Below is the end of semester report that our office compiled of what we have been doing and our accomplishments. Included in this report are: Legislative: Senate Bills Authored and Passed, Community & Platforms Updates, Meetings with Administrators & City Officials, and more.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Good luck on finals everyone,
Klein

[You can download a PDF copy here: SenatorKleinLieu-Fall2012Updates.pdf]

Student Klein Lieu said: “Because of the funding cuts, because the relationship between California and the federal government, many Asian college students have to pay higher tuition.” He would also like to see that there be more Asian voters to cast their votes by ballot to express their community’s wishes on Election Day.

Participants will be mentored by trained UC Berkeley graduate students on:
– Selection of Graduate Program(s)
– Personal Statement
– Statement of Purpose
– Writing Samples
– Curriculum Vitae
– Funding

Attached you will find the Undergraduate student application and flyer. For more information please contact:
Graduate Diversity Program
327 Sproul Hall
grad.diversity@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-6010
Deadline to apply is September 28, 2012
Space is limited, sign-up today!

Flyer

Application

Cal Housing Commission Director

• Serve as the chair for The ASUC Cal Housing Commission.

• Report to the Senate weekly with updates from the city

• Organize bi-monthly meetings of Cal Housing Commission

• Design the annual student housing survey consistent with Title XVI of ASUC By-Laws and present the results and recommendations to the ASUC Senate – survey must be completed by November 15 (at the latest) and results compiled and ready to disseminate by December 15 (at the latest) to the Senate and student body

• To act as a group within the ASUC to address the housing needs of students and to make executive decisions regarding the Berkeley Cribs Website.

• Work with the Berkeley Cribs Director to compile issue briefs from data in the Berkeley Cribs Website into a report

• Communicate and build a relationship with the City of Berkeley’s Housing Advisory Commission, Council members, and Housing and Community Services Department to address the unmet needs of students. – Work in conjunction with the Berkeley Rent Board and UC Housing Services to advocate for the rights of students

• Attend all Berkeley Rent Board meetings and create Executive Summaries to present to the EAVP and Chief of Staff in order to mobilize and inform students about upcoming issues

• Work with EAVP and Chief of Staff to recruit appointments to City Commissionerships

• Coordinate Tenant’s Rights Week in Fall 2012 and Spring 2013

Berkeley Cribs Director

• Charged with maintaining the functionality of the Berkeley Cribs Website and increasing it as needed to assist students in making fair and wise housing decisions.

• The term of the Berkeley Cribs Director starts from the time of appointment until the start of the following fall semester.

• Communicating with student organizations and campus partners about issues regarding student housing including tenant’s rights and affordable housing, and addressing these issues within the Berkeley Cribs Website.

• Designing the Berkeley Cribs Website and assisting the Director of the Cal Housing Commission in marketing the Website and assisting the Director of the ASUC Cal Housing Commission in compiling information from the survey for his/her report.

• Establishing a team of interns and web developers to support him/herself in completing these duties

• Report to the Senate monthly along with the Director of the ASUC Cal Housing Commission on his/her activities, and with suggested action items.
• This is a stipend position.

For more information, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/177183512416623/

http://www.dailycal.org/2012/08/12/asuc-senator-creates-saferenting-web-app/

August 10, 2012

Contact: Senator Klein Lieu, Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)
klieu@asuc.org
510.709.9007

*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***

BERKELEY, CA – August 10, 2012 – Today, Berkeley SafeRenting, a web application for Berkeley residents to learn if they live in a building that was deemed seismically unsound by the City of Berkeley’s Soft Story Program, went live to the public. With this web app, residents can find where seismically unsound, or Soft Story buildings, are located in the city, and see if landlords have taken steps to retrofit said buildings. This application is also provided as a visualization tool for Berkeley residents to understand where high concentrations of seismically unsound buildings are located.

Soft Story buildings are buildings where large openings such as wide doors or windows take the place of one or more walls on the ground floor. Typically, Soft Story structures are apartment multi-story buildings. In a major earthquake, these buildings could face severe damage, but retrofitting them for seismic safety is a relatively inexpensive project. In recent years, the City of Berkeley has taken steps to identify these buildings, and make residents and landlords aware of the associated risks.

Berkeley SafeRenting developer Klein Lieu says of the project, “I came across a PDF listing seismically unsound buildings in Berkeley, but it was difficult to understand the data as it was presented. I decided to create this app to leverage technology to improve the experience of residents of Berkeley concerned about their safety, especially students who live in many of the buildings identified by the Soft Story Program.”

Berkeley SafeRenting can be accessed at http://senator.kleinlieu.com/saferenting.

To learn more about the City of Berkeley’s Soft Story Program, please visit http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/contentdisplay.aspx?id=622.
Berkeley SafeRenting is not affiliated with the City of Berkeley.

About Klein Lieu
Klein is a Senator for the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), UC Berkeley’s student government. He is an elected official with Cal Students for Equal Rights and a Valid Education (CalSERVE). He will graduate this year with his B.A. in Cognitive Science, and hopes that Berkeley SafeRenting is one of many ways that he can use his knowledge of technology to make government work better for its people.

To learn more, visit http://senator.kleinlieu.com.

(Originally written for the Democratic National Committee Blog)

My name is Klein Lieu, and I was born and raised in East Oakland, CA. I am currently an undergraduate and student Senator at UC Berkeley, and I know I would not have gotten here had it not been for the breadth of social programs that Democrats have advocated for that have alleviated countless people out of poverty.

My story about why I am a Democrat does not start at the 2012 Elections though. My story starts with my mom and dad, who came here to America in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. With five daughters and two sons, my mom and dad eventually settled down in the heart of East Oakland, with the dream that their children would go on to get a university education in the United States. With just a high school education in hand, my parents not only instilled into each of us the importance of the sacrifice they made for us to have a better future, but pushed all of us to go to college. Our family did not accomplish that dream on pure hard work alone though. My parents were given assistance to make sure our family had adequate food and health care – social programs that were provided by the government for families in need.

I worked hard to get to college. Coming to UC Berkeley was not only a dream come true for me, but it was a shifting moment where I began to take hold of my identity of being a progressive. Though Oakland and Berkeley are mere minutes away from each other, it was not until I came to that I realized how essential programs like Medicaid, Pell Grants, and affordable housing were in supporting my dreams, and how these programs actually help Americans across the country fulfill their dreams, too. This is the power social programs have on real lives, and I am the embodiment of the potential it carries for future generations to come.

That is why it upsets me that there are leaders in this country who promise to dismantle these programs from existence. In a time where we need to rebuild our country, we need to elect leaders who understand not only what it takes to heal America, but who have the heart to know that rebuilding it starts from the bottom up. This is the same vision of what President Roosevelt saw in his New Deal, what President Johnson saw in the Great Society programs, and what Democrats have been fighting for for nearly a century: providing social programs for the working and middle class to have a fair and fighting chance. This is why for the 2012 Elections, I am ready to re-elect Democrats: to defend the programs that support my family and the countless more Americans who have hopes of a better future.