ASUC Student Union Board of Directors

A proposal to temporarily designate space in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union for the Latinx Resource Center was voted down by the ASUC Student Union Board of Directors at their Jan. 15 meeting.

The ASUC Senate met Wednesday to discuss the future of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union and Eshleman Hall and vote on several bills regarding resources for students.

The La Cocina's Cantina restaurants in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union will not be reopening in the fall.

Pinky and Red’s, a Black-owned restaurant in UC Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, is in financial trouble due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Described as a “strong leader” and “fierce advocate,” Bahar Navab began her appointment as UC Berkeley’s associate dean of students and executive director of the ASUC Student Union on May 1.

At the last board meeting in April, motions were passed to place the GA’s funds into separate accounts from the ASUC's and reinstate GA executives as signatories on the ASUC account until the GA has its own accounts. Ansel’s demand occurred less than two weeks after the GA’s secession from the ASUC, a culmination of tensions that have existed since the GA’s founding in the 1960s.

The ASUC Senate unanimously passed a resolution at its meeting Wednesday to temporarily move the bridges Multicultural Resource Center and the Queer Alliance Resource Center to the fourth floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union and provide them priority reservations on the fifth floor.

A Bank of the West branch will open on the first floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building next year as part of a 10-year contract between the bank and UC Berkeley that will generate more than $17 million for the campus.

The ASUC Student Union Board of Directors agreed to define standards for working conditions for future Student Union employees at a Wednesday meeting in response to demands from current campus contract workers.

At its penultimate meeting of the semester Wednesday, the ASUC Senate was updated on the progress made in negotiations to install relaxation centers on campus.