ASUC Student Union Board

The ASUC Senate received an update on UC Berkeley's financial situation and continued to table a bill on community engagement at its meeting Wednesday.

The editorial board has long questioned the purpose of the EVP role in the ASUC. But when Maureen Simmons began her campaign for the position with CalSERVE, she breathed life into the role in a way that past EVPs have continuously failed to do.

More than 100 members and supporters of the Queer Alliance Resource Center, or QARC, and bridges Multicultural Resource Center blocked Sather Gate for several hours early Friday afternoon as part of their latest protest to be relocated to different club space on campus.

After demands earlier in the month that they be relocated from their current spaces in the Eshleman Hall basement, members of the Queer Alliance and Resource Center, or QARC, and bridges Multicultural Resource Center rejected three alternative location options offered by the ASUC Student Union Board at an emergency meeting held Thursday.

On Wednesday, students from the Queer Alliance and Resource Center, or QARC, and bridges Multicultural Resource Center gathered at the office of the dean of students and demanded the organizations be relocated from their current locations in the Eshleman Hall basement.

With the contract between the University of California and the postdoctoral researchers’ union set to expire in two weeks, postdocs at seven UC campuses delivered to their respective chancellors more than 3,000 signatures, calling for the university to adopt their terms in the next contract.

Several years before the company Chartwells was selected to operate restaurants in the newly renovated Lower Sproul, it faced backlash from food service workers at Northeastern University for an array of alleged mistreatment.

With the majority of construction complete, the ASUC Student Union and the UC Berkeley Facilities Services are finishing renovations on the campus’ new Lower Sproul Plaza.