Check out these news clips of Dionne Jirachaikitti, CalSERVE candidate for External Affairs VP and the current EAVP Chief of Staff, speaking about the work she has been involved inthis year to help empower students in the political system and make it easier to obtain affordable loans.

The clip below features Dionne on campus heading a voter registration drive that registered over 700 student voters in a single day before the California Presidential Primaries.

The second clip features Dionne lobbying in Washington, D.C. on behalf of students to increase the affordability and accessibility of higher education with better student loans.

It’s an unfortunate reality of print campaigns that an entire platform is supposed to fit on a small flyer or in a single sentence quotation in the Daily Cal. However, technology has made it much easier for elected representatives to communicate with the public at large. Our new website reflects our commitment to being transparent with the student body about our beliefs, platform, and attitudes.

We hope that our new website will convey CalSERVE’s purpose and mission of pro-actively standing up for students in the ASUC. We’ve compiled a composite of the overarching themes and issues that we as students must deal with, and which CalSERVE members and supporters are dedicated to working on. Details about all of our candidates and ways to support them can be found on their individual pages.

We are proud to deliver a comprehensive and solid platform to the student body via our website, and we promise that our website will follow the same pattern of all our campus activities: we will continue to work on it throughout the year, as circumstances change, even once election season is over.

Berkeley — March 12, 2008: CalSERVE, the longest running political party on the UC Berkeley campus, released its executive slate today for the upcoming ASUC elections, to be held from April 8-10. Running for President is current ASUC Senator Roxanne Winston; for Executive Vice President, Krystle Pasco; for Academic Affairs Vice President, Carlo de la Cruz; and, for External Affairs Vice President, chief of staff in the Office of External Affairs Vice President, Dionne Jirachaikitti:

Last year, CalSERVE candidates committed themselves to overhauling the ASUC with their “5 steps to change” platform. With ASUC elections right around the corner, it is clear that they have delivered on their message of change.

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