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Former ASUCD External Affairs Commission Chair Carly Sandstrom was confirmed as a senator at Thursday’s Senate meeting. Sandstrom applied for the position of interim senator online at the ASUCD website and then attended an interview with ASUCD President Rebecca Sterling on Nov. 13. She currently works with University Outreach and International Programs. Only 11 senators […]

Student entrepreneurs looking for funding for their start-up businesses can get help from ASUCD’s Entrepreneurship Fund (E-Fund), which was created last Winter quarter. The program, which has two selection periods throughout the year, grants up to $1,500 to winning students to develop their business ideas. A selection committee is responsible for reading applications and choosing […]

A $36,000 loan was made from ASUCD Capital Reserves to student-run UC Davis radio station KDVS earlier this month, allowing the purchase of a new radio tower to strengthen the station’s transmission signal and solidify its broadcast presence in Yolo County. The tower is set to stand at the Yolo County Central Landfill, northeast of […]

SMART Armando Figueroa #1 Fourth-year Chicana/o studies major Background: Former intern to Tatiana Bush Received UC Davis Silver Volunteer Service Award 2011 Peer advising counselor for Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Political Chair of Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán (MEChA) Intern with African Diaspora Cultivating Education Platforms: 1. Pass a bill that will allow students to […]

The election of six new ASUCD senators was announced at Friday’s Aggie Pride Rally. Two candidates were elected from each slate, along with two independents: SMART slate candidates Alyson Sagala and Armando Figueroa, NOW slate candidates Felicia Ong and Tal Topf and independent candidates Liam Burke and Maxwell Kappes. Sagala, a fourth-year political science and […]

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times are listed according to the clock at the Nov. 15 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend Senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m. Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, present Yena Bae, ASUCD vice […]

The six new students who will join the ASUCD senate table as elected officials are Alyson Sagala, Armando Figueroa, Felicia Ong, Liam Burke, Maxwell Kappes and Tal Topf. They will be sworn in on Nov. 29. Sagala and Figueroa ran with the SMART slate, focusing on being voices for underrepresented groups on campus. Ong and […]

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Nov. 8 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m. Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, present, left early Yena Bae, […]

All 14 ASUCD Senate candidates participated in an forum at the ASUCD Coffee House yesterday at noon. The event, sponsored by the ASUCD Elections Committee and moderated by The California Aggie, gave candidates the opportunity to explain their platforms, goals and priorities to student voters in attendance. Each candidate was given one minute to answer […]

As National Election Day, today, approached this month, UC students have heard from administrative, government and student leaders for a final push to have students register to vote and to pass Proposition 30. The proposition, on today’s ballot, will have a direct impact on UC students, as an estimated $2,400 will be added to tuition. […]

Yara Zokaie, former ASUCD senator and alumna of UC Davis, officially resigned from her position on Oct. 18. Although Zokaie currently attends law school at the University of San Diego, the former senator elected to retain her seat after graduating from UC Davis last June until the expiration of her term at the end of […]

The Unit Relocation and Space Allocation Committee (URSAC) has voted to relocate the Entertainment Council (EC) to the former AS Papers space located in Lower Freeborn and to have Creative Media expand its programming unit into EC’s current space on the third floor of the Memorial Union (MU). The committee, which is responsible for determining […]