Thank you to all of the candidates, volunteers, and students who supported our campaigns this year. While we are disappointed not all of our hard-working candidates won seats, we are overjoyed that our executive candidates all won their seats, and that 8 of our candidates will become Senators.

According to unofficial results posted by the Elections Council, next year’s executives will be CalSERVE’s Roxanne Winston for President, Dionne Jirachaikitti for External VP, Krystle Pasco for Executive VP, and Carlo de la Cruz for Academic VP.

CalSERVE senators will be Mary June Flores, Lyell Sakaue, Kifah Shah, Obiamaka Ude, Stephanie Yang, Oscar Mairena, Claudia Rodriguez, and Lisa Tran.

Last year, six CalSERVE candidates were elected to Senate, and three won executive positions. Just two years ago, CalSERVE ran no executive candidates and only had four seats in the Senate.

Congratulations to all winning candidates from all parties, as well as to all candidates who invested their time and energy into campaigning but did not secure seats. We look forward to an exciting year.

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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