a separate and much larger lobby area for the ASUCR front desk and waiting area; and $22,950 in Green Campus Action Plan (GCAP) funding for the expansion of two solar benches, which is being pulled from the senate reserve funds.
Vice President of Finance Janice Tang explained that...
BCOE Senator Sean Fahmian criticized CHASS Senator Nafi Karim for failing to deliver sufficient snacks to students during finals week of last quarter — as part of the snack wagon initiative — revealing early tensions between the two presidential candidates in the 2014-15 elections season.
During the public forum period, Leo Torres, a fourth-year bioengineering major and the president of...
Watch the Highlander's livestream of ASUCR's presidential debates on our YouTube page at youtube.com/ucrchannelh:
The Highlander's managing editor Colin Markovich will be moderating the event, asking candidates questions about their goals should they be elected.
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ASUCR senators unanimously passed a resolution to promote awareness and education of mental health services by collaborating with UCR’s Student Wellness Partners and Active Minds.
Authored by Vice President of External Affairs Kareem Aref and UCR students Morgan Nixon and Monika Vermani, the resolution is being prompted by incidents such as at UC Berkeley, where a third-year undergraduate, Maliq Nixon,...
During a five-hour-long Senate meeting in UCR’s Tartan and Tweed Room on Feb. 12, over 10 student speakers debated over a senate resolution entitled, “Divestment from Companies that Profit from Apartheid,” which urges the UC to divest its asset holdings from various companies that reinforce the alleged apartheid system and military occupation in Israel’s Palestinian territories.
Divestment supporters, such as...
On Jan. 29, 2014, ASUCR Elections Director Chris Sanchez announced that he will ban the political party name CR from being used in the upcoming 2013-2014 elections due to its phonetic similarities to UC Riverside’s own name. Since its nascent rise in 2012-13, CR has dominated the past elections with its members wielding control of more than three-fourths of...