Fund the UC

The University of California Student Association, or UCSA, elected its new executive board last week, including two UC Berkeley students in high-ranking positions.

CalSERVE candidate Varsha Sarveshwar is running unopposed for External Affairs Vice President, or EAVP, in the upcoming 2019 ASUC elections, campaigning on a platform to make student voices heard in “spaces of power” that make policy decisions affecting the campus community.

Organized in four separate Gig Car Share cars, 13 UC Berkeley students traveled to Sacramento early Tuesday morning to continue lobbying for increased state funding for the UC system.

UC Berkeley sophomore Nick Araujo announced his independent, Latinx-community-endorsed candidacy for the ASUC Senate on Sunday evening.

The University of California Student Association elected its 2015-16 executive officers Friday, including a UC Berkeley student to serve as the association's president.

At its annual conference this weekend, the University of California Student Association, a coalition of UC student leaders, selected UConsent as its newest campaign to support student survivors of sexual assault.

The incessant debate over funding for public education in California over the past few years indicates that an adequate solution to the quandary posed by state budget cuts remains elusive. But a student coalition called Fund the UC has put its finger on a practical solution that hasn’t received enough serious consideration from public officials: reforming Proposition 13.

Expecting to collect nearly 3,000 signed postcards by March demanding Gov. Jerry Brown support property tax reform, the campus chapter of Fund the UC launched its letter campaign Tuesday night with packets of postcards ready to hand out on Sproul Plaza.