AS Senate Recap – 3/31/25

The AS Senate is a group of elected student representatives which serves as the policy-making body of Associated Students. Every Wednesday at 6:30 PM, the AS Senate convenes to pass bills and resolutions, hear reports from Boards, Committees, and Units (BCUs), and hold public forum.

Here’s a quick update by KCSB’s Joyce Chi.

The Flying A Room sits ready for another Senate meeting to begin.

The Senate is back for Spring Quarter, with its first meeting this Wednesday at 6:30 PM. See the agenda here. 

The first half of the quarter will be focused on the Spring General Election, as we mentioned in the intro letter. When it comes to constitutional amendments, devoted readers of this Senate Recap will recognize many of those proposals immediately: they’re the same ones that the Senate attempted to pass during the Winter Special Election. These sought to change the structure of the Senate, the duties of executive positions, and the flexibility of the Spring General Election deadline.

In an email vote before spring break, the Senate agreed to reintroduce those proposed amendments on the upcoming ballot. (Click to see the email vote’s agenda and responses here). 

Other ballot initiatives approved in that email vote: a move to let candidates for Internal Vice President and the Senate to run under political parties, and an effort to cancel the student fee for IV Arts, which is responsible for programming like Magic Lantern Films, Improvability, and screenings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

On that latter point, the initiative says that the fee is redundant, since the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) has its own lock-in fee that provides funding to IV Arts. In an email to us, Anna Jensen, director of IV Arts, said they were “in full support” of eliminating the IV Arts-specific fee to avoid the redundancy. “We are grateful to the students for their strong support of our programming,” she wrote.

For other measures you can expect on the Spring ballot, check out our previous Senate Recaps.

Access this week’s AS Senate agenda (which includes their bills and resolutions) using your student email here. You can see last week’s agenda here. Meetings are typically held each week at the Flying A Room of the University Center (Main Floor) throughout the quarter, aside from Week 10. You can also watch live and past meetings on Facebook here.