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As part of its Wednesday meeting, the UC Board of Regents discussed the university’s annual ethics compliance and audit services report for the 2022-23 fiscal year, as well as various financial issues.

The ASUC has announced Resolution No. 2023/24-008 which will allocate $3,000 in funding for MEMSSA.

Graduate Assembly refers resolution to equitably allocate space in Eshleman Hall as part of goals to establish an independent association.

ASUC President Sydney Roberts has sponsored a senate resolution that would allow Registered Student Organizations, or RSOs, to use ASUC funding to travel beyond the Bay Area.

Senators denounced antisemitic hate crimes and Islamophobic rhetoric during the ASUC Senate meeting Wednesday, urging the student body to stay correctly informed regarding escalating violence in Israel and Gaza.

In its first of three summer meetings, the ASUC Inter-Semester Committee tabled two resolutions that would establish a social justice commission and form official club recruitment guidelines ahead of the upcoming recruitment season.

Despite an increase in the number of candidates in the past ASUC election, previous candidates noted that a lack of resources was not a problem they faced in their campaigns. 

ASUC senators passed resolutions and appointed officers during the weekly senate meeting Wednesday.

ASUC President Chaka Tellem issued a formal presidential veto — the first since 2016 — of Senate Resolution, or SR, 22/23-057 Saturday night. The resolution, passed by more than two-thirds of the ASUC Senate on Wednesday, bans political parties and coalitions from participating in future ASUC elections.

This marks the first time since the coalition’s founding 10 years ago that its endorsed candidate has not been elected, according to a statement from current MEMSSA senator Deena Ali and other members of the coalition.