ASUCD

The new ASUCD executive team and senators were sworn into office on March 16 at the last ASUCD meeting of Winter Quarter. The ASUCD-filled evening kicked off at 6:00 p.m. in the ARC Ballroom. Former ASUCD President Alex Lee, former ASUCD Vice President Abhay Sandhu and former ASUCD Controller Joseph DeAngelo gave farewell speeches, reflecting […]

Student-run radio station seeks to raise $70,000 by spring quarter KDVS, UC Davis’ community-based radio station, has recently undergone significant budget cuts from ASUCD. KDVS’ budget is lower than it has been since the 1970s, without taking inflation rates into account. KDVS received a subsidy of $42,048 for 2014 and 2015. In contrast, the final […]

ASUCD Senate holds first meeting of the school year On Oct. 1, ASUCD Vice President Gareth Smythe called to order the first senate meeting of the year at 6:14 p.m in Memorial Union’s Mee Room. All senators were present at roll call with the exception of Miguel Guerrero and Gabriel Johnson, who both arrived […]

Update (6:42): ASUCD senators voted to approve the president’s budget. Close to 80 KDVS staff members showed up to the unit’s ASUCD senate budget hearing today in protest of proposed cuts. “The association is in a lot of debt and needed to make cuts, and every time these cuts happen, the media takes a hit. […]

ASUCD leadership is preparing to make approximately $240,000 in cuts to next year’s fiscal budget. On May 24, ASUCD president Mariah Watson wrote senators and unit directors in preparation for this weekend’s budget hearings. That letter, along with the recently posted budget proposal, details the executive office’s attempt to make a $217,000 dent in the […]

The ASUCD senate has called for the UC Board of Regents to divest over $74 million from the Republic of Turkey in response to its continued denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Senators appealed the UC Regents May 7 by passing Senate Resolution #15 (SR15), a measure urging the withdrawal of $74,046,600 in investments […]

On April 23, the ASUCD senate meeting began with a call to order. During Appointments and Confirmations, senate confirmed former ASUCD senator Gareth Smythe as the new vice president, following former vice president Robyn Huey’s recent resignation. Senate also confirmed two new Outreach Assembly members. During Unit Director Reports, the unit directors of the CoHo, […]

After a whirlwind week in ASUCD, Mariah Watson looked to bring some tranquility back to the association in the form of a familiar face. Watson, the ASUCD president, named Gareth Smythe as her new vice president today. Smythe fills the void left by former vice president Robyn Huey, who was elected in the Winter ASUCD election with Watson […]

On April 16, ASUCD vice president Robyn Huey presented a letter to ASUCD senate announcing her resignation. ASUCD president Mariah Watson was made aware of the “comprehensive” letter and decision by Huey a day prior. The letter will be made public on Monday, April 20. Watson, while declining to go into significant detail before Huey’s letter […]

Revised budgeting procedure intensifies competition between stipend employees   A new ASUCD bylaw will alter how the Executive Office budgets employee stipends in an attempt to better match each stipend’s value to the work it rewards. Senate Bill #44 (SB44) will compel the Executive Office, composed of the ASUCD president, vice president and controller, to […]

The ASUCD Court has found the ASUCD senate’s endorsement of divestment unconstitutional, according a majority opinion released Feb. 23. Senate Resolution #9 (SR9), which urged the University of California (UC) Regents to divest from corporations affiliated with Israel, was repealed on the basis of a new court standard requiring “politicised resolutions” to “explicitly state and […]

With an unprecedented, uncontested ASUCD election this quarter, Elections Committee Chair John Wu decided to shake things up. In lieu of the traditional ASUCD CoHo debate, co-moderated between the Elections Committee Chair and The Aggie’s own Campus News Editor, the committee set up a candidate forum, held tonight, Feb. 17. Anyone could submit questions for the […]