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Independent candidate Kalli Zervas runs for ASUC Senate Last Updated March 8, 2021 Kalli Zervas Kalli Zervas, a UC Berkeley junior, is running independently for an ASUC Senate position on a platform that includes increasing ASUC transparency, reforming Greek life and preventing sexual violence and sexual harassment, or SVSH. Zervas, who has worked in two different ASUC offices, explained that the issues she saw in the ASUC, from a lack of transparency to a focus on party agendas over student needs, motivated her to run for office. “We need to fight for the students, not our parties, and it...

On Thursday evening, the Student Action party released its third and final slate of candidates running for Senate positions in the upcoming ASUC elections. Campus sophomores Amy Chen and Sophie Morris and freshman Jerry Xu are running for the ASUC Senate positions. The candidates’ platforms include supporting and representing the international, East Asian, Jewish and Greek life communities. A member of the international and East Asian communities at UC Berkeley, Chen is advocating for increased financial support by establishing international student research grants and scholarships. Amid a ...

Student Action candidates look to prioritize students, COVID-19 transition From Left to Right, top: Ronit Sholkoff, Mateo Torrico From Left to Right, bottom: Aditya Varma, Jake Mehari Last Updated March 1, 2021 The Student Action party announced its executive candidate slate and transfer representative candidate Sunday evening for the upcoming ASUC elections. Current ASUC Senator Ronit Sholkoff, who has formerly worked at The Daily Californian, is running for ASUC president. Aditya Varma, current chief of staff to ASUC Senator Ruchi Shah, is the executive vice president candidate. Current ASU...

As the Student Government Association election season heats up, complaints from opposing parties resurface past tweets of candidates running in 2021. The two parties, Student Action and #RiseUp both have their fair share of complaints go through the election commission, some of these complaints noting violation of election codes and having merit. The Student Action party candidate Yazen Hamoudah was held by a complaint violating the SGA election code with recent tweets expressing insensitive things, according to the statement. “I never meant to offend anyone, but that is not an excuse for m...

Community Photo: Silas Baisch/Unsplash Recently, the McIver’s Ladies Baths in Sydney came under fire for their (since removed) policy stating “only transgender women who’ve undergone a gender reassignment surgery are allowed entry”. The policy was seemingly in defiance of New South Wales’ anti-discrimination and sex discrimination acts. Managed since 1922 by the Randwick and Coogee Ladies Amateur Swimming Club, the baths are a haven for women and the last remaining women’s-only seawater pool in Australia. Just over 100 public ocean pools sit on Australia’s rocky coast,...