Um, yeah. Now that that’s out of the way, here’s the full list of senators (in order of most votes):

1. Noah Stern (Student Action)
2. Eunice Kwon (CalSERVE)
3. Anish Gala (UNITE Greek/Student Action)
4. Nhu Nhu Nguyen (UNITE Greek/Student Action)
5. Sandra Cohen (APPLE Engineering/Student Action)
6. Jonathan Gaurano (Independent)
7. Cynthia Nava (CalSERVE)
8. Christina Oatfield (Cooperative Movement)
9. Sam Lee (APPLE Engineering/Student Action)
10. Minji Kim (Student Action)
11. Chris Franco (Independent)
12. Chaney Saephan (CalSERVE)
13. Huda Adem (Independent)
14. Rahul Patel (CalSERVE)
15. J.P. Shami (Student Action)
16. Parth Bhatt (Student Action)
17. Lean Deleon (CalSERVE)
18. Emily Carlton (SQUELCH!)
19. Ariel Boone (CalSERVE)
20. Viola Tang (CalSERVE)

And Hassan Khan won for student advocate. Congrats, folks. We’ll assume you earned it.

Student Action Sweeps ASUC Executive Offices [Daily Cal]

* “This is UC Berkeley–and that’s how it should be!” [YouTube]

* “Get a life & do real journalism.” [Twitter]

* “He’s a Scottish terrier on California’s Oski bear.” [emailed from CalSERVE]

* “‘(E)ast bay’ is pig-Latin for beast, which means the East Bay is kinda named Satan.” [SF Appeal]

* “Stop! I’m the bridge troll.” [YouTube]

Image Source: Christine Borden
Earlier: Ix-nay on the Ecall-ray

We’ll be prepared for anonymous comments from either party’s minions, illegal and rampant chalkings, and the incessant pesterings of ASUC hopefuls around Sather Gate.

Even fashion mag BARE is jumping into the student politics under the flimsy pretense that “voting is always in vogue.” Sure, if you think people holding giant signs with names of hopeful senators is haute couture.

Stay tuned tomorrow for a list of campaign kickoffs so that you can score free food from the candidates who will be bugging you after spring break.

Student Action always gets their flyers up before anyone else, and we’ve realized that for three years now we’ve cared enough to blog about it. Who’s the bigger loser? (Please don’t answer that.)

Above, we’ve captured a selection of flyers from Wheeler and Dwinelle halls, but we’re sure there must be more lurking around (we only took pictures of the ones not yet blocked by other flyers). E-mail us at clog@dailycal.org if you’ve snagged a picture of a different flyer.

This year, Student Action turned a new page in their flyer design. In previous years, the flyers listed their accomplishments with “DONE” in big block letters underneath. Maybe SA realized it was so easy to make fun of their slogan. Example:

Recall ASUC senator
DONE

Oh, wait–maybe that was CalSERVE.

Instead, SA is making promises. They are all rather vague, like something about quality of student life and “resources” for academic success. All completely defensible come next election season. But do these promises indicate that SA has nothing to be proud of this year? Do we even have to answer that?

Image Source: Christine Borden
Earlier: Student Action Flyers Everywhere First DONE, Done: Student Action Acts First

According to preliminary tabulations, Student Action did much better in the senate, where they landed eight seats. Eight of CalSERVE’s senators also placed. The co-ops managed to shoehorn in one representative, as did Squelch and the Berkeley College Republicans. Matt DeMartini won the student advocate post, which pretty much goes without saying.

Our trusty Daily Cal news source says that the last time a single party controlled all four VP positions was during the 2006-2007 term, when Student Action had the cast-iron monopoly on the executive offices. Ah, how the tables have turned.

CalSERVE Sweeps Executive Offices in ASUC Elections [Daily Cal]

Event No. 1: From All Perspectives Showcase
You’ve seen it plastered on Student Action flyers everywhere–the touting of the “From All Perspectives” showcase as an amazing, awesome accomplishment. It’s a show where various student groups–from Movement Hip-Hop to the Armenian Students Association–perform in Zellerbach Hall to create a show brimming with culturally diverse Cal spirit. On top of that, it’s hosted by none other than your comedic geniuses at Jerricho Improv. The show is tonight at 6:30 p.m. and costs $5. Ticket sales pretty much go to all the participating organizations. If successful, Student Action reserves the right to place it on their campaign flyers for the next 10 years. Oh yeah, and the student group with the biggest posse gets a prize, so represent!

Event No. 2: bridges’ Senior Weekend
Alternatively, if you’re not parading diversity on-stage tonight, you’re probably encouraging it in another way–by hosting seniors from low-income high schools until Sunday for bridges’ Senior Weekend. It’s the “annual event where over 400 recently admitted High School seniors come to UC Berkeley and get a taste of what it would be like to come to this prestigious university. The students learn about the different aspects of life at UC Berkeley, from the educational, financial, and social sides.” They’ll also probably bond, make friends, get attached and learn the cultural and political reasons why they should go to Cal–to boost ethnic numbers in the long wake of Proposition 209 (and, eventually, join the movement).

We hope you all enjoy Cal Day. That includes you, prospective students who read the Clog religiously because you simply can’t wait to come to Berkeley. We know you’re out there.

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From All Perspectives [Facebook]
Bridges Multicultural Resource Center [Website]

Thoughts, anyone?

And speaking of pretty sites, we got a tip from Yaman Salahi via Facebook today concerning his own web design:

I thought you might like to check out the new CalSERVE website that I spent the better half of Spring Break working on. For full disclosure purposes: I am the webmaster as well as one of the party coordinators this semester, so by no means am I an “impartial observer” though I’d like to think I’m not wack. It’s at www.calserve.org. I’m not going to lie, I think it’s the best campus party website so far and I think it blows Student Action’s site out of the water.

Does CalSERVE’s site kick more ass and take more names than that of Student Action? We think only Beetle would really care in this matter.

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Daily Cal [Website]
CalSERVE [Website]
Student Action [Website]

CalSERVE Announces Slate and SA gets it DONE [California Patriot]
CalSERVE Executive Slate Candidates Announced [Daily Cal]
CalSUCK [Web Site]
Beetle Beat [Website]
ASUC Elected Officials Blog [Website]
Yaman’s Amateur Ramblings [Website]
Earlier: Done: Student Action Acts First

It’s de facto campaign season, and it’s not even spring break yet. Just wait’ll you come back, dear freshies.

Image Source: Christine Borden

According to the initial tabulation, the winners are:
* President: Van Nguyen of CalSERVE
* Executive Vice President: Taylor Allbright of CalSERVE
* External Affairs Vice President: Danny Montes of CalSERVE
* Academic Affairs Vice President: Curtis Lee of Student Action
* Student Advocate: Ajay Krishnamurthy, independent

For the senate, Student Action won 10 seats, CalSERVE won six, SQUELCH! won one and Berkeley College Republicans won one. Two independents also won seats, with Nadir Shams receiving the most votes. Winne Kuo of APPLE Engineering and Danielle Duong of CalSERVE were also a part of the top three for senate.

Of the referenda and amendments, only the Green Initiative Fund and Line of Succession passed.

The results are not final, however. The Judicial Council will verify the tabulation and hear censure cases before finalizing the results.

The CalSERVE candidates and Krishnamurthy, unless tabulation went horribly wrong, have secured their spots. Curtis Lee, on the other hand, is currently facing eight potential censures. If he receives at least five, he will be disqualified. The candidate who earned the second-most votes would then take his place (if, of course, there’s no appeal).

Shams is also facing a massive amount of potential censures–up to 20. Again, if he receives at least five he too will be disqualified.

CalServe Shake-Up [Daily Cal]