ASUC SENATE MEETING
November 28, 2012
Fourteenth Week
This regular meeting of the ASUC Senate was called to order by Justin Sayarath at 7:06 p.m. in the
Madrone Quorum, MLK Student Union. Mr. Sayarath said he would like to thank Senators for being
flexible and meeting in the Madrone Room instead of their regular meeting place, the Senate Chamber.
Snacks were going around, cookies from Milano. Guests should also feel free to get some.
Mr. Sayarath said they would start out with Special Orders.
SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY
Presentation on CalCentral, by Bernadette Geuy
Bernadette Geuy said she would like to thank them for having her. She knew they wanted to get out of
there early, so she’d try to be quick. She introduced herself and said she was the Product Manager for
CalCentral, a new system they're developing. If Senators saw CalCentral in the past, they've completely
thrown that away. They had been working with a big collaborative group and decided to go with that one
system at the beginning of the semester.
Ms. Geuy said they built CalCentral in about seven weeks. The idea of CalCentral was to personalize,
unify, and give students a better online experience, given the plethora of systems that students use. They
built it as a concept system, and she’d walk them through it so they could see what it was about. In January they'll come out with a minimal, viable product. It will be slightly less than what they see. But they'd
like to get Senators’ feedback on what they have at this time. She’ll come back to them in January and let
them know how to get in and use the system.
Ms. Geuy said one idea of CalCentral is to provide students with a view into their bCal calendar. They
want to load students’ classes in there for them. With their classes in there, they'll get a day’s view
showing classes in the window. They can click through and get to bCal and take them to their calendar.
Parallel with building CalCentral, which is, again, front end, all of the campus systems will slowly be
replaced, including bSpace, for a product called “Canvass.” They'll send out a one-page flier on what
CalCentral is, as well as what Canvass is.
Ms. Geuy said that Canvass is a way to learn the student system. They have tasks and assignments which
will surface from Canvass, the new bSpace, as well as any task they put into their bCal. For example, if
she had an assignment in a class, with an annotated bibliography, if she goes to Canvass and clicks
through, it will give a description of the assignment, tell her she’s already turned it in, and allow her to
resubmit it, and to actually submit it as a Google Doc.
Presentation on CalCentral, by Bernadette Geuy (cont'd)
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On the professor’s side, Ms. Geuy said they have a way to look at all the documents that were submitted,
annotate them, comment on them, grade them, and then look at the next documents. Right now on
bSpace, people have to download documents, break them up, and load them. It's a pain and professors
don't use it, and with most professors, assignments are not done online.
Ms. Geuy said that as they migrate to Canvass from bSpace, they'll see their classes. Canvass is a way for
students to get to their classes. On the right-hand side they can post notes and locations. If they have
things like an incomplete, or a class bill that got posted, or appointments, or signups for office hours,
these are things they'll try and surface so they're not lost in people’s e-mails, and so they're high impact emails, especially for warnings.
Lastly, Ms. Geuy said she would take them to “MyCampus.” Right now it's a concept and they haven't
built it out. It won't be ready by January. They're trying to help people navigate to the different things
students can do on campus. People don't know about things. They built this in a couple of days. One
thing they built out was a “My Finance” page. What they're trying to do was to bring together data from
different systems, such as from students’ CARS bills, as well as from Financial Aid. It will make it a lot
easier to interpret where they send standard financial aid with their bills.
Ms. Geuy said the screen showed CalCentral. She could quickly take them back and show them Canvass
so they could get an idea of that, and what it looks like. It will have a dashboard. In bSpace, students had
to go to each tab to figure out what was going on for the class. But Canvass has a consolidated, aggregated view of everything going on for their classes. She thought they'd find Canvass a whole lot better
than bSpace, although that wasn't too difficult to do. Mr. Sayarath called for any questions.
Mr. Pack said it was great to see things projected on the screen, but asked if there was a way that Senators
could have sessions where maybe some of them, or maybe their constituents, could actually play with the
program themselves. He thought that would give them a much better feel for the layout and how it works
for user friendliness. That would be better than just seeing it projected. Ms. Geuy said they're doing a lot
of user testing and she would send Ms. Rajasekar a flier to distribute on how to get involved. Ms.
Rajasekar has been involved with testing. They'll bring people in to get testing. If they go to CalCentralstaging, they could log on. It may not be stuff that holds data, the stuff on the right of the screen; so that
wouldn't work. But people were welcome to log on.
Ms. Rajasekar said that to give some background, they have been working with a lot of student groups on
campus that are very directly related to using the interface. They've given a lot of feedback and have
worked with this team and with Ms. Geuy. So that definitely has been happening. Getting more students
involved is definitely something they should be doing, but there are quite a few students helping out and
giving ideas.
Ms. Geuy said they're doing development so it will go into production in January, at the beginning of the
semester; and every two weeks there will be a new iteration. It was kind of crazy how they do it. It's not
normally how they do development on campus. But students should be able to see things changing
slowly, kind of like Facebook. If they keep on looking, they'll see things changing.
Mr. Lieu asked if there was any talk about having an AIP for this, or allowing students to extend the
functionality of this themselves. A lot of students have come up with great ideas, like Ninja Courses and
ScheduleBuilder, and want to build on top of what Cal already has.
Presentation on CalCentral, by Bernadette Geuy (cont'd)
Presentation on the Relay for Life, by Andrew Steinsapir and Polly Chen
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Ms. Geuy said there are two ways to get involved. They work with students in RSSP to help define what
the housing and dining experience would be like. That was one experience, one they're defining. And
then they could go get the data; and some of the data was actually very difficult. The other thing they're
trying to do is for notifications. Right now it's like a big system, so they're working in the back end. Students want to own the systems and have APIs, and they work with the Registrar to make some of those
APIs public. She thought students could work from the front end, and if you have some ideas, Ms. Geuy
said CalCentral could help try and surface the data for them. And in the longer run, there will be some
APIs that will be available for students. Part of what they're doing is to start from the front and then generate the work on the back end. Seeing no other questions, Mr. Sayarath said he would like to thank her.
Ms. Geuy said she would like to thank them for having her.
Presentation on the Relay for Life, by Andrew Steinsapir and Polly Chen
Andrew Steinsapir introduced himself and said he is a third-year there at Berkeley. He is the President of
Colleges Against Cancer. Polly Chen introduced herself and said she was also a third-year, and is the
Vice President. Mr. Steinsapir said Colleges Against Cancer is the name of the club. They are the
American Cancer Society’s college-level organization. The club puts on the Relay for Life.
The Relay for Life is a 24-hour event where teams of individuals, including students, professors, faculty,
staff, anyone, people in the community, get together for 24-hours in teams and take shifts, and walk
around a track or a course. The 24-hours is meant to symbolize the struggle that a cancer patient goes
through in their life. It's not 9-to-5, and there are no breaks. They just keep going. And while they're
walking, the teams are raising money, or they have raised money already.
Mr. Steinsapir said that before they talk about where all that money goes, they wanted to talk a little about
what they did last year, and what they hope to do later.
Ms. P. Chen said she’d talk about Colleges Against Cancer itself. It's the collegiate version of the American Cancer Society. ACS shares its four pillars with the campus community. The first pillar is Relay for
Life, the event itself. They also promote education and advocacy, because without education, they can't
stop cancer before it even starts. That’s why education was so important, and that’s why Senators might
see people from the group fliering for the “Kick Ciggies in the Butt” campaign. It's a kind of funny pun,
although not really. Their second pillar is survivorship, and Colleges Against Cancer does its best to
honor survivors, who are the Relay rock stars, and are the ones who are also fighting this battle. The
group celebrates the fact that they fought the battle against cancer. So all those participating actively
support those still battling cancer. People would be really surprised to learn how many of those people
they have on the campus, among faculty, etc.
Mr. Steinsapir said that last year they held Relay for Life at Edwards Stadium. He didn't know if people
in the room were able to be in attendance, but they had about 78 teams, which was great. And they raised
just over $48,000. Sadly, Stanford beat them on the fundraising, but still, raising $48,000 was great.
As to where that money went, Mr. Steinsapir said that was an important consideration, because anytime
they give money to something, they should know where it was going.
Presentation on the Relay for Life, by Andrew Steinsapir and Polly Chen (cont'd)
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The American Cancer Society does four main things. The first is research. The Berkeley campus itself
gets around $4 million in endowment for the American Cancer Society to do lifesaving research in biology and chemistry, to develop drugs and treatments for cancer patients. Additionally, money goes for education and advocacy, as Ms. P. Chen mentioned earlier. Their group, Colleges Against Cancer, gets pamphlets and materials to hand out. The ACS is an informational source for when people need information
the most, usually right after diagnosis. The ACS also advocates for change in the Legislature and to pass
laws that aid people as citizens. Finally, his favorite thing that the ACS does, was to provide free patient
service. It's what meant the most to him. The ACS does things like driving patients to and from the hospital for chemotherapy or radiation therapy. They have programs to give out tips, they have group therapy sessions, and there's a 24-hour hotline for cancer patients, caregivers, or anyone who is affected. The
line is always answered by a person. So if it's 3 a.m., and that was someone’s darkest hour, they would
have someone to talk to, and someone with information. So that was where the money goes.
As to what they'll be doing this year, Mr. Steinsapir, for this year they were hoping for more. That was
kind of their motto. They want 100 teams, with 1,000 participants, or about 10 participants per team.
And they want 100 survivors. That was what was really important to him. Additionally, they want to
raise $85,000. For 1,000 people, that shouldn't be too bad, $85 a person. They're currently in conference
with Intercollegiate Athletics to get Maxwell Field as their location, because Edwards is a little bit farther
away from everyone. Maxwell Field is closer to the fraternities and sororities, where the group hopes to
get a lot of involvement. Additionally, Maxwell has bathrooms and is close to dining halls, and where
freshmen live.
Mr. Steinsapir said that he and Ms. P. Chen both hope that Senators, as leaders in the campus community,
can make teams and participate in the Relay for Life. But what they really hope was for Senators to get
the word out to their constituents. Maybe they could put something out on Facebook, or talk to someone,
and tell them how important this was to them. Whether or not they have a direct connection with cancer,
it only takes about five minutes to recognize all the people in their lives who have been touched. He
really hoped that Senators can do this. He wanted to thank them for the time given to the group. Mr.
Sayarath called for any questions.
Mr. Pack said that if the group was interested in Senators posting stuff on Facebook, where they all have
blogs, if there's a particular script Colleges Against Cancer would like to e-mail them, they could all post
that. He thought that would make it easier for Senators, posting a script, to get people’s attention. Mr.
Steinsapir said that would be wonderful, and they could definitely do that for them. Mr. Sayarath said
things could be sent to senate@asuc.org.
Ms. Pepito said obviously there would be information for signing up on the forms. She asked where the
link is. Mr. Steinsapir said their Web site is relayforlife.org/ucberkeley.ca. He lost his ID and couldn't
get into his locker, and otherwise would have brought them the one-sheets that they have. They could
sign up on that site and register a team, and browse through the other teams and see if maybe a friend
already had a team that they wanted to join.
Mr. Lieu said he would like to thank them for sharing all the resources they have. He didn't know about
them. Mr. Steinsapir said he would like to thank and hoped to have their involvement. Seeing no other
questions, Mr. Sayarath said he would like to thank them.
Roll call was taken for attendance.
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary
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MEMBERS LEGALLY PRESENT:
Jason Bellet
Mihir Deo
George Kadifa
Klein Lieu
Rafi Lurie
Jeff Ma
Megan Majd
Jorge Pacheco
Nolan Pack
Deejay Pepito
Sahana Rajasekar
Sadia Saifuddin
Daley Vertiz
Emily White
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Emily Chen
Chen-Chen Huo
Sidronio Jacobo
Ryan Kang
Tom Lee
MEMBERS ABSENT:
Rosemary Hua (excused absence)
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary
Ms. Finn said she would like to thank the Senate for meeting in the Madrone Room that evening. She had
a few updates on what was going on, including things at Hearst Gym and Hearst Field Annex. But Ms.
Finn said she first just wanted to make a statement. Mr. Sayarath and Briana Mullen have been working
really hard over the last semester to get all the student organizations moved, and to get everybody settled
over at Hearst, working with Sharay Pinero and other staff from the University to make that transition.
Ms. Finn said that one piece that’s been hanging out there has been custodial services; and it hasn't been
the easiest process for them. Ms. Finn said she just wanted to publicly thank Mr. Sayarath and Ms.
Mullen for all that they have done. She also wanted to thank Ms. Pinero, who has stepped up and assisted
them. The three of them, together with many others, were kind of in a place where they have been stuck,
in not getting all the services they wish they had. But Ms. Finn said they've made some changes in the
last week and they will be seeing changes in custodial services shortly. And in the Spring Semester, she
could guarantee that it will be a totally different experience. She just wanted to share that, so all of them
knew that was moving forward.
Ms. Finn said they're also working on providing security services for those areas. Mr. Sayarath has
secured that funding, and they're moving forward with that.
Ms. Finn said that for other things related to surge, so they all know, the finance team of the ASUC Auxiliary that is currently located on the 4th floor of Eshleman will move into 212 Sproul. That will be their
third location. They will be there after Winter Break. Event Services will be moving into 102 Sproul.
For those who have been to Cal Corps, or to her office, or in that area, they could see that Event Services
will have to squeeze in with them; and they'll all be one happy family. That’s a change from where Event
Services was originally going to locate, to a space on Channing. But that won't be happening.
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary (cont'd)
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Ms. Finn said the last date for events in MLK, Hearst Gym, Tilden Room, Eshleman Library, Heller
Lounge, and all outdoor spaces, is Friday, December 7. Outdoor reservations will resume January 15 and
Hearst Gym reservations will resume January 22. Those are all important dates to note.
As for other planning things, she was sure they were all aware of the Occupy protest in Eshleman on
Tuesday night. Everyone is out of the building and Eshleman has been locked down and secured. At this
point, the plan is to keep the building locked and to not move forward with any building hours, in order to
ensure the security of the building. The one thing that was important to note is that if there's any delay in
construction plans, starting in January, it starts to cost them a lot of money. And that would equate to
using project money to absorb those expenses. They don't want that to happen. So Eshleman will remain
locked down.
Ms. Finn said the staff who are in the 4th floor of Eshleman will move back in. The construction personnel who have already started on the project, as well as the ASUC Auxiliary financial team, will move
back in. But that was all.
The business operations of the Graduate Assembly will work out of the LEAD Center, in 102 Hearst, and
GA Executives will operate out of 114A Hearst, and will be easily accessible.
Ms. Finn said they're in the process of redirecting events from the 7th floor Library and from the Senate
Chamber. That will be a process they'll work through, and they'll make sure everybody has event space.
If push comes to shove and they don't have any other spaces, they’ll ensure there's access to make sure
those events happen. But for now, they'll try to move those events. Senators will get communication in
the next couple of days on that process.
Ms. Finn said she talked about Lecture Notes last time. The Commercial and Student Services Board
approved phasing out Lecture Notes effective at the end of this semester. That communication has gone
out to faculty who work with Lecture Notes, as well as to the students, to the Daily Cal, and to others.
The staff are all well aware of this. The Auxiliary will continue to provide archive services for the next
year so students who buy notes to lectures that happened over the last couple of years can still purchase
them. The Auxiliary will make sure to promote that moving forward. Everything seems to be going
along very well.
Ms. Finn said that Jan Crowder wanted her to pass along to give a little plug for SUPERB, which will
have a college humor show featuring Jake and Amir live on Thursday night, 8:00 to 10:00 in Evans Hall.
Lastly, Ms. Finn said that Amanda Reese, from the Bookstore, was present that evening just to say “hi.”
As they all know, John Bolduc, the Director of the Bookstore, is no longer with Follett and the ASUC’s
Store, so Ms. Reese is operating as Interim Director. Ms. Finn said she just wanted Ms. Reese to be able
to say hello to them. If people need anything, Ms. Reese is readily available to make things happen. Mr.
Sayarath called for any questions.
Mr. Deo said how the decision was made to phase out Lecture Notes, and why it was made. Ms. Finn
said the discussion on Lecture Notes came about because for the last two years it has operated at a deficit.
When running a commercial business, you really don't want to run a deficit. So the program was looked
at, and CSSB the Committee reviewed both the profitability and the long-term sustainability of the program. The Disabled Students' Program provides its own note taking service for students in need, so that
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary (cont'd)
Approval of the Minutes
New Business
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service was being met, which was a service Lecture Notes provided at the beginning. The other factor is
that there isn't the rate of interest in it that they have had. Lectures are being provided vie Webcast and
there are other forms of notetaking. So it just wasn't viable as a business model at this point.
Mr. Deo asked if the decision to phase to Lecture Notes was made by the CSSB. Ms. Finn said that was
correct.
Ms. Saifuddin said the Deficit Reduction Task Force talked about Lecture Notes, and one thing she’d
mention being discussed at the meeting was that while it was being phased out now, the ASUC might
develop a business model for it and possibly reopen it in the fall. That was kind of what Pres. Landgraf
was thinking. The Task Force thought that would be a better idea since it hasn't been operating in the
most efficient manner possible. Mr. Landgraf talked about still wanting to provide services for students,
but just for now, to phase out Lecture Notes for this semester.
Ms. Finn said she thought it was more about taking the Spring Semester to have a discussion and a conversation about this, and if they were to bring it back, what would be the best way to do that, and what it
would look like. She was definitely not opposed to conversations.
Mr. Pacheco said that at the last meeting he asked Jeff Woods if Ms. Finn could provide historical, financial budgets for the ASUC, and asked what the progress was on that. Ms. Finn said that fell off her radar
and she’d follow-up on that. Marilyn Stager shared with her that she was still working with Mr. Pacheco
on that and had been in contact with him. Mr. Pacheco said that was correct. Ms. Finn asked if he has
been unable to get the historical data he was looking for. Mr. Pacheco said they don't necessarily want a
lot of data, and just want a binder. Only the Deficit Task Force has that information. What he was asking
for was something that was readily available to the public. Ms. Finn said she would follow-up on that and
would apologize. Seeing no other questions, Mr. Sayarath said he would like to thank her. Ms. Finn said
she would like to thank them.
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
Mr. Sayarath called for any amendments to the minutes from the November 14 meeting, and seeing none,
called for a motion to approve. It was so moved and seconded. THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE
MINUTES FROM THE NOVEMBER 14, 2012 SENATE MEETING PASSED WITH NO
OBJECTION.
NEW BUSINESS
Mr. Sayarath said the Chair would entertain a motion to send the following bills to committee:
SB 177, In Support of the Blues at Berkeley, to the Finance Committee
New Business (cont'd)
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SB 178, In Support of International Youth and Students for Social Equality, to the Finance Committee
SB 179, Concerning Citizens United versus the Federal Elections Commission, to the University and
External Affairs Committee
SB 180, In Support of the Korean Student Organizations Winter Banquet, to the Finance Committee
SB 181, In Support of Sigma Nu’s House of Sugar Philanthropy Event, to the Finance Committee
SB 182, In Support of Korean Chamber Ensemble, to the Finance Committee
SB 183, In Support of Tau Omega Pi, to the Finance Committee
SB 184, In Support of the Social Media Club, to the Finance Committee
SB 185, In Support of Blueprint at Berkeley, to the Finance Committee
SB 186, In Support of the Magnolia Project’s Service Trip, to the Finance Committee
SB 187, In Support of Fair Trade Practices at UC Berkeley, to the University and External Affairs
Committee
SB 188, Commemorating the Efforts of the ASUC Auxiliary Associate Director, to the University and
External Affairs Committee
SB 189, Recognizing the Exemplary Work of the Multicultural Student Development Directors, to the
University and External Affairs Committee
SB 190, In Support of the Establishment of Philippine Studies, to the University and External Affairs
Committee
SB 191, In Support of No Confidence in Vice Chancellor Basri’s Administration of the MSD offices, to
the University and External Affairs Committee
SB 192, In Support of the Nikkei Student Union’s 10th Annual Culture Show – “Mosaic,” to the Finance
Committee
SB 193, In Support of BareAbundance, to the Finance Committee
SB 194, In Support of the International Justice Mission, UC Berkeley Chapter, to the Finance Committee
SB 195, In Support of Bear Girls of Berkeley, to the Finance Committee
SB 196, In Support of a More Transparent and Accessible Elections Process, to the Constitutional and
Procedural Review Committee
SB 197, In Support of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Black Women’s Appreciation, Inc. ASUC
Sponsorship, to the Finance Committee
New Business (cont'd)
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SB 198, In Support of the Olive Tree Initiative “My Favorite Enemy” Concert, to the Finance Committee
University and External Affairs Committee
SB 199, In Support of the Olive Tree Initiative Leadership Conference, to the Finance Committee
SB 200, In Support of Indigenous Peoples Night of Resistance, to the Finance Committee
SB 201, In Support of Gender Inclusive Spaces in the Recreational Sports Facility, to the University and
External Affairs Committee
SB 202, In Support of Inclusivity Training, to the Finance Committee and to the University and External
Affairs Committee
SB 203, In Support of Queer and Trans* Inclusive Materials at Cal Student Orientation Sessions, to the
Finance Committee and to the University and External Affairs Committee
SB 204, In Support of the Visibility and Recruitment of Queer Students in the UC System, to the University and External Affairs Committee
SB 205, In Support of an ASUC Comptroller General, to the Constitutional and Procedural Review
Committee
SB 206, In Support of Wolf House - Wolf, to the Finance Committee
SB 207, In Support of Oscar Wilde House – Wilde House, to the Finance Committee
SB 208, In Support of Stebbins Hall – Stebbins, to the Finance Committee
SB 209, In Support of Sherman Hall - Sherman, to the Finance Committee
SB 210, In Support of Rochdale Apartments - Rochdale, to the Finance Committee
SB 211, In Support of Ridge House - Ridge, to the Finance Committee
SB 212, In Support of Northside Co-op Apartments - Northside, to the Finance Committee
SB 213- A Bill in Support of Lothlorien - Loth, to the Finance Committee
SB 214, In Support of Kingman Hall – Kingman, to the Finance Committee
SB 215, In Support of Kidd Hall - Kidd, to the Finance Committee
SB 216, In Support of Hoyt Hall – Hoyt, to the Finance Committee
SB 217, In Support of Fenwick Weavers’ Village - Fenwick, to the Finance Committee
SB 218, In Support of Euclid Hall – Euclid, to the Finance Committee
SB 219, In Support of Davis House - Davis, to the Finance Committee
New Business (cont'd)
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SB 220, In Support of Casa Zimbabwe – CZ, to the Finance Committee
SB 221, In Support of a Fair Lease Renewal for the Convent, to the University and External Affairs
Committee
SB 222, In Support of The Convent - Convent, to the Finance Committee
SB 223, In Support of Cloyne Court - Cloyne, to the Finance Committee, to the Finance Committee
SB 224, In Support of Andres Castro Arms – Castro House, to the Finance Committee
SB 225, In Support of the Berkeley Student Food Collective in New Lower Sproul, to the University and
External Affairs Committee
SB 226, In Support of the Berkeley BicyCal Bicycle Cooperative in New Lower Sproul, to the University
and External Affairs Committee
SB 227, In Support of African-American Theme House – Afro House, to the Finance Committee
SB 228, In Support of Consolidating the ASUC By-Laws, to the Constitutional and Procedural Review
Committee
SB 229, In Support of a Constitutional Amendment to the Advocacy Agenda, to the Constitutional and
Procedural Review Committee
SB 230, In Support of Hillegass-Parker House -HiP House, to the Finance Committee (belatedly added to
the agenda by the Chair)
SB 231, In Support of You Mean More, to the Finance Committee (belatedly added to the agenda by the
Chair)
Mr. Sayarath called for a motion to approve New Business. It was so moved and seconded. THE
MOTION TO APPROVE NEW BUSINESS PASSED WITH NO OBJECTION. Mr. Sayarath said he
wanted to wish everyone good luck at next week’s committee meetings.
APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA (Dec. 5)
Mr. Sayarath said the Chair would entertain a motion to approve the agenda for next week. It was so
moved and seconded. THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA FOR THE DECEMBER 5 SENATE MEETING PASSED WITH NO OBJECTION.
Standing Committee Reports
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Reporting for the Finance Committee, Ms. Saifuddin said that Fi-Comm convened on Monday and passed
the following bills, with amendments: SBs 169, as amended; and 173, as amended. Fi-Comm tabled three
bills: SBs 170, 171, and 176.
Ms. Saifuddin said that the Contingency Tracker says they have $4,588 left in the Contingency Fund.
She was excited to see what the Contingency Tracker will look like after next week’s Senate meeting.
The Senate has done a really, really good job that year at not replenishing their Contingency Fund, at least
to this point. They'll try and keep that going.
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ASUC Senate
Finance Committee
Monday November 26, 2012
I.
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V.
Call to Order 9:10
Approval of the Minutes
Guest Announcements
a. Jessica uploaded grants update to dropbox folder.
Form Appeals
a. None
Finance Rule Waivers
a. Grace not present
b. Raymond not present
c. Jennifer Ng
i. Decal board is applying for fee waiver. Facilitator banquet at the end of the semester. Money comes from 10% budget allocated. Having it throughout the semester.
Facilitator banquet is to award the services of the facilitators who have been serving the decal community.
ii. Klein: MOTION TO APPROVE THIS WAIVER
1. NONE OPPOSED
2. WAIVER PASSED
d. Anish Dave
i. Printed budget to explain what’s going on. Currently director for the ASUC student
legal clinic. Asking for to get allocation for sweatshirts for a clinic. Mockup for
sweatshirts. Sweatshirts play an important role in the clinic. The role they play is
that they’re doing community outreach because they are a volunteer income tax
assistance site. Go to a lot of outreach events. Used as identification factor. Have
clients come in and they know who to look for based on apparel. Plays important
role in clinic. Funding them every year. Asking for permission an already allocated
sum of money that they have in the budget.
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--------------Minutes from the Fi-Comm meeting of November 26 (cont'd)
ii. Deo: Would you ever have to come back to the Finance Committee for any other
expenditures?
iii. Guest: No, we already have all expenditures laid out. We carry most of the sum. A
lot of events we put on our own tab. We don’t want to spend your money if we can.
This will be the only time. We’re subsidizing this and asking for money from each
intern.
iv. Sadia: MOTION TO APPROVE WAIVER
v. SID: SECONDS
1. WAIVER PASSES
e. Timofey Semenov
i. At the end of the semester we put on an event where we greet students coming into
Moffitt with donut holes, hot chocolate, and coffee. Outreach to the community and
publicize our office and our services. Asking that the money in our budget be used
for food.
ii. HUA MOTIONS TO PASS THIS FOOD WAIVER
iii. SID SECONDS
1. WAIVER PASSES
VI.
Facility Waivers
a. Emily Chen: OASIS. Non-profit organization that tutors kids K-5. Tutor force is entirely
volunteer based. Hold a banquet dinner for these volunteers. Strongly believes that this
banquet has a high returning rate for this student. OASIS has cut a lot of funding for this
dinner. Requesting a fee waiver for renting East Pauley Ballroom for this event.
i. Amir: Full waiver for East Pauley ($200)
ii. Amir: Curious, you got $800 for spring budgeting; could any of that money be used
to pay for some parts of the facility
iii. Jojo: Majority of budget goes to reimbursements throughout the semester for
recruitment and mid semester and end semester gifts for our tutors. Reimbursements for drivers and buses to Oakland. Other events are volunteer social.
iv. Guest: Usually have a higher budget, but it was cut. The funding goes to other
committees.
v. Jojo: Started a fundraising committee, but still starting it out and hopefully it’ll
help them out with budget cuts.
vi. Amir: With all the groups, they’ve only given half waivers unless there is a reason
why. Asks the chamber why not full waiver.
vii. Lieu: I used to be a mentee in Oasis. Anyway, the line item budget equates to over
$1,800 and I feel like if they cut something or shrink line-items to get the other
$100, I think that’s totally doable.
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viii. Sadia: Recommendation is to give a half waiver because that’s what we typically
done. It’s not that we don’t want to give you a full waiver but Pauley is going down
for the next 3-4 years and we won’t get any income from that.
ix. Sadia MOTION TO AMEND EAST PAULEY WAIVER TO HALF OF EAST
PAULEY WAIVER (so.. MOTION TO PASS HALF WAIVER)
x. LIEU SECONDS
xi. MOTION PASSES
b. Shahryar: For k-college. A group that started at UC Berkeley and started a nonprofit. Provide over $10 million of school supplies to the Bay Area. They’ve been doing this every
year except last year there was supposed to be an assembly drive for the school supplies.
Usually assemble them with students from different campus communities and to do it on
campus, and traditionally they’ve done it in Pauley Ballroom ever since they’ve started.
School supply kits get distributed across the Bay Area to over 100,000 underprivileged
school children. Waiver is for an event they want to hold in Pauley Ballroom. Non profit
so not much funding. Student group links communities to students.
c. Guest: Here are the forms. This Saturday, will load up supplies. On Sunday is the
actual event from 10-4 and it’s the first 5,000 kits. We give backpacks full of
school supplies to underprivileged students who are homeless children who can’t
afford back to school supplies. They have white boards, dry erase markers, and
even play-dough. Quality backpacks. $70 worth of supplies. Buy it in bulk, so it
undercuts the cost, so it’s only about $22. By having the fee reduced, it would
really help us which would contribute to another 55 backpacks for students.
d. Shahryar: it would mean a lot to the group
e. Chini: Thank you for coming. I genuinely think this is awesome. Usually student
fees are used towards Berkeley students. These kids aren’t Berkeley students right?
f. Guest: The students are around this Berkeley area. Shahryar: A lot of these students
do end up going to Berkeley.
g. Amir: Except in 3 instances, we’ve only given a half waiver. I think a fair compromise is if we give a half waiver so we’re still subsidizing half the cost instead of the
full cost.
h. Shahryar: The event has 500-600 Cal students that volunteer at it. We’ve had
volunteers from RAZA and Greek communities. College students are the ones volunteering to make it. The chancellor comes, the mayor comes. It’s a start up that
has been started by Berkeley students.
i. Hua:
j. Sadia: I also like that this is not a profit generating thing. We do a lot of work with
recruitment and retention.
k. Kang: I think I’m very against given no money or even a half waiver because how
many Berkeley students are you expecting to volunteer?
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l. Guest: 500. It’s the biggest thing that has happened with Berkeley students and the
local community.
m. Kang: I think we should fund this either half or full because it’s giving Berkeley
students that don’t have a chance to be together with other communities to be
together. Instead of focusing on the kids that these packages will go to, we should
focus on the packaging and community.
n. Lieu: I’m looking at their budget and it’s quite extensive. $100,000 budget. Are
there any areas that you could feasibly scale down to pay for half a waiver?
o. Chini: If you give a half waiver, 50 kids don’t get supplies?
p. Guest: 55
q. Chini: But the event would still go on right?
r. Guest: If you take away from the money from that it’s the possibilities it would
bring. It just goes to other funds and different resources we need to continue this
project.
s. Shahryar: Funding originally came from the Obama stimulus package but that
money has gone away. It’s hard to get kids to donate. That’s why they partner with
Universities. In the past, the ASUC has always given them a full waiver, but I
understand the situation isn’t the same as it is in the past. It brings together 5001000 students every year.
t. Lieu: Just to clarify, if we fund half, because it says the source of funding for the
preschool kit supplies are coming from Kaiser and Alameda County? Regardless of
how we fund this venue, we won’t affect the kids that they serve.
u. Guest: It’s not just about the kids. It’s also about having the facility getting the support from Cal
v. Deo: So you stated that this has been done before?
w. Shahryar: Last year we got double full Pauley, year before same. It brings together
all of the media and it’s a very cool hit.
x. Chini: I’m genuinely proud to go to a school that has this event and I do want to
support it but we have a huge deficit running so I can’t fathom giving $1250 of full
waiver. I’m happy to get a half waiver which is $625 from the students.
y. Sadia: I want to move it to a consensus to make a decision. From the temperature,
half waiver is down for everyone?
z. Lieu: Half waiver for both days? 625 both days?
aa. Sadia: Yes.
bb. Hua: I want to fund a full waiver.
cc. Sadia: Their budget is quite large, and a lot of budgets are quite smaller. I know
donations are a lot smaller. We want to gain money for event services.
dd. Deo: When we’re looking at waivers, are we looking at the impact on the community? We’ve done that in the past, based on numbers of groups that show up. When
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ee. we looked MSA, they did have big budgets, but there were a large amount of
members from the community that came out. When we’re looking towards that it
would make sense for a full waiver.
ff. Hua: I think their budget will be very different because they are a nonprofit and it’s
probably not a budget that we’re used to.
gg. Shahryar: this is a nonprofit that has a huge operation in CA, but they traditionally
rely on spaces being donated which is why they come to UC Berkeley. That’s what
their notion is based on.
hh. Deo: So this is an event for 2 days. So we’d be requesting a full waiver for both
days.
ii. Chini: Want to emphasize that this event will happen regardless of a full waiver or
half waiver. Yes, granting a full waiver will not impact our contingency. We’ll be
$625 less in our Contingency. If this event would not happen without a full waiver,
I would be all for it. In 5 years, that’s the direction that the ASUC could head.
MOTION FOR A HALF WAIVER
jj. JACOBO SECONDS
kk. HUA OPPOSES
ll. VOTE TO CHANGE IT TO HALF WAIVER:
i. THOSE OPPOSED
1. KANG
2. HUA
3. DEO
ii. IN FAVOR
1. KLEIN
mm.
Deo: want to discuss it more.
nn. Sadia I just want the convo to go towards a consensus.
oo. Deo: I just want to discuss it a little bit more. I just want to go through the justifications for each vote. So we can fully understand. Are we measuring by impact of
event, or by budget? For MSA and Indus, we would still do the event, but it would
impact them in the future.
pp. Sadia: It’s a mixture of both. K to college is a student group and non profit. If it
were only a student group we could evaluate based on just Spring Budgeting. This
is a specific case so we’re looking at every avenue. Officer Chini was saying that
we do have a deficit. I also do understand that it is a nonprofit. Looking at the
budget, I agree with officer Chini. It seems to have enough funding and strength to
make it happen.
qq. Jacobo: Applying for sponsorship. Just looking at budget for last two years they
would be a 1st year SISG.
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rr. Shahryar: Jan will clarify this. They were sponsored last year. They didn’t go
through Spring Budgeting. As a result, lost their sponsorship.
ss. Lieu: They weren’t even on 2011 – 2012.
tt. Shahryar: For two cycles. They didn’t need to go through Spring Budgeting
because they didn’t need any money. When they tried to appeal.
uu. Deo: I understand the event can still happen if there’s a half waiver, but can you
describe the impact if there’s a half waiver instead of a full one.
vv. Shahryar: It’s surviving off of community donations and state and local funding
which is always influx. Generally something this big wouldn’t come to student
government. They started in Berkeley and everyone who works there are UC
Berkeley graduates. They have an event every year which affects 500,000 people.
Comes down to their total budget or student group budget. The impact the student
group has is less.
ww.
Guest: Parts why a lot of people feel like we don’t need a waiver is because
it’s a large scale event. But it’s a large scale event because it’s great. That shouldn’t
impact the amount of money we need. We just want support and we need this but it
will affect us in the future.
xx. Lieu: If you could help me out in the logic of one needing a full waiver and yet in
the budget I see misplaced priorities in Quaker oatmeal bars, in cheese and
pepperoni pizzas. Why were those funds given to t-shirts?
yy. Hua: They probably don’t account for venues because usually non profits are given
venues for free, whereas food and t-shirts aren’t as easily canvassed for.
zz. Shahryar: as they were budgeting, they might have been assuming the venue would
have been accounted for
aaa.
Guest: Part of the sponsorship program we have with Kaiser is that they
require their employees to volunteer at service events. Kaiser wanted us to have
that budget to make sure that their employees and students have enough food and tshirts and incentives to come. It wasn’t under our discretion because first and
foremost we would of course budget for the venue.
bbb. Chini: I understand Senator Deo’s point that we funded groups that would’ve
funded the event regardless of our full or half waiver. I’d like to say that this
committee has set $785 for GOF and brought that down. I really think our ASUC
deficit and Cal Lodge, we really can’t afford to give full waivers. Especially
when it’s 2 full waivers for the most expensive facility we have on campus. I’d
like to propose the philosophy that a full waiver is only granted when the event
cannot happen.
ccc. Sadia: does anyone want to say anything?
ddd. Tom just came in.
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VII.
eee. Sadia summarizing: giving the choice of full waiver or half waiver. Chini says
it’s more of a better idea to grant a half waiver because of current financial
situation. Summary.
fff. FAVOR OF GRANTING HALF WAIVER FOR K TO COLLEGE
1. LIEU
2. JACOBO
ii. OPPOSED
1. HUA
2. KANG
3. DEO
4. LEE
iii. MOTION FAILS
ggg.
Sadia: We have to have a specific reason for doing that.
hhh. Shahryar: We would have to do Saturday full waiver and Sunday half waiver
iii. Sadia: Either way it’s money. It doesn’t matter how many people are coming
each day.
jjj. SADIA MOTIONS TO GRANT A FULL WAIVER FOR SATURDAY AND
HALF WAIVER FOR SUNDAY
i. KANG SECONDS
ii. MOTION PASSES
Brenda Lee:
a. Guest: Want a full waiver. A lot of models spent money from their own pocket. This fashion show’s purpose is to display all of the hard work that designers have put in. Rented
Tan Oak Room and other rooms so we really need a fee waiver for Pauley Ballroom.
b. Tom: How many students will be attending?
c. Guest: Expecting 250 – 300 students. Fashion show is a really big fashion show. Holds a
bi-annual fashion show and usually we sell out tickets and so we rent out Pauley Ballroom.
d. Sadia: Half of Pauley holds 250? Runway?
e. Guest: Yes.
f. Chini: External Funding?
g. Guest: We don’t get external funding so we’re trying to waive this cost.
h. Chini: Profits from last year were a little over 1,000.
i. Sadia: It would negatively impact the student group and even if they don’t get the full
waiver.
j. Kang: Agree. With the Tan Oak and other room, you are paying for that right?
k. Guest: Yes.
l. Kang: We should give them the full waiver because it seems like it would really be detrimental to them if we don’t. $300 is a lot.
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m. Chini: Point of information: on the application, the group stated if they don’t receive funding, they have to use proceeds from last year. There were more than $1,000 of proceeds.
n. Sadia: Have you use the $1,000?
o. Guest: We are still in the process of printing materials. A lot of proceeds go towards printing materials and other services.
p. Deo: There’s no other sources of funding other than Senate contingency?
q. Sadia: SOF?
r. Deo: If we give a half waiver, what happens?
s. Guest: We’ll still continue event but it will negatively hurt our financials.
t. Jacobo: How would it impact?
u. Guest: We would have to spend extra money when we have other things to do to benefit
the fashion show. DJ, cloths, press packets, printing, tickets, banner,
v. Lee: Proceeds from last year?
w. Sadia: Is all of the proceeds covering that?
x. Guest: we might collect model dues, but yes.
y. Sadia: How many people are coming?
z. Guest: 250 – 300.
aa. Sadia: I think they’re making money from ticket sales, profits from last year.
bb. Hua: This is a really expensive event. They need to buy DJ, cloths, press packets, printing,
tickets, banner, and even if they get max capacity times $5 is only $1500. That’s definitely
not enough to pay for everything, even adding past profits.
cc. Guest: We have to buy makeup artists and lighting.
dd. Chini: In the long run, this hurts all student groups. Asking the body to not be short sighted
and think of the long term. Broken record.
ee. Sadia: Are we going to start funding $800 for just I-House?
ff. Guest: FAST is a unique student org. It’s the only fashion student org on campus. I’m a
first year and the only club I saw was FAST because it was something I was interested in. I
worked at Nordstrom and there wasn’t any other club that truly appealed to me like FAST
did. Going to a fashion show can show community that Berkeley is not always about
academics.
gg. Sadia: It’s been really tough and we’re in this project deficit. We want to help you out.
We’re trying to figure out the best way to service your needs.
hh. SADIA MOTION TO PASS HALF WAIVER
i. SECOND
1. LEE
ii. OPPOSED
1. HUA
2. JACOBO
iii. MOTION DOES NOT PASS
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ii. Jacobo: Is this the last time you will come in for funding?
jj. Guest: We come every semester for a fashion show.
kk. Hua: You won’t be able to come in next semester because it’s being renovated.
ll. Sadia: Subsidizing the cost of I-House venue. We don’t own that space but we’re trying to
subsidize the cost of half of that for what we’re going to be giving. We want student
groups to have same access. For future, that might be where you want to start having your
event.
mm.
MOTION TO PASS FULL WAIVER
i. IN FAVOR
1. LIEU
2. LEE
3. DEO
ii. OPPOSED
1. JACOBO
2. KANG
3. HUA
4. SAIFFUDIN
VIII. Old Business
IX.
New Business
SB 169 - A Bill in Support of the Mixed Student Union’s Annual Fall Conference
1. Tia Weinberg: Finance Coord for MSU. Core member of bridges. Had
event on November 17th. MSU’s annual fall conference. Facilitating workshops focusing on mixed identity and mixed race issues. 100 students came
out and it was across campus. Requesting money for parking permits and
printing programs.
2. Pepito: MOTION TO AMEND THE BUDGET TO CUT FUNDING FOR
FLYERS. THEY ENDED UP NOT DOING FLYERS SO CUT $15.
a. LEE SECONDS
b. PASSED
3. SADIA MOTION TO AMEND TOTAL REQUESTED AMOUNT TO
$119
a. JACOBO SECONDS
b. MOTION PASSES
4. Jacobo: Was this a mistake on your part or is it a necessity for you to have
this money? The $70 that were cut off.
5. Guest: Programs not as big of a deal. The big event for fall is fall conference and for spring, it’s the Senior Weekend. Trying to focus on allocating
more money towards senior weekend and spring events because that’s our
big event. Programs aren’t as big of a deal since we applied for a lot of
grants so I can probably figure out somewhere else to get that money from.
More so the parking. We can’t get that from any other sources of funding.
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6. SADIA MOTIONS TO PASS THE BILL
a. HUA SECONDS
b. BILL PASSES
7. JACOBO, SADIA ADDED AS COSPONSOR,
SB 170 - A Bill in Support of the East Asian Union/Asian-American Association’s Night
Market
TOM MOTIONS TO TABLE THIS BILL BECAUSE ONE OF THE INVOICES FROM THE BUDGET
HASN’T COME IN FOR ELECTRICIAN.
Klein: if you table this bill, it will be heard before recess for winter?
Sadia: We have a meeting next week.
SECOND MOTION
TABLED
SB 171 - A Bill In Support of the Delta House of Pancakes
Sadia: Requesting $500 from GOF.
Jacobo: Where are you getting funding from? I know this event happened already so I had some questions. Do you want to table it?
Tom: If you have a question, considering this already happened and we do have another week to consider,
I mean..
Sadia: We can table it but I’d rather not (Kang agrees). I don’t want anyone to feel silenced. If there’s an
issue we can talk about it.
Chini: The bill is going to pass, it just seems unconscionable that we’re funding $380 for photobooth.
Lieu: How much in the GOF do we have left?
Chini: $4,600.
Lieu: That’s out of $8,000?
Chini: Yes.
Sadia: I want to come to some decision about this. That’s a conversation worth having for ATDF.
SADIA MOVES TO PASS SB 171
HUA SECONDS
Tom: To address Chini’s concern, it might be that they requested $380 for photobooth and they spent
money on everything else.
Chini: It’s just a loophole to get food money.
Jacobo: Concern is that we’re funding an event for the total amount without the group being here. Would
we do this for another group? It’s the full amount. For them not to be here and for us to pass it easily.
Sadia: If you are down, we can table it for next week and have Sahana come in. I was in communication
with her and she had me look at the budget. I knew the bill was coming and I made sure everything was in
the soft caps. I told her we don’t fund food. If you want to table it, we can table. If you want to pass, we
can pass. Especially for our Senators not to take advantage of our personal relationships. What do you
think?
SADIA MOTIONS TO TABLE SB 171.
Klein: I want to table it knowing that we’ll come to a decision.
Sadia: Yeah, just for them to come in and talk to us.
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SB 173 - A Bill in Support of K to College
Klein: In the resolution clause it says to recognize it as a 4th year SISG and from what EAVP Abbasi told
us, it seems like they’ve missed Spring Budgeting.
Chini: If they apply every year, 2 years did elapse.
Hua: There was a Ski Team bill that was passed for sponsorship but isn’t in Spring Budgeting.
Deo and Lieu: We found the bill.
Klein: I’d like to make a note that if you could talk to the auxiliary to make sure that the bills are included
in Spring Budgeting.
SADIA MOTIONS TO AMEND THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED CLAUSE TO SAY “THAT THE
ASUC RECOGNIZE K TO COLLEGE AS A 4TH YEAR SISG”
LIEU SECONDS
PASSES
SADIA MOTIONS TO PASS SB 173
HUA SECONDS
SB 176 - A Bill in Support of Bay Area Social Justice Hackers
Klein: I want to create a new club. Pair programmers with nonprofits. Programmers can use their skills
for the common good. Berkeley should have something like this. Need to fix some line items.
Rose: Is this group registered under the LEAD center?
Klein: No, wasn’t aware. Etc.
SADIA MOTIONS TO TABLE
JACOBO SECONDS
MOTION PASSED
X.
Elected Official Announcement
Adjournment
End minutes from the Finance Committee meeting of November 26
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Reporting for the Constitutional and Procedural Review Committee, Mr. Pacheco said they met, and this
was the first meeting where the ASUC Solicitor General position was vacant. They're on track to interview new people and should have that ready for next week.
Con-Review had one bill from a long time ago, SB 13. The bill talks about a report that had to be produced prior to the last Senate meeting regarding ASUC By-laws. Mr. Pack will speak more on ConReview’s findings and about specific recommendations to improve of ASUC By-laws.
Mr. Pacheco said that Con-Review also created a bill that will be before the Senate that evening to consolidate the By-laws. He would suggest that everybody look through it. It pretty much lays out the
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infrastructural framework of what the new ASUC By-laws will look like, and how all the By-law titles
will be consolidated into concise categories.
Lastly, Mr. Pacheco said they also talked about the Advocacy Agenda and its problem with implementation. Historically, there's been a problem in implementing the Advocacy Agenda, so Con-Review decided
to introduce a bill to amend the Constitution to give the implementation duties instead of to the ASUC
Senate, which was basically defunct, since Advocacy Agenda Committees never meet, and to take that
responsibility out of the Senate and give it to the Office of the President. That should be more effective.
They'll start to do that next year. That’s one of the topics the Senate will discuss next week.
Mr. Pacheco said he didn't give a Con-Review report for the previous week, and Con-Review actually
met during Thanksgiving break. Con-Review passed SBs 120; 154; and 174, as amended.
Mr. Pack said that as Sen. Pacheco mentioned, Con-Review was required by SB 13 to produce a report on
the findings on how the Senate could improve the ASUC in specific ways, regarding transparency,
accountability, and enforcement. Mr. Pack said that Con-Review has been working on that for the whole
semester, starting with the Committee’s retreat, and pointing out things in the By-laws throughout that
time. They also have a fourth category of miscellaneous stuff that was mostly efficiency related.
Mr. Pack said that in the interests of fulfilling the duty of SB 13, he would read through a list. ConReview is producing a much more polished list of specific changes. But his report that evening would
give the Senate an idea of where Con-Review is going, and some of the stuff they may work on over the
winter.
In the transparency category, Mr. Pack said they wanted to sort of fix the way the Senate does posting.
Ideally, they’d somehow reform the timeline for posting agendas, with complete agendas and Senate bills.
It would involve reforming the process for submitting bills, possibly, as well as a timeline for posting
agendas and committee minutes. As Senators were all aware, Con-Review is working on that already.
They also want to start enforcing written reports for Executives. That’s something Con-Review was
already working on. That By-law would involve a number of positions. They also want to work towards
written reports from some key appointed officials, such as the Attorney General. The agenda includes a
whole list of people who, in theory, are supposed to report to the Senate. The agenda for that evening had
a truncated list. These were such officials as the Sustainability Director, the Commissioner of Diversity
Affairs, and that sort of thing. Ideally, they would report to the Senate with some level of frequency, so
the Senate knows what they're doing.
Mr. Pack said another By-law amendment would be with changes in the interfund transfer process, when
they move money. As for making agendas more available to the public, and at meetings, there's a lot to
talk about whether that would be in terms of paper or in electronic form, and to possibly reformat the
structure of the agenda to make it more efficient. Another idea was to reform the public comment process, so people have a more organized way to deliver public comments. And somehow, they were thinking of changing or modifying the report from the Finance Officer, in order to get something really comprehensive at every Senate meeting.
In terms of accountability, Mr. Pack said they want job descriptions for at least the key appointed official
positions, and then a review procedure that would use the job descriptions to weigh against the activities
and performance of people in those stipended positions.
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Another proposal was to have an attendance and reporting grid, to be maintained by someone for
appointed official, and whether or not they actually delivered reports at the time they were supposed to, or
if they have reported at all that semester. This would help when the Senate considers the stipends of people in these positions. Additionally, all these reports would be assembled into a weekly collection of
reports that would be delivered to the Senate, so Senators could see what all their appointed positions
were working on. Mr. Pack said he thought most Senators probably don’t know.
And then Mr. Pack said Con-Review wanted to possibly extend these accountability mechanisms to
stipended elected officials. They'd re-evaluate the evaluation process for stipended positions, and measure positions against their job descriptions. So Con-Review will look at how that process could work.
Mr. Pack said enforcement was the last category they'd work on with the By-laws. They want some sort
of recording auditor, someone who does all this work, and who touches base with people constantly. The
Committee didn't really feel like there was anyone that task fell to at this time, or who it would be fair to
put this burden on at that time. So they'd create a new position, some sort of reporting auditor, possibly a
comptroller general, with a reporting line to the Attorney General. So if people didn't do their job or
report, the Senate could proceed from there.
Mr. Pack said that Con-Review would also like to have a uniform removal process for appointed officials,
since different parts of the By-laws say different things about that.
And then finally, Con-Review wanted to improve miscellaneous stuff dealing mostly with efficiency, and
reporting timelines, so that Senators knew at the beginning of their terms timelines they were required to
know, so they could work with four committees, and not convene 20 different committees, and the timelines related to what all those different committees do.
Mr. Pack said another possible By-law reform, or at least something they talk about in the Finance Committee, was to have a separate pool of money just for student funding, an account that would be separate
from Contingency Fund money. It would be a separate pool of money just for student funding, separate
from Contingency money. Money in the Contingency Fund would really just be used for things like
when the water heater at the Cal Lodge explodes. That was something they'd use Contingency money for.
They know they spend about $80,000 every year, or more, on student group money. So the idea was to
actually have a separate pool of money for student group funding. And the Contingency Fund would be a
protected pool of money for unforeseeable things, like the water heater.
Mr. Pack said that again, more policies were coming. This was just to let the Senate know what the
Committee will be working on over the Winter Break.
Ms. Pepito said Con-Review was taking the lead in really reforming and restructuring the way the Senate
runs. But that wouldn't do any good if not all 20 Senators around the table were okay with these changes.
By the time the Senate makes these changes, they won't be able to provide the institutional knowledge for
the next Senate class, which will really need help if all these changes were going to be made. Current
Senators will be the only ones who know about this. So the folks who won't graduate that June, and who
will still be there, and who were likely to have successors or other Senators who take their place, will
hopefully work with the incoming Senators to implement any changes this Senate makes. That was
something else that was wrong with the ASUC, in terms of passing on institutional knowledge and
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leadership. So Ms. Pepito said she would encourage Senators to stay engaged with Con-Review and to
pay attention to the changes being proposed, because it will impact all of them and future Senate classes
to come.
Mr. Pacheco asked Senators to please pay attention when Mr. Pack reports on proposed By-law changes.
A lot of the proposed changes will be very substantive and will change the way the Senate operates. He
would encourage Senators to really be agents of change. Con-Review couldn't do this by itself. And it
could be a real pain if people have a problem with these proposals, and what Con-Review was doing, if
Con-Review didn't learn about people’s problems as the process moves along. So Con-Review needs
Senators’ engagement on this, and they're relying on Senators to help Con-Review help the Senate.
Ms. Saifuddin asked if Con-Review could link the Fi-Comm into the discussion about changes in the way
the Finance Committee runs. She thought the Finance Committee has definitely taken on that process,
since their job wasn't just to allocate funds from the Greek Opportunity Fund or the Contingency Fund,
but to have conversations. She would be really interested in working with Con-Review on some of these
finance issues. She was excited to have that conversation moving forward, and she thought that was
awesome.
Mr. Pacheco said this was already happening. All financial changes were happening in the Deficit Task
Force.
Ms. Saifuddin said there are some things she hadn't heard about at the Task Force Committee, and she’s
been to all meetings. Mr. Pacheco said they'd bring that up.
Mr. Bellet said that when Sen. Pack was talking, Mr. Bellet said he was looking at the minutes and he was
quite honestly having a little difficulty following along with the procedures. He thought personally that
he would be more engaged in this process if he was at meetings. So he was wondering if they will change
committee meeting times. He asked if they were moving the meeting time up.
Mr. Pacheco said they weren't. Mr. Pack said that Con-Review discussed at the very beginning of the
semester the possibility of making the meetings more inclusive. But just because of scheduling, it didn't
work out. Everyone was available at 9:00.
Mr. Bellet said he was so happy this was happening. But these would be really huge changes, and he
thought a lot of Senators would like to be part of these conversations, which would great. Maybe it was
better that they were happening among seven people and not 20. But he would love to be able to make
this part of the University and External Affairs Committee. He could also schedule a time to meet
individually.
Ms. Pepito said she thought this was the reason why things were changed to have a comprehensive report
every week. She didn't know if other people had suggestions in terms of Con-Review and how it will
communicate reports. She asked if people would be okay with Con-Review taking time during Standing
Committee Reports to really talk about things; and then they could also have conversations off the floor,
and kind of have a process like that. She thought if they do it in Committee Reports, they can try and run
down everything they talked about at the Committee meeting, and then talk to people more off the floor,
if people were interested. There's no way to attend a Con-Review meeting when people have all their
own meetings to attend. If people have any suggestions about making this more transparent, she would
Standing Committee Reports -- Con-Review (cont'd)
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ask them to please let her know. That would include ideas on make Con-Review more transparent in how
it was discussing things, and then getting reports back to the Senate.
Mr. Bellet said his point wasn't an issue of transparency, but of engaging. He would just like to have a
seat at the table. But he knew it was difficult.
Mr. Sayarath said he would suggest that people think of ideas and then speak to the Committee and the
Committee Chair, and possible arrange another time to meet. These changes were pretty big, and it was
better to have more Senators engaged in the issue. If people could think of any other ways to increase
engagement, he would suggest reaching out to the Chair.
Mr. Pack said that as a Committee, they're really cognizant of the fact that they have to reach out to
everybody and keep everyone involved in this process. That was the reason he wrote SB 13 in the way he
did, so all the reforms that Con-Review worked on throughout the semester would come as a report to the
Senate before the winter, so everyone was cognizant of what Con-Review would work on over the Winter
Break, that sort of thing. Beyond that, Senators could rest assured that they had to reach out to everyone,
because By-law amendments require a two-thirds vote to be passed. So Con-Review will work very hard
to make sure everybody was heard and that people were satisfied with the type of work that was going on,
if for no other reason that they need the bill to pass.
Mr. Pacheco said he would also suggest that Con-Review members, Ms. Chen, Mr. Ma, Mr. Huo, Ms.
White, Ms. Pepito, and Mr. Pack, reach out other Senators. And of course, other Senators should reach
out to them. They were fantastic. Mr. Pacheco said that if people couldn't meet with him, they should
meet with one of the other members.
Reporting for the University and External Affairs Committee, Mr. Bellet said the Committee passed SBs
172, as amended; and 175 as amended. He asked Sen. Pack if he could clarify that was the most updated
bill. Mr. Pack said the one that was in the External Affairs minutes was updated in terms of the bill’s
contents, but it was missing several co-sponsors.
Mr. Vertiz said he had the most updated bill. Mr. Sayarath said that if he could send that to the Senate
listserve, that would be great. Mr. Bellet said they would do that.
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II. New Business
PASSED w/ Am- SB 172 - A Bill Commemorating The Coffee Spot
Standing Committee Reports (cont'd)
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--------------Written report from the University and External Affairs Committee meeting of November 26 (cont'd)
PASSED w/Am SB 175 - A Bill to Oppose the Discriminatory Practices of the Salvation Army
and End the Presence of its Donation Containers on the UC Berkeley Campus
End Summary of the University and External Affairs Committee meeting of November 26
----------------------------Begin minutes of the University and External Affairs Committee of November 26
ASUC Senate
University and External Affairs Committee Minutes
Monday November 26, 2012
I.
Approval of the Minutes from Monday, November 12, 2012
9:10 Meeting called to order all senators present
9:56 Minutes approved unanimously
II.
Guest Announcements
III.
ASUC Academic Senate Representative Reports
IV.
Old Business
V.
New Business
SB 172 - A Bill Commemorating The Coffee Spot
9:53 Daley- couldn’t renew bill because of current situation, their lease still had some time on
it,
9:54 Sahana- what makes coffee spot different?
9:55 Daley- only one originally made
9:55 Jason- minor grammatical amendments made,
Bill Passed Unanimously with amendments
SB 175 - A Bill to Oppose the Discriminatory Practices of the Salvation Army and End the
Presence of its Donation Containers on the UC Berkeley Campus
9:19 Jason- is there a Berkeley chapter of salvation army?
9:20 Daley- I’ll see if it exists
9:20 Nolan- we wouldn’t enforce formal ways of collecting for the organization
9:21 Rafi- motion to amend the bill, President Landgraf wants to take out part of writing email
to student body, President Landgraf says sending an email costs money, we shouldn’t spend
that money,
Standing Committee Reports (cont'd)
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--------------Minutes from the University and External Affairs Committee meeting of November 26 (cont'd)
9:22 Nolan- is it something that he wasn’t his name on it
9:23 Jason- we shouldn’t specifically write emails for everything
9:23 Rafi- good compromise put in ASUC website
9:24 Nolan- emails sent regularly,
9:24 Jason- what was thought for putting in the email?
9:25 Nolan- since we think it's such an undercover issue its important to make this issue visible,
important to make this issue visible, we want to impose discriminatory practices of salvation
army not salvation army itself
9:26 Connor (on speaker phone)- cost money, students don’t need to take action on it,
9:27 Nolan- is important that we take action, is important that is something that is actionable, I
wouldn’t be so adamant about this thing, because of particular season
9:28 Connor- I don’t feel comfortable telling people they shouldn’t donate to an organization,
9:28 Nolan- you can send it out on behalf of senate, we don’t have to
9:29 Connor- I don’t think campus wide email will have an impact,
9:30 Nolan- with all level of discomfort, my community is uncomfortable with Salvation Army
bills not being posted on website,
9:30 Connor-personal cost, not tactic that will have the most impact,
9:31 Jason- when is next campus wide email, let’s say we include this in campus wide email,
we would be including in the same email
9:31 Connor- feel uncomfortable saying students should not donate, end game to change that
work behind the scene,
9:33 Nolan- if we’re not opposing that
9:34 Daley- job of president take stance on behalf of student body,
9:35 Jason- both points stand, having this be included in campus wide email anyway
9:36 Jason- how to do feel about next campus wide email?
9:36 Nolan- Connor’s argument amorphous, presence of their bins on campus tacit endorsement of their practices
9:38 Jason-, which associate Vice Chancellor?
9:39 Nolan- to include in next campus email? Comes at time of year when this is a critical
issue, spirit of giving, etc, great way to pinpoint and highlight the issue
9:40 Rafi- is everyone feel comfortable saying don’t donate here,
9:41 Nolan- wording of clause, I’m ok with stand-alone email,
9:45 Nolan- first compromise we sent letter on behalf of senators, on behalf of the senate etc…
just email sent from senate
9:45 Jason- are we going to say other organizations?
9:47 Nolan- we should just provide a list
9:47 Jason- motion on table language “behalf of senate” Passed no objections
9:48 Jason- add language “to provide a list of organizations that don’t discriminate
9:50 Daley- reread with additional amendment
9:51 Jason- consider bills with those amendments
9:51 Jason- move to pass SB 175 with amendments, SB 175 Passed unanimously
VI.
Elected Official Announcements
End minutes of the University and External Affairs Committee of November 26
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Standing Committee Reports (cont'd)
Consent Calendar -- SB 120, In Support of the Immediate Publication of ASUC Senate Bills
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Mr. Deo said he had a couple of questions about SB 175A. Mr. Sayarath said he would suggest that he
pull that bill off the Consent Calendar, if Mr. Deo had a question about the content of the bill. If he had a
question about procedure, he could ask that question at that time.
Mr. Deo said his question was about procedure. Regarding SB 175A, he wasn't sure if student groups
could sponsor a bill. Mr. Pacheco said they could. He didn't know where that rumor started, that student
groups and others couldn't sponsor a bill. As long as there was one sponsor who was an elected official,
anyone the author wanted, then the bill could be submitted. Mr. Deo asked if that was in the By-laws.
Mr. Pack said it was. He also had an opinion from Attorney General Hinh Tran about that, in a conversation they had about SB 64.
CONSENT CALENDAR
The following bills were up for consideration that evening under the Consent Calendar: SBs 169, as
amended; 173, as amended; 120; 154; 174, as amended; 172, as amended; 175, as amended.
Mr. Sayarath asked if there were any bills that Senators wanted to pull from the Consent Calendar.
No bills were removed from the Consent Calendar.
The following bills remained under the Consent Calendar: SBs 169A; 173A; 120; 154; 174A; 172A; and
175A.
A motion to approve the Consent Calendar was made and seconded. THE MOTION TO APPROVE
THE CONSENT CALENDAR PASSED WITH NO OBJECTION:
SB 120; SB 154; SB 169, AS AMENDED; SB 172, AS AMENDED; SB 173, AS AMENDED; SB 174,
AS AMENDED; AND SB 175, AS AMENDED.
The following Resolution, SB 120, was approved under the Consent Calendar and was authored by Mr.
Lieu:
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION OF ASUC SENATE BILLS
WHEREAS, ASUC By-laws, Title XII, Article 1, Section 5, Clause 5, currently read that the ASUC Web
page (AWP) include:
“Copies of all Senate bills for, but not limited to, the current year, both in .doc and .pdf format, with the bills from the current session available in both original and final version.
CC -- SB 120, In Support of the Immediate Publication of ASUC Senate Bills (cont'd)
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RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION OF ASUC SENATE BILLS
(cont'd)
Furthermore, there must be information as to the committee they were committed to and the
current or final status of all bills, to be updated regularly.”; and
WHEREAS, the ASUC By-laws, Title XII, Article 1, Section 6, currently read that:
“Where an item to be made available via the AWP is already made public by other means it
shall be the responsibility of that entity currently responsible for the information’s disbursement to submit a copy to the [Web Master] WM. Otherwise, it shall be the duty of the EVP
to select an entity to be responsible for that information’s submission.”; and
WHEREAS, the ASUC By-laws, Title XII, Article 1, Section 7, currently read that:
“The WM shall be responsible for updating the AWP according to submissions within two
business days of the time of submission. In the event of technical difficulties this period
may be extended to six business days with the approval of the EVP.”; and
WHEREAS, no explicit timeline nor responsible office is outlined by the ASUC By-laws regarding the
publication of ASUC Senate Bills on the AWP; and
WHEREAS, published bills allow for the campus community to be informed of ASUC decisions and the
AWP is the only central resource to fulfill this goal; and
WHEREAS, the AWP does not include any bills passed by the current 2012-2013 ASUC Senate;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the ASUC affirms the importance of having ASUC Senate Bills
regularly published on the AWP for the public.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the ASUC Web master publish bills passed by the 2012-2013 Senate
up to this point within seven business days after the passage of this Resolution.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the ASUC By-laws, Title XII, Article 1, Section 7, be amended to
read:
“a. The WM shall be responsible for updating the AWP according to submissions within
two business days of the time of submission. In the event of technical difficulties this
period may be extended to six business days with the approval of the EVP.
“b. The EVP shall be responsible for submitting copies of all ASUC Senate Bills within two
business days of them being passed out of Senate, at which time the WM shall be
responsible for updating the AWP within two business of submission by the EVP.”
Consent Calendar -- SB 154, In Support of Regular Communication with UC Berkeley’s Newly
Hired Chancellor
-- SB 169, In Support of the Mixed Student Union’s Annual Fall Conference
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The following Resolution, SB 154, was approved under the Consent Calendar and was authored by Ms.
Majd:
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH UC BERKELEY’S NEWLY
HIRED CHANCELLOR
WHEREAS, the UC Berkeley Chancellor appoints a representative to report to the ASUC, according the
ASUC Constitution, Article III, Section 4, Clause B:
“The Chancellor's Representative shall be appointed by the Chancellor of the Berkeley campus and shall serve at the pleasure of the Chancellor.”; and
WHEREAS, no further relationship with the UC Berkeley Chancellor is outlined by the ASUC By-laws;
and
WHEREAS, the ASUC Preamble reads:
“We, the students of the Berkeley campus of the University of California, as an autonomous
constituency of the University community, do provide by this Constitution a student government committed to effective student participation in all areas of student concern, that we
may, through independent action and in concert with other constituencies of the University
community, participate in the formation and the improvement of educational programs, protect full freedom of assembly and expression in the University community, articulate and
represent the student interest in the governance of the campus, provide services and coordinate activities for students, and advance our common interests and concerns as students and
as citizens, do hereby ordain and establish this Constitution.”; and
WHEREAS, the ASUC is committed to establishing a collaborative relationship when the newly hired
UC Berkeley Chancellor during this academic year;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the ASUC affirms the importance of having the UC Berkeley
Chancellor act in concert with the ASUC Senate and vice versa.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the ASUC Executive Vice President send a letter to the new Chancellor once she or he is appointed inviting her or him to meet with the Senate in person at
least once per semester, in addition to the duties of the Chancellor’s Representative.
The following Resolution, SB 169, as amended, was approved under the Consent Calendar and was
authored by Tia Weinberg and Jason Huynh and was co-sponsored by Ms. Pepito and Ms. Majd:
CC -- SB 169, In Support of the Mixed Student Union’s Annual Fall Conference (cont'd)
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RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE MIXED STUDENT UNION’S ANNUAL FALL
CONFERENCE
WHEREAS, MSU is a 16th-year Student Activity Group (SAG) that is a core member of bridges that
promotes the interaction and expression of ethnic identities and establishes unity by building
an inclusive community that explores mixed “race” experiences; and
WHEREAS, MSU initiates partnerships with campus organizations and other marginalized communities;
and
WHEREAS, MSU increases awareness and education through dialogue of multi-ethnic issues, ultimately
fostering personal growth and empowerment; and
WHEREAS, MSU is the only student organization on the UC Berkeley campus devoted to the mixed
race, multi-ethnic/multicultural, and the transracial adoptee community, providing a fun,
safe, and comfortable environment for people of mixed heritage or those who are interested;
and
WHEREAS, MSU was allocated $877.49 during spring budgeting for the 2012-2013 year; and
WHEREAS, MSU’s allocated budget is spent on other programs and events that happen throughout the
year such as:
And;
WHEREAS, the Fall Conference is an annual event sponsored by MSU that invites speakers to facilitate
workshops revolving around issues about mixed race and identity for students from universities across California; and
WHEREAS, the Fall Conference creates a safe space for college students to begin conversations that they
bring back to their campuses and respective Mixed Student Unions; and
WHEREAS, the Fall Conference is in its 6th year and has continuously evolved, touching and bringing
together a myriad of people by utilizing and engaging in common interest in the mixed
community; and
WHEREAS, this year MSU’s Fall Conference includes speakers from universities across California as
well as graduate students; and
WHEREAS, volunteers and artists support the Conference and its cause by performing free of charge,
except for our Keynote Speaker, who participates with honorarium; and
WHEREAS, the projected expenses for the Annual Fall Conference are outlined in the following line
item budget: Total amount, $2,272.00; Total requested, $119.00;
CC -- SB 169, In Support of the Mixed Student Union’s Annual Fall Conference (cont'd)
-- SB 172, In Support of Commemorating The Coffee Spot
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RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE MIXED STUDENT UNION’S ANNUAL FALL
CONFERENCE (cont'd)
WHEREAS, the Fall Conference theme for this year is Mapping Out Mixed Identity, exploring how individual mixed identity is influenced by the individual’s origin, ethnically as well as physically, and how their identity has grown; and
WHEREAS, MSU received $250 from the Multicultural Fund for the Fall Conference; and
WHEREAS, MSU received $326 from the Co-Curricular Category of the Student Opportunity Fund for
the Fall Conference; and
WHEREAS, MSU received $300 from the bridges Community Fund for the Fall Conference, $150 from
RAZA and $150 from REACH; and
WHEREAS, MSU received $200 from Jonathan Poullard, the Dean of Students, for the Fall Conference;
and
WHEREAS, MSU expects to receive $600 from Lisa Walker and the Multicultural Student Development
Office for the Fall Conference; and
WHEREAS, MSU expects to receive $511 from the Ethnic Studies Fifth Account for the Fall
Conference;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the ASUC recognize MSU’s Fall Conference as an ASUC-sponsored event.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the ASUC Senate allocate $119.00 to MSU from the Senate Contingency fund for the Fall Conference.
The following Resolution, SB 172, as amended in committee, was approved under the Consent Calendar
and was authored by Mr. Kadifa:
RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE COFFEE SPOT
WHEREAS, The Coffee Spot, owned and run by Haitham Alloun, has served Berkeley students in Lower
Sproul since 1987; and
WHEREAS, The Coffee Spot has been a source of joy and comfort for many hungry members of the UC
Berkeley community; and
WHEREAS, The Coffee Spot employees have always been generous and welcoming; and
Consent Calendar -- SB 172, In Support of Commemorating The Coffee Spot (cont'd)
-- SB 173, In Support of K to College
-- SB 174, In Support of the Cooperative Opportunity Fund
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RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE COFFEE SPOT (cont'd)
WHEREAS, many members of the Berkeley community have expressed their disappointment at The Coffee Spot’s closure after 26 years;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the ASUC thanks Haitham Alloun and the employees of The
Coffee Spot for their valuable service to Berkeley.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the ASUC send a copy of this bill to the address below:
Haitham Alloun’s contact information: 3120 Barrymore Pl., Concord, CA 94518.
The following Resolution, SB 173, as amended in committee, was approved under the Consent Calendar
and was authored by Ms. White and David Blanchard:
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF K TO COLLEGE
WHEREAS, K to College was founded in 2008 by a handful of UC Berkeley students and alumni; and
WHEREAS, K to College started distributing school supplies at the South Berkeley YMCA, and have
since expanded to deliver supplies throughout the Bay Area; and
WHEREAS, K to College is now California non-profit public benefit corporation that provides tangible
resources to low-income students in need. In 2010, K to College distributed $12,000,000
worth of school and dental supplies to more than 170,000 students; and
WHEREAS, the student group K to College has supported the efforts of the non-profit; and
WHEREAS, the student group has organized many school assembly supply drives and united multiple
campus communities by doing so; and
WHEREAS, K to College has an assembly drive planned for December 1st and 2nd in Pauley Ballroom;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that K to College be recognized as a fourth-year SISG.
The following Resolution, SB 174, as amended in committee, In Support of the Cooperative Opportunity
Fund, was approved under the Consent Calendar. The amended version was unavailable at the time the
minutes were printed and will be in future minutes.
Consent Calendar -- SB 175, To Oppose the Discriminatory Practices of the Salvation Army and - 34 End the Presence of Its Donation Containers on the UC Berkeley Campus
The following Resolution, SB 175, as amended in committee, was approved under the Consent Calendar
and was authored by Matthew Enger and was co-sponsored by Mr. Pacheco, Ms. Pepito, Mr. Lieu, Mr.
Pacheco, Mr. Vertiz, Mr. Jacobo, Ms. Majd, Felipe Flores, Caitlin Quinn, Elizabeth Hennes, Mahana
Barbadillo, Travis Dunlop, Queer Alliance and Resource Center (QARC), Young Queers United for
Empowerment (YQUE!), Out 4 Business (O4B), Cal Queer and Asian, Cal Berkeley Democrats Executive Board, Zawadi, Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (OSTEM), Queer Straight Alliance (QSA), Mr. Bellet, Mr. Huo, Mr. Lurie, and Ms. Rajasekar:
RESOLUTION TO OPPOSE THE DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES OF THE SALVATION ARMY
AND END THE PRESENCE OF ITS DONATION CONTAINERS ON THE UC BERKELEY
CAMPUS
WHEREAS, the ASUC is constitutionally enjoined from sponsoring student groups that discriminate in
their methods of recruitment and membership on the basis of sexual orientation, among
other things (ASUC Constitution, Article VI, Section 7c); and
WHEREAS, Salvation Army church services, including charity services, are available only to people
“who accept and abide by the Salvation Army's doctrine and discipline”, which excludes
homosexuality, according to http://salvationarmyusa.org; and
WHEREAS, the Salvation Army is a recognized, tax-exempt religious organization under federal tax laws
(http://www.usc.salvationarmy.org/usc/WWW_USC.nsf/0/59E5F200647E2C548625770600
790956/$file/TSATaxExemptionApplicationInformation.pdf); and
WHEREAS, Dan Savage, a prominent gay rights activist, has reported that Salvation Army homeless
shelters and soup kitchens discriminate against gay families and couples by refusing to offer
charity services to both partners at the same time, effectively banishing one to the street
before giving services to the other (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/dont-donate-to-thesalvation-army/Content?oid=11182500); and
WHEREAS, Salvation Army policies of discrimination contributed in part to the death of Jennifer Gale, a
47-year-old transgender woman in Austin, Texas, as reported in an email from Equality
Texas:
“The Salvation Army (the only shelter in town that takes in women) would not let her in
there unless she was grouped with the men (which includes sleeping with, and showering
with, other homeless men). They would make her use her male birth name and completely
disregard, and disrespect, her identity as a trans-woman”; and
WHEREAS, “in 2004, the Salvation Army threatened to close all their soup kitchens in New York City to
protest the City's decision to require all vendors and charities doing business with the City to
adhere to all civil rights laws”
(http://www.bilerico.com/2011/11/why_you_shouldnt_donate_to_the_salvation_army_bell.p
hp); and
CC -- SB 175, To Oppose the Discriminatory Practices of the Salvation Army and End the
Presence of Its Donation Containers on the UC Berkeley Campus (cont'd)
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RESOLUTION TO OPPOSE THE DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES OF THE SALVATION ARMY
AND END THE PRESENCE OF ITS DONATION CONTAINERS ON THE UC BERKELEY
CAMPUS (cont'd)
WHEREAS, in 2001, the Salvation Army lobbied the Bush Administration to change the way it would
distribute $24 billion in grants and tax deductions by urging that the White House deny
funding to cities and states that have non-discrimination laws protecting LGBT people
(http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/12/the-salvation-army-ringing-anti-gay-bells-this-holiday-season/); and
WHEREAS, in Salvation Story: Salvationist Handbook of Doctrine, an official publication of the Salvation Army, the organization asserts that practicing homosexuals “deserve to die”
(http://theweek.com/article/index/229796/gays-should-die-a-timeline-of-the-salvationarmys-anti-gay-flare-ups); and
WHEREAS, Major Andrew Craibe, the Australian Salvation Army spokesman, affirmed the aforementioned position that queer people deserve to die on an Australian radio program in June
2012, stating “we have an alignment to the scriptures, but that’s our belief”
(http://theweek.com/article/index/229796/gays-should-die-a-timeline-of-the-salvationarmys-anti-gay-flare-ups); and
WHEREAS, Salvation Army donation collection containers are located on UC Berkeley campus property, including in the Unit 1 undergraduate residential complex which is operated by the
Residential & Student Services Programs (RSSP); and
WHEREAS, University of California Regents Policy 4402 prohibits discrimination by UC “Regents,
administration, faculty, student governments, University-owned residence halls, and programs sponsored by the University”
(http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/policies/4402.html); and
WHEREAS, Cal is home to students of a multitude of backgrounds, including queer students, who may
take offense to the presence of collection containers operated by a discriminatory religious
organization in their places of living; and
WHEREAS, students may not be aware that their donations to the Salvation Army may be used in part to
hire lobbyists to oppose sexual orientation and gender identity non-discrimination laws, or
that the Salvation Army has a history of opposing equal civil rights; and
WHEREAS, allowing the Salvation Army to collect donations on campus is a passive form of financial
assistance, that empowers the organization to spend the money it raises here in order to discriminate and advocate discrimination against queer people; and
WHEREAS, Section 11135 of the California Government Code prohibits discrimination on the basis on
sexual orientation “in any program or activity that is conducted, operated, or administered by
the state or by any state agency, is funded directly by the state, or receives any financial
CC -- SB 175, To Oppose the Discriminatory Practices of the Salvation Army and End the
Presence of Its Donation Containers on the UC Berkeley Campus (cont'd)
Report from the ASUC Representative to the Cal Alumni Association
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RESOLUTION TO OPPOSE THE DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES OF THE SALVATION ARMY
AND END THE PRESENCE OF ITS DONATION CONTAINERS ON THE UC BERKELEY
CAMPUS (cont'd)
assistance from the state” (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/sen/sb_14011450/sb_1441_bill_20060828_chaptered.html);
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the ASUC Senate opposes the discriminatory practices of the
Salvation Army and the presence of its donation collection containers on campus property;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the ASUC President and Executive Vice President write a letter,
with this bill attached, to the Chancellor and the Associate Vice Chancellor in order to:
(1) Express the ASUC Senate’s disapproval of the presence of Salvation Army donation
containers on campus;
(2) Request that the campus Administration and RSSP revoke the licenses permitting the
Salvation Army to operate on campus property effective immediately;
(3) Request that the RSSP invite Goodwill or another non-discriminatory charitable organization to bring donation containers to campus so that students continue to have the
option to donate to charity;
(4) Request that the campus Administration and the RSSP refrain from doing business with
the Salvation Army in the future.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the President and Executive Vice President write an email to the student body, on behalf of the ASUC Senate, informing them of the decision to oppose the discriminatory practices of the Salvation Army, to ask students to choose to donate to organizations that do not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, and to provide a list of
such organizations.
Mr. Sayarath said at that time that they’d hear a report from the ASUC rep to the California Alumni
Association.
Report from the ASUC Representative to the California Alumni Association
Julia Gettle said the Cal Alumni Association meeting was held a week ago last Friday. A bunch of things
were covered that don't directly involve students and that don't directly involve the Senate, so she
wouldn't waste the Senate’s time on those. But there were three major things she’d report on.
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First of all, Ms. Gettle said the Alumni Association is redirecting towards a greater focus on networking
opportunities for alumni. With that in mind, they are starting a new initiative, the Berkeley Professional
Network. It will replace the defunct Career Services that mostly provided sort of one-on-one counseling
for alumni or for graduating seniors who were job seeking or otherwise seeking connections. The Berkeley Professional Network is, instead, designed to boost collaboration between alumni and graduating
seniors, particularly those in different fields that don't have networking opportunities provided by student
groups or other organizations they were members of during their time at Cal. The beauty of this University is in its diversity, in both fields as well as in backgrounds. So this initiative will try to go forward
with that. It's completely new, and the Alumni Association was starting this from the ground up. They're
hiring a new director to coordinate it. They're just starting to get the foundation laid next year for more
development in future years.
As for the second issue the Alumni Association discussed, Ms. Gettle said they did a lot of work on the
budget for 2013. There's been a continuing issue with the Alumni Association in that first of all, they
have no reserve fund, and they've been continually taking funds out of the Life Membership Fund, which
was supposed to fund most of their scholarships. So the more they take out of that, the less it can grow in
terms of interest rates, and all of that. So the Alumni Association is trying to revamp its previous policy
of contributing to the Life Membership Fund instead of just constantly taking from it. In future years,
they hope to establish a new reserve fund, but that wasn't on the agenda for next year, as she understood.
Ms. Gettle said there was also a lot of talk about the Chancellor at the meeting, but others could talk about
that. Prop. 30 was discussed as well, and she wanted to congratulate the students for their work on that.
Mr. Sayarath called for any questions.
Mr. Lieu said that when the Alumni Association takes out funding from the Life Membership Fund, if
that jeopardizes the ability of the Cal Alumni Association to give more scholarships in the future. He
asked if that was what she was saying. Ms. Gettle said that in the very, very long term, that was the case.
However, taking monies out of that fund was a way of establishing new scholarships. Seeing no other
questions, Mr. Sayarath said he would like to thank her.
Report from the Academic Affairs Vice President
Ms. Gavello said she had some exciting news and had some things to pass around. Their new Web site is
launching during Dead Week, thinkplace.berkeley.edu. This is the online resource for study spaces that
she’s been talking about. She had some advertising to distribute and to show the Senate. Advertising will
be posted everywhere. It will launch on Monday, so Senators should make sure to tell everyone. If they
find themselves cramped in Main Stacks, or Moffitt isn't really their thing, there are about 60 different
options for students to choose from.
Also, Ms. Gavello said she was officially doing a DE-Cal next semester for the Student Commission on
the Future of the Library. She’d pass around the syllabus. It's her baby that she’s been working on. If
Senators had anything they wanted to edit, or if they wanted to add to the course she’s facilitating, she
was completely open to that, and was very excited about this.
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In other news, Ms. Gavello said she has a meeting on Thursday with Claudia Covello, of the Tang Center.
They'll discuss mental health and pair together, and hopefully do a joint ASUC/Tang Center CACSSF
application for more counseling, particularly for walk-in counseling. If there's anything else people want
to bring up, she would ask them to please do so.
Ms. Gavello said she also has a standing meeting the EVCP George Breslauer next week. If there's anything people wanted her to tell him, she would put that invitation out there.
Ms. Gavello said the last Thinkplace Committee meeting is on Thursday. They're dividing up into subcommittees and finalizing the text of the Web site, going over finishing touches, and resizing pictures.
She took a look at the Web site, and it looks good. It's almost ready to launch, so Monday will be a really
exciting day.
Ms. Gavello said the Undergraduate-Graduate Mentorship Program DE-Cal for the Spring Semester had
an info session last week and they filled up the entire room, with exactly half grads and half undergrads.
There's a great balance of people applying for the spots, and she couldn't be happier about that. Applications are out. If people are interested in applying, or if they knew anybody who was interested in applying, applications are on the ASUC Web site, she believed, and could also be found at the UGMP site.
Ms. Gavello said they met with Ms. Navab and Gordon Hoople, of the GA, and they're officially making
a joint ASUC/GA Web site to streamline the way Academic Senate representatives will disclose information. This is something she and Ms. Pepito talked about at the beginning of the semester. It's a big
win for the Academic Senate and for the students, because now students will be able to see exactly what
was going on within the Academic Senate and with faculty committees. And they will also do that with
administrative committees. Before committee minutes are approved, they could get some student notes
sponsored by chairs of committees, to go online in a live stream, so people could keep updated with what
was going on when things were happening. The GA is funding the Web master for this, but will still
allow the site to be called a joint GA/ASUC production, which was great.
Ms. Gavello said they also met with the Career Center, and they will have a second ASUC AAVP-sponsored Career Fair, dedicated specifically for freshmen and sophomores. She knew there's a scarcity with
internships, so she was looking forward to that.
Ms. Gavello said she’s a part of the Grants Committee for the Center for Equity and Inclusion and they
decided to award eight groups, she believed, $100,000 in awards. The theme was K-through-12 education, promoting higher education for transfer student education, and promoting students to go to Berkeley.
They awarded some really good things, which she was really excited about.
Also, Ms. Gavello said her birthday is December 9. She called for any questions. Mr. Sayarath called for
any questions.
Ms. Pepito asked if she could clarify the money she just talked about, and how it was divided among the
different groups. Ms. Gavello said that each member of the Innovative Grants Committee is from a different community, and she was the ASUC representative, appointed by Mr. Landgraf. They ranked each
application on certain levels for things like sustainability, innovation, and a few other things, like working
with other groups to promote their student events. They place some applications on the top and some at
the bottom. And then they vote on them, sort of like the Senate does with the Consent Calendar. The
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ones they like the most are approved, and then talked about all the middle ones. They made sure no one
liked the lower ones that people ranked. But once they started to talk about the proposals the Committee
had initially ranked lowest, the Committee kept bumping them up because they realized they were really
good for the amount of money that was requested. The Committee met for two and a half hours.
Ms. Pepito asked if she knew which groups were awarded. Ms. Gavello said she didn't, because they just
got officially approved by Vice Chancellor Basri, and were just getting sent to the Committee. That week
the Committee sent in its recommendations. They haven't officially received notice of the awards. Ms.
Pepito asked if the groups, then weren't known. Ms. Gavello said that was correct. Ms. Pepito said she
just wanted to know how her group did.
Ms. White asked when the Web site will be up for study spaces. Ms. Gavello said that will be on
Monday.
Mr. Pacheco asked how old Ms. Gavello will be on December 9. Ms. Gavello said she’ll be 20.
Mr. Deo said that people have been coming to him saying they would be most likely to study if phone
chargers were available, and asked if that would be possible. Ms. Gavello said it definitely would be.
She’d send an e-mail. Seeing no other questions, Mr. Sayarath said he would like to thank her.
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Weekly Exec Report
AAVP Office
11/15-11/28
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Meeting with Claudia Covello of the Tang Center tomorrow to discuss mental health and work on
combining an ASUC/GA/Tang Center application to CACSSF for more mental health counselors
-- specifically for walk-in counseling. Let me know if there are any other issues that need to be
discussed and I will bring them up with her.

Standing meeting with George Breslaur, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, next week (if
anyone has any agenda items they want me to bring up let me know!)
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Thinkplace
o
Last Committee Meeting is tomorrow!
o
We are dividing up into three subcommittees to focus on outreach, pictures, and text of the
site. Site will be released on Monday, December 2nd.
o
Site will feature almost 70 locations on and around campus!
o
Keep a look out for the release
o
The UGMP DE-Cal for the Spring Semester had its info-session on 11/15. We completely
filled up the room with almost exactly half undergrads and half graduate students! Applications are out for the DE-Cal and will be on the ASUC Web site.
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o
We met with Bahar Navab, Karl Nader, and Gordon Hoople of the GA, and are officially
making a joint GA and ASUC Web site to stream Academic Senate and administrative
committee meeting notes from grad and undergrad representatives! I got permission from
the Academic Senate Chair to post brief updates of certain meetings before the official
meeting notes are approved online! This way, students have a transparent way of seeing
what is happening in these committees. The GA is funding Warren McQuinn to be the
Web master for the site, while still maintaining ASUC sponsorship.
o
We met with the Career Center and are having a second ASUC-sponsored Career Fair for
freshmen and sophomores this February.
o
Met with Elizabeth from the Center of Equity and Inclusion Innovation Grants and
awarded $100,000 to different students and student groups promoting K1-12 education
towards getting into college.
My birthday is December 9th, so we should all do something!
Top 12 Accomplishments of the Semester from the AAVP Office
I would like to thank my Deputies, Directors, interns, and amazing Chief-of-Staff for all of their hard
work and dedication this semester. Thanks to you all, we have been able to do all of these amazing things
for the student body!
AAVP OFFICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. Installed a phone charger rental system in Moffitt/Mainstacks, and continuing expansion into
Bechtel/other libraries.
2. Created a website called "ThinkPlace"(thinkplace.berkeley.edu) that is launching this Monday. The
site will have every study space on and around campus that students can utilize during finals week.
3. SLC Open 24-hours a day for the next 3 years due to CACSSF Funding.
4. Changed campus appointments to be a smoother process for Academic Senate.
5. Created the first ever student Academic Senate body that meets every month to discuss issues relevant
to their committees and report updates to the AAVP Office. We have gotten approval to start making a
Web site through my office and the CAVP to streamline a Web site with student updates from these
committees and live blog posts.
6. We are giving the first ever RISE Scholarship this spring (which has been amended to include AB 540
students). This has been in the By-laws for the AAVP, but has NEVER been done yet until this year.
We are getting $5,000 from the Berkeley Scholarship Foundation and giving out up to 16 scholarships
to AB 540 students.
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7. We publicized AAVP grants through Facebook, workshops, and flyering and tabling on sproul. This
amount of publicity has never been done before for ASUC grants. We also used a minimal amount of
funding for this.
8. Our Grants Deputy (didn't even have one of these last year) sits in on Fi-Comm meetings to ensure
there is no overlap, and note to Fi-Comm if there is any and where. We were able to secure funding,
also for students who applied last year who didn't get their money after they were accepted for the
grant because last year’s Directors stopped doing their work. These students are now currently applying for their reimbursements. :)
9. We have held a Career Exploration Workshop hosting student peer advisors from the Career Center,
encouraging students to explore different majors to accomplish any career they are interested in, and
encouraged applications to externships to explore different options.
10. Bookstore Adoption lists are almost 10% higher than they were this time last year! Thanks to my
amazing Bookstore Director who has worked with his intern to e-mail personally every professor to
submit textbook adoptions to save students money on their textbooks.
11. I am creating a DE-Cal called the “Student Commission on the Future of the Library” and acting as
the facilitator. This DE-Cal (sponsored by the Chair of the Faculty Commission) is analyzing the
important implications of the library and its current use for students, and where we see the library
playing a role in student lives in the next 10-20 years. We will be having various speakers, and will
be going out into our communities to see how our fellow peers use the libraries. We will be submitting a proposal to the faculty Commission and the Chancellor asking for up to 3 million dollars in
budgeted student needs, and ways to get the funding for it.
12. Jan Crowder -- “The best AAVP the University has seen since I’ve been here!”
-Pretty awesome!!!
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Report from the Student Advocate Office
Ms. Suh said she’d give an update from the meeting she had with the Financial Aid administrator. As she
mentioned earlier, the recurring issue with financial aid is that students get tossed a lot between Billing
and Payment Services, and Financial Aid. The way that will be resolved will be to have a one-stop shop
center that was being built. That will alleviate some of the issues. In the mean time, the SAO will be
there with caseworkers to help out with any miscommunication or lack of communication between the
two departments. The SAO will facilitate that process, as the Office has done in previous years.
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Just for a reminder about RRR Week, technically, according to the Academic Senate, professors are not
allowed to assign final exams during Reading Week. If that occurs for a Senator’s course, or for a friend,
or anyone they knew, and a student had an issue with this policy not being followed, Senators can refer
them to the SAO. The office has gotten a couple of cases of that nature, and she would like to thank Senators for spreading the word.
Finally, Ms. Suh said that every semester the SAO has finals snacks, where they give out hot chocolate,
coffee, and doughnut holes in front of Moffitt. That will occur Friday and Saturday evening, from 7 p.m.
to about 10 p.m., right in front of Moffitt. Senators can swing by for a snack. They also give out amazing
pens, and provide free and confidential advice for any student who needs it. Mr. Sayarath called for any
questions.
Mr. Lee asked about professors having things due besides final exams. Ms. Suh said that even if it's a
paper or a project, if it's meant to replace a final, that was against the rule. But if it's just a project that
happens to be the last assignment, then it was in line with the rule.
Ms. Pepito asked how often the SAO deals with complaints about professors. When they had Senate
Training, Ms. Suh talked about going to the Ombuds office to complain when professors were out of line.
She asked how often the SAO deals with that and how much the office could help. Ms. Suh said the role
of the Ombuds office and the role of the SAO are completely different. The Ombuds office is completely
neutral, meaning it will not take the side of the professor or the student. The Ombudsperson is simply
there as a mediator, pointing students to resources that are available to them. The SAO, on the other
hand, actually advocates for students. So when there is a dispute between a student and a professor, the
SAO would help the student directly. That could involve preparing for a meeting or attending a meeting
with a professor along with the student. The SAO actually gets a lot of those cases. She didn't have the
number off the top of her head, but that could especially apply with plagiarism cases, or maybe when a
student had extenuating medical or other circumstances, and the professor wasn't being as understanding
they could be, such as in giving an extension or agreeing with the request that the student has made. So
they do deal with those cases.
Because the SAO is like a third-party, caseworkers could say things that students couldn't say directly to a
professor. So the SAO acts in a meditative role. But what they're really doing is advocating for the student. If things are terribly wrong, the SAO will go to the department chair; and there are formal procedures for grievances and other things. Those are some of the ways that they resolve those issues. If Senators know of anyone who was having a personal conflict with a professor, and it was negatively affecting
the student’s performance, or affecting their grade, or anything like that, that person should definitely
come to the SAO and talk to them.
Mr. Lieu said that regarding the one-stop shop, and fusing together, so to speak, different departments, he
asked if there was any update as to whether or not those workers will retain their jobs. He brought this up
previously, when Ms. Suh mentioned it about the workers. Ms. Suh said the way the one-stop shop center
operates is that it's not a creation of a new department, per se, but it's rather just people who have the
knowledge of BPS and Financial Aid. So that was the case, as far as she was aware. She didn't have
updates concretely, and would follow-up on that. But as far as she was aware, there will be no layoffs as
a result of Financial Aid and BPS being marketed as one department under the one-stop-shop center.
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Mr. Sayarath said the way they phrased it is that it's only front-line stuff, so only people who work with
students directly will go into this one-stop shop. And some new people will be hired for front-line service
for both the Registrar and Financial Aid, and they'll put those staff there. Some of them are going to the
back office. As far as he knew there aren’t any layoffs.
Mr. Lieu asked if there were no job changes. Mr. Sayarath said there are some changes, but they were
promotions, because people were transferring across departments.
Ms. Suh said there’s also been a lot of turnover in the Financial Aid and Residency Departments. She
was sure that was the case with the Registrar’s office as well. They're going to have a new Financial Aid
Director. She didn't know if the person has officially assumed that role already, but in general, there's
been a lot of turnover. So if there are any changes in terms of personnel occupying a different role, it was
probably due to turnover rather than due to layoffs. That was her understanding. Mr. Lieu said that was
as opposed to people going out of their own positions. Ms. Suh said that was correct. Seeing no other
questions, Mr. Sayarath said he would like to thank her.
Report from the Executive Vice President
Mr. Sayarath said he sent out a Semester Overview, but he wouldn't go over that. He just had a few
things that the office has been doing the past couple of weeks. He’d start with space, because that was
always a hot topic issue. Ms. Finn kind of also touched on this.
Mr. Sayarath said he didn't know if the Senate meeting will be held in Eshleman Hall next week. He
wasn't sure yet and didn't know what the plan was for closing it, and what the conversation is, such as
with the UCPD. But he was preparing for that. He was sorry they had to use the Madrone Room. It
wasn't the greatest room. It was kind of weird being so far away from all of them, visibly, but it was fine
and they'd make it work. They all knew this was going to happen with Lower Sproul redevelopment. So
props to Senators and their flexibility. He was excited about that, he’d guess.
Mr. Sayarath said that for some interesting news, the GA Officers and government section will move into
114A Hearst Gym. So they'll be really close to Senators and Senators could hang out with them. She saw
Ms. Navab there earlier, and they already started to talk about how they'll make the space better. So that
will be cool.
Mr. Sayarath said that past couple of weeks has been pretty crazy, since construction was fast approaching. He was trying to tie up all the loose ends with Eshleman that still had to do with student space. An
example was the Senate Chamber tables, and figuring out what to do with them. He was thinking about
selling them or giving it to salvage.
As for the plan for the future for where the Senate will be seated, and where they'll meet, stuff like that,
from January to February, they'll be in some kind of weird surge spaces in the residence halls. He was
really sorry about that, and it was the only space they could find, since Anna Head won't be ready yet.
And then from February to the end of the year, they'll be in Anna Head, which will be great. The thing
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about Anna Head, though, is that it's a multipurpose space, and will be used for events, since the Auxiliary needed to generate revenue while it was going through surge. In addition, Anna Head will be practice and performance space. So they needed to have flexible tables. So he said they would use folding
tables and put tablecloths on top of them and make them look nicer. He hoped that was okay with everyone. But once again, they needed to be flexible. That was his idea. If Senators have a problem with that,
they should let him know, and they'd figure out another solution. But he didn't have any plans for anything else. And then, in the new Eshleman, they won't need any furniture because the furniture will all be
built in. That will be great for those Senates.
Mr. Sayarath said that as for reallocations of space, and switching everyone around, notices will be sent
out really soon. Briana Mullen met with the Surge Advisory Committee. If people have any problems
they should let them know, but Mr. Sayarath said he thought things were set. There are still some groups
that were still asking for space, and they'd have to figure that out next semester. But Mr. Sayarath said
they want to keep moving forward with getting these allocations set.
Mr. Sayarath said he might have a solution for BicyCal and its surge space. He talked to Abram Hardin,
and what they came up with was trying to deal with it within the ASUC’s own footprint, because the
project was getting too close and was still under-budget. So they could still figure out solutions. Mr.
Sayarath said that one solution he had for BicyCal was a kind of storage unit, right next to the Pacific
Film Archive. It's not really a storage unit. If any of them were interested in that they should let him
know. He needed to offer that solution to BicyCal, and otherwise they could have a cage. But he didn't
really have any options left.
Mr. Sayarath said he also needed to surge the materials in the Senate Chamber Antechambers. That
includes all the stuff from the Elections Council. He needed to figure out how to do that, and that’s what
he’ll be working on next week, during Dead Week. He’ll also try to figure out the insurance claim process for student groups whose stuff was lost.
Mr. Sayarath said that Ms. Finn will fix the ASUC’s custodial services. After he talked to her, she was
very much on board with fixing that situation for HFA and for Hearst Gym as well.
Mr. Sayarath said they're surging the Open Computing Facility servers and the archives, and then he
thought Eshleman will be pretty much done after that. And then they could have the Free Days. It was
supposed to be that Friday and Saturday, but they'll postpone it another week because the building was
closed until Sunday, supposedly. So people should looked forward to Free Day next Friday and Saturday.
Mr. Sayarath said that was all the stuff he had for space.
For Student Resources, Mr. Sayarath said they're just kind of marketing publicity and resources, stuff like
that, for the student organizations. If groups were interested in helping or in getting graphic design help,
or helping groups with that, that was something to keep in mind. Mr. Sayarath said the EVP office was
also helping out the Office of the President with Welcome Week and will help coordinate the spring
Calapalooza, which they'll figure out as it comes along.
For Internal, Mr. Sayarath said they're holding an All ASUC bonding party. People are familiar with
“Secret Santas,” and they'll do a “Secret Snowflake.” He was really excited about that. They're
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exchanging gifts and the EVP office will bond. That was really exciting since they haven't had a chance
to do that because they've been so busy.
Regarding the Mentorship Program, Mr. Sayarath said that if Senators were interested in being a mentor,
he would ask them to please reply to Taylor Fugere’s e-mail. Also, if Senators will be taking the DE-Cal
for one unit, they should make sure to sign up for that as well. It will be a great DE-Cal.
In Finance, the Perspectives fundraiser at the House of Curries went really well. Also, he went to a
presentation from the Eat Well Berkeley Catering Program to prepare for Lower Sproul. It calls for proposals on Thursday for real estate service people who replied to the call for proposal for future Lower
Sproul spaces to come to campus. The CSSB’s Business Development Committee will hear them out and
then choose one, write the contract, and get that all set up for when Lower Sproul is done.
For Perspectives, Mr. Sayarath said they're starting their round of meetings with administrators to get
funding from them.
For Projects, International Thanksgiving went super well. There were over 100 students there, and Crossroads was really helpful. Cal Dining got back to him and thanked the ASUC for hosting it with them. It
was cool, and it was a great program. He called for any questions.
Ms. Pepito said that for next week, she wanted to give him a heads-up that the community members will
probably be coming out and will probably be filling the room. When he figures out what space the Senate
will meet in, he should know that space will be needed for the community people who will be coming.
Even Heller Lounge would be fine. Mr. Sayarath said he agreed that the Madrone Room wasn't working.
Ms. White said that for the DE-Cal, she recalled that at the beginning of the year he said Senators could
get 1 unit for being a Senator. She asked if Senators had to go to the DE-Cal classes. Mr. Sayarath said
they didn't, but interns would have to go to the class to get credit.
Ms. Saifuddin asked if there was any progress being made on the meditation space. Mr. Sayarath said he
forgot to talk about that in his report. The campus wasn't helpful. The office tried to reach out to other
departments, but they weren't helpful either, because the timeline was so short. His solution was to
change the California Conference Room into a daytime meditation space. So from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. it
would be a meditation space, and after that, a meeting space. Students don't use it until the evening. The
plan was to have the Secretariat staff change the room around when they first come in to work. They’d
change the table there to some sort of folding table. They'll put all the tables and chairs to the side in the
morning, and then at 6 p.m., when the Secretariat leaves, they'll put the tables back up. That was the idea,
and the only solution he had, trying to solve the question of the meditation room within the ASUC’s own
space. He didn't have any other solution. He was going to touch base with Salih Muhammad to see if this
would be okay with him.
Ms. Saifuddin said it sounded great. People were worried they wouldn't have any space. But to have
something that was central and close to other spaces was great. She really appreciated all the work being
done. Mr. Sayarath said they'd figure it out.
Mr. Bellet said that a few weeks ago Mr. Sayarath talked about Perspectives and getting CACSSF money,
and asked if he had an update on that. Mr. Sayarath said it hasn't made that much progress yet. Last
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week he talked about it and said the holdup was Cal Performances and why it was charging student
organizations so much. Ms. Navab and Mr. Landgraf are reaching out to the Chancellor to see if he could
pull some strings for the students. Mr. Sayarath said he didn't know how that conversation was going,
and he was waiting to hear back.
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Executive Summary
ASUC Office of the Executive Vice President
Justin Sayarath
As the Fall 2012 Semester comes to an end, I have provided a short report consisting of the highlights of
my term as Executive Vice President. Please feel free to email me with further questions.
1. Chancellors Advisory Committee on Student Service Fees
a. Purpose: To allocate student services fees
b. Main Goal: To ensure that student organizations interested in receiving student service fees were
better served and also to ensure that this money went to fund the need of student life during
Lower Sproul transition
2. Campus Committee on the Removal of Architectural Barriers
a. Purpose: To review code issues and problems that prohibit capital improvements and construction
b. Main Goal: To ensure that the student voice is represented on this committee to ensure that Lower
Sproul Redevelopment is smoothly run
3. Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management (Designated EVP Chief-of-Staff as
Representative)
a. Purpose: To review classroom policies on campus
b. Main Goal: To push the registrar’s office to find more space on campus for student organization,
to educate administration on student use of space, to push for more student classroom space use
4. Course Materials Fee Committee
a. Purpose: To review campuswide course materials fee
b. Main Goal: To keep the fee low for students to have an affordable education
5. Recreational Sports Board of Governor (Designated EVP Health and Wellness Director as
Representative)
a. Purpose: To be engaged in the development of the possible Health and Wellness Fee Referendum
b. Main Goal: To ensure that values of wellness such as student mental health and the student voice
is heard when deciding on services for Recreational Sports, to leverage relationships with Rec
Sports to better serve students
6. Registration Task Force
a. Purpose: To prepare all administrative units for fall and spring registration processes
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b. Main Goal: To leverage relationships across units to ensure that student services are collaborating
and to present the student voice and concerns regarding the decentralized nature of student services
7. Yield Task Force
a. Purpose: To assist in yield, and recruitment activities
b. Main goal: To assist administration in selling the University to prospective students
8. Space Assignment and Capital Improvements
a. Purpose: To assign space campuswide
b. Main Goal: To gather permanent space for student organizations and student government
9. University Athletics Board (Designated EVP Chief-of-Staff as Representative)
a. Purpose: To assist in management of athletics programs
b. Main Goal: To leverage partnerships with Athletics
10. Commercial and Student Services Board Member
a. Purpose: To assist in the management of the ASUC Auxiliary
b. Main Goal: To leverage student projects and representation in the management of the commercial
arm of the ASUC
11. Commercial and Student Services Board – Organization and Governance -- Committee Chair
a. Purpose: To assist in the development of the ASUC Auxiliary as an organization and to define the
relationship between the ASUC Auxiliary and the ASUC as the transition persists, to represent
the student voice in all new hires
12. Student Fee Referendum Committee
13. Lower Sproul Working Group
14. Lower Sproul Program Committee
15. Operational Excellence Student One-Stop-Shop Working Group
a. Purpose: Develop a one-stop-shop for registrar, billing and payment services, and financial aid
PROGRAMMATIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. ASUC Senate Leadership Institute
a. A week long training and workshops for the ASUC Senate. Sought to empower Senators and for
them to meet campus colleagues and partners.
2. A Day in the Life
a. Program that allows students to shadow amazing professors on campus so they can see into the
life of academia.
3. ASUC Fellowship Program
a. A Leadership development program for ASUC Interns that allow them to be mentored by ASUC
elected officials and established student leaders. The program will begin in the spring for the first
time ever.
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--------------Executive Summary, by EVP Sayarath (cont'd)
4. ASUC Internship Program
a. The largest ASUC internship program in the ASUC began this semester as students began by
meeting with their direct report. The interns are invited to attend biweekly workshops where they
can develop skills and gain more insight into the ASUC. The internship decal I set to begin in
spring.
5. ASUC Internship Program kickoff
a. The largest ASUC Internship program kickoff was held in Heller Lounge with snacks and a
wonderful welcome for the new interns. The event was more formal than previous years and
assisted in the development and retention of interns.
6. All-ASUC Staff Meeting
a. The first ALL ASUC Staff meeting was held in 10 Evans. There, students of the ASUC gained
insight into the overall direction of the ASUC and what it means to be in the ASUC. It fostered a
cross-collaborative environment.
7. Peace not Prejudice Week
a. A week of events dedicated to cross-cultural development and eliminating prejudice.
8. Leadership Symposium
a. A large conference held for students across the State of California to develop student organizing
skills.
9. Mandatory Lower Sproul Surge Town hall
a. Educated students on all logistics of Lower Sproul and Lower Sproul surge.
10. ASUC Funding Form Hack-a-Thon
11. Calapalooza
12. Elections Results Screening on Sproul
13. Lower Sproul Student Council
14. ASUC Perspectives Auditions
15. International Thanksgiving Dinner
16. Eshleman Free Day
ASUC AUXILIARY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. Creating soft cap section in the ASUC Bookstore
2. Created Request for Proposals for Lower Sproul vendors
3. Reviewed Lower Sproul and ASUC Auxiliary Business Plan
4. Beginning ASUC Alumni Database to begin fundraising campaign for ASUC and student
organizations
5. Re-evaluating existing Auxiliary services
6. Examining Cal Lodge financials and creating reports for senate to develop decisions
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--------------Executive Summary, by EVP Sayarath (cont'd)
LOWER SPROUL SURGE PROJECT
1. Coordinated the move of 300+ organizations and all their belongings
2. Planned space with campus’ capital projects, ASUC Auxiliary, architects, and administration
3. Fought against administration for them to understand use of student space
4. Coordinated IT needs, plumbing, trash, custodial, and recycling needs of all student space with little
help from ASUC Auxiliary or campus entities
5. Held multiple town halls to constantly obtain feedback about student needs
6. Met with multiple student groups to assist them with move in
7. Developing insurance claim program for lost belongings
8. Creating a welcoming environment by helping students unpack and put up paintings, drawings, etc.
9. Still coordinating last minute moves of fringe student organizations like the SERC, BicyCal, etc.
10. The Surge project has not closed because we are presenting any and all student problems with space
to capital projects
11. Surge meditation space
12. Surge elements of the Lead Center
13. Working with Hearst Building Coordinator and other neighbors
14. Obtaining more student spaces on campus via campus committees like CCCPM and SACI
LOWER SPROUL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
1. Representing student interest in Lower Sproul Working Group and Program Committee
2. Fought for space swap between ASUC Auxiliary and Cal Corps public service center
3. Negotiated P30 contingent on media center moving out of Eshleman into Naia Lounge
4. Working on obtaining a giant bear statue on Lower Sproul
5. Representing student organization interest in Lower Sproul
ASUC AUXILIARY REALIGNMENT PROJECT
1. ASUC representative on all new hiring committees
2. Representing student interested in the hiring of new Auxiliary employees
3. Acting as lead student rep on ASUC transition matters including working with the Transition Implementation Manager
4. Student Lead on the Lower Sproul Website Working group
5. Student Lead on the LEAD Center website working group
6. Student Lead on the Lower Sproul Marketing Working Group
7. Working with Auxiliary to ensure that all Auxiliary employees understand student needs
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--------------Executive Summary, by EVP Sayarath (cont'd)
ASUC LEAD CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
1. Keeping the LEAD Center accountable to students amidst transition
2. Fighting for better student services
3. Website
4. Negotiation relationship that students want with their advisors
ASUC SUPPORT SYSTEM PROJECT
1. ASUC Tabling Program
2. ASUC poster printing service to come
3. ASUC refrigerator and microwave
4. Organized supplies and equipment for all ASUC programs
5. Empowering other offices by providing project management support as well as publicity via ASUC
EVP publicity and project management departments
6. ASUC All-Staff meeting for all ASUC offices to interact
7. ALL-ASUC bonding programs
8. Strengthened fellowship and internship program
TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
1. Continued student input in bConnect rollout to campus CIO and VCAF
2. Continued student input into CalCentral
3. Working on development of Airbears across the City of Berkeley, making little progress as new CIO
is not hired.
4. Working to roll out campaign promises into the a possible technology referendum in the future.
STUDENT ORGANIZATION EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS
1. One-Stop Resource guide is online
2. Student Resources Department outreaches to all of Cal’s 1000+ student organizations
3. The EVP office is the student organization’s first stop with the ASUC. We direct them to the right
place.
4. Assist Student organizations by giving them spaces to organize.
5. Programming is always collaborative with student organizations, never just an EVP project.
ASUC SENATE EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS
1. Present issues and advise Senate on major issues like bylaw restricting and financial situation, but
never tell them what to do.
Report from the Executive Vice President (cont'd)
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--------------Executive Summary, by EVP Sayarath (cont'd)
2. Effective support and Chair for ASUC Senate.
ASUC SENATE MEETINGS
1. “Most efficient and effective Senate meetings in the history of the ASUC” – Senate Recorder Litwak
OUTREACH
1. The EVP publicity department assists all ASUC entities with graphic design assistance and the turnaround is quick. Helps student organizations other ASUC offices do everything they need.
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--------------Special Committee Reports
Reporting for the Deficit Task Force, Mr. Pacheco said it did not meet that week because Mr. Sayarath
and Mr. Landgraf couldn't make the meeting. They have the same agenda, basically. Next week they'll
talk about fee referenda and spring budgeting. The Fi-Comm Chair, Ms. Saifuddin, will give a presentation at 7:15 in the Blue & Gold Room in Hearst Gym.
Reporting for the Campaign Finance Reform Committee, Mr. Bellet said he sent an e-mail out earlier in
the week with an update from the Committee. They met on Monday and submitted the bill. The bill is
attached to the e-mail he sent out. He wasn't sure what number it was assigned. The bill should go to the
Finance Committee, SB 196, In Support of a More Transparent and Accessible Elections Process. He
would people, for those who are in parties, to please talk to their Party Chair and make sure they're on the
same page. A lot of this will depend on Senators’ willingness to come together next week and pass a
compromise bill that suits both Parties and all the constituencies involved, and that the campus was okay
with. As he said in the e-mail, Mr. Bellet said he was really proud of everyone’s willingness to come
together and have this somewhat sensitive conversation. He wanted to thank everyone on the Committee.
They meet on Monday’s right after the University and External Affairs Committee meeting, in the same
room. If people want to join them on Monday, they were more than welcome to do so. He called for any
questions about the bill or anything. People could also talk to him off the floor.
Reporting for the Elections Council Chair Selection Committee, Mr. Pack said the Committee will have
to convene during Dead Week, due to the availability of the candidates. He sent an e-mail to committee
members to see if they were okay with that, but it seemed that Monday worked for the candidates. Most
of the Committee wasn't hearing this, because half the Senate was missing, but it will be worked out.
Regarding the Solicitor General Selection Committee, Mr. Pack said that Committee was also in the process of reconvening.
Special Committee Reports (cont'd)
Report from the Graduate Assembly Representative
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Mr. Sayarath said that for the Elections Council Chair, he just wanted to preface that the Senate will
really have to help that person and get them started as quickly as possible when they begin. So Senators
should be prepared for that.
Report from the Graduate Assembly Representative
Ms. Navab said she would remind Senators that CACSSF proposals for funding are due in January. It
would be great if people could get applications in early so the Committee could go through them and tell
applicants what modifications to make before they're sent in.
Also, Ms. Navab said that Chancellor Dirks came to campus that day. He met with Executives of the
ASUC and the GA. They talked about priorities for the ASUC and the GA, as well as what they would
like their relationship with him to look like in the future. Chancellor Dirks will be doing several additional things. Ms. Navab said they also met his wife, who is quite charming, and Ms. Navab said she
looked forward to working with her as well.
Ms. Navab said the LEAD Center Director interviews were originally set for two days, that coming Friday and December 5. The second candidate they were going to interview has pulled out. So the interview for December 5 was canceled, and they'll figure out what they'll do about a second person. Senators
should look out for that. The interview on Friday will be held. Mr. Sayarath called for any questions.
Mr. Pack said he’s heard January thrown out as a possible date for CACSSF proposals. He asked if she
could give them a more concrete date. Ms. Navab said it will most likely be January 30 when the Committee would like applications, because the Committee had to submit them at least two weeks in advance.
Ms. Saifuddin said a couple of Senators expressed interest in meeting with the new Chancellor in a future
meeting. If Ms. Navab heard anything about that, that would be appreciated. Ms. Navab said generally,
the Chancellor has met with the Senate once a semester or so. At the meeting that morning, the students
said they'd like to have that meeting more regularly, and to have the Chancellor be a more visible presence, both to staff and to students. Seeing no further questions, Mr. Sayarath said he would like to thank
her.
Special Committee Reports (cont'd)
Ms. Pepito said the Surge Advisory Committee canceled its meeting that week because of what happened
last night with Occupy Eshleman. Briana Mullen sent out something to the Advisory Committee about
changes that were happening. Speaking for herself, Ms. Pepito said that reviewing them, she endorsed
the allocations that were made, and the changes that were made. If people had any questions about them,
she thought Ms. Mullen was trying to get to the Senate meeting quickly to talk about this, if she got there
before the Senate adjourned. Otherwise, Ms. Mullen will talk to them about allocations via e-mail.
Special Committee Reports (cont'd)
Reports from ASUC Representatives (cont'd)
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Before they're published, people should take a look at them. If Senators have any questions or strong
opposition, they should let the Advisory Committee know. From her perspective sitting on the Committee, she endorsed what has been put forward.
Mr. Bellet said that regarding the LEAD Center Director interview, he asked who was free from 2:45 to
3:15 on Friday to meet with the candidate. The Senate meeting with the candidate for the LEAD Center
Director position is at 2:45 on Friday. Mr. Sayarath said he sent that date out a while ago and asked people to block it out. It's a really important position, and he hoped Senators could be there. Mr. Bellet said
he would love it if everyone could be there.
Mr. Sayarath called for any other Special Committee Reports.
Mr. Pacheco said that regarding ASUC Lecture Notes, he said that Ms. Saifuddin brought up earlier the
point that Mr. Landgraf was thinking about giving that responsibility to the ASUC. That was something
the Deficit Task Force considered, and they decided against taking that up next semester. That was a
question they talked about last week. Also, they decided to dedicate $60,000 in the 2013 budget to the
Cal Lodge, instead of $20,000 that was normally allocated. That was contingent upon the lawsuit. But
nothing was set in stone.
Reports from ASUC Representatives (cont'd)
Reporting as Lower Sproul Project representative, Briana Mullen said they withdraw some applications.
She was sending an e-mail to the Senate. There are 40 projects. There shouldn't be any issues, but if
people have any, they should let her know that evening or Thursday. She had to start getting them. There
are keys and locks to move in, and she didn't want to deal with this it after that semester.
As for changes or highlights, publications was moved into the cage space. The Cal Hiking and Outdoor
Society (CHAOS) has been allocated a cubicle. The Student Legal Center has office space. Basically,
everyone who applied for space was allocated space. She was still taking rolling applications, so if
groups still want space, they could e-mail her. Mr. Sayarath asked if Mr. Pacheco could follow-up with
the Student Group Collective and send Ms. Mullen an e-mail. Also, if people have a problem with allocations, he’d ask them to please let the office know by that evening, since a lot of logistical stuff had to be
done next week to prepare for groups to move into their spaces in the Spring Semester, stuff like telephone lines, locks, access, that kind of stuff. Student organizations need to know if there will be changes.
So if Senators have a problem with space assignments, he would ask them to please let him know.
Elected Officials Announcements
Ms. Saifuddin said that as Senators knew, Senate committees spend a lot of time going through bills and
writing agendas and minutes. In the interests of respect for everyone, she would ask Senators to please
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make sure that the bills they write abide by the By-laws. This was the end of the first semester, so they
should all know how to write bills. She was trying to be as polite as possible. For people who have to
write so many pages of minutes, and had to go through every single agenda item, and make sure everything was in line, they all should know things by now, and she would ask them to please not submit any
more crap bills. She was very tired of seeing them. And she would ask Senators to please make sure that
when they submit something, she shouldn't have to e-mail them back to tell them something was against
the By-laws. That’s something they should know already. So she would ask Senators to please make
sure they abide by the By-laws. It was hard to bring about major By-law and constitutional changes when
Senators still don't know what the heck all of them are. It was frustrating to her when she sees 45 agenda
items and literally 70% of them were not written well. That wasn't acceptable. She’d hope that Senators
hold themselves to higher standards. That’s all she had to say. She wanted to thank them for all their
hard work, and would ask them to please continue to do that; and hopefully they can improve.
Ms. Pepito said the Medical Mission Benefit Concert is in three days. She will also be an emcee, as of
last night. If people want some fun and entertainment, they should attend. They planned it that day and
she was really excited. Also, just that week they got a new performer, “Legaci,” who are the back-up
singers for Justin Beiber. They were here five years ago and were coming back after a five-year hiatus.
They're really cool. Also coming are the “Mango Kingz,” Jayne Rio, Dustin Ako, and much more. People could look them up. She had tickets, and if they plan on coming, Ms. Pepito asked people to please
buy them from her that evening before they leave. The Concert will be on Saturday, from 5:00 to 8:00.
Tickets are $12 to $15, sliding scale.
Mr. Lieu said his community is throwing its annual Sascerade in the City. They're taking two party buses
to the City to party with some activist organizers. It will be dope. Tickets are $20. He would ask people
to please let him know if they want to go. It will be on November 30, from 9 p.m. to whenever people
want the party to end, or 2 a.m.
Mr. Lee said the Korean Coalition is having its first banquet. It was the hardest thing he’s ever done in
his life, throwing a banquet by himself, with no help. It will happen on Saturday, 6:00 to 9:00.
Seeing no other announcements, Mr. Sayarath said they concluded the agenda and said the Chair would
entertain a motion to adjourn. It was so moved and seconded and passed with no objection.
Mr. Sayarath said that for the reports from Mr. Landgraf and Mr. Abbasi, he noted that Senators called for
written reports.
Roll call was taken for attendance. Members present were:
Jason Bellet
Mihir Deo
George Kadifa
Tom Lee
Klein Lieu
Rafi Lurie
Jeff Ma
Megan Majd
Jorge Pacheco
Nolan Pack
Deejay Pepito
Sahana Rajasekar
Sadia Saifuddin
Daley Vertiz
Emily White
This meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m.
These minutes respectfully submitted by,
Steven I. Litwak, Recording Secretary