Alex Wilford is nearly one semester into his term as ACC president. Kalti V cut up with him to talk about his office and recent issues. I want to now shift our attention towards something that's been happening on campus, making headlines on the Daily Cow, and making it around on social media. I'm curious to ask to wonder if you've seen this photo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. The photo shared over 300 times on Facebook has populated various student group pages. It depicts members of Fiji mocking students protesting sexual assault, some calling for boycotts of fratts. The fraternity is not officially recognized by the campus, unlike the other 63 fraternities and sororities, all of whom are required to undergo workshops and trainings. It's frankly disgusting. It's a photo that shows how much that community needs to work on addressing and the climate in the community, making sure survivors who supported addressing issues of toxic masculinity with that community as well. In the wake of such an impactful and really hard partisan divisive and difficult time for survivors with the Kavanaugh incidents, no individuals in our community should be in any way disrespecting or mocking those the trauma or the experiences of survivors. Wilfred says the image demonstrates how much growth has to happen in Greek life. He says the individuals involved need to be held accountable. I think as a community center last year, I think this was a conversation that came up and we really try to see where the ASUCs role is in this. Obviously the Greek community and specifically IFCs are different. They're not recognized by the university, so there is certain things that we can and we cannot do, but I think it's really important for me as someone who's seen this consistently, that we finally see something happening, that we finally continuously support survivors, we implement survivor-centric policy, and that we work with the community leaders like P.H.C. and Gasah who are already doing that work. Wilfred says he believes the alleged incidences of roofing and assault happening in Cal's Greek community. I think that needs to change. I think there is work being done specifically. Panel and Accounts has been doing work on this. Gasah has been doing work on this. IFC has slowly started to do some things, but it's not enough. We need to make sure that every member in our community feels safe, every member in the Cal community feels safe. We are also implementing accountability standards for our so as a whole, around sexual violence, around alcohol and drug safety, and around mental health. Because we want to make sure that every RSO on this campus, so every registered student organization, every community on this campus, is addressing these issues adequately. That starts with the Greek community, but that's something that we want to do as an ASUC, holistically as well. Wilfred emphasizes that this is not a new issue. This, as we all know, has happened before. What is within the ASUC's reach that can be done? The thing with the ASUC is, we don't sponsor Greek organizations. There is one scholarship, and that's something we're seriously looking at, whether that money should be put there or somewhere else. But as an ASUC, we can call on community leaders to take action and pass bills, but it's really hard, because we want to firstly respect community leaders and respect the individuals who have been doing this work. And as an ASUC, we're there to support those individuals. But also, as an ASUC, we need to be looking after the safety of every student on this campus. And I think that we will be there to advocate for survivors in that community and as a whole. And I think we will not be silent about this issue. This is among the many other issues this office is tackling. Next, we move on to his particular office, which he assumed less than a year ago. It's been a really interesting start this semester. I think we've had a lot of change in the ASUC already. I think we've been seeing a lot of advocacy happening. But we've just been kind of getting the office rolling and getting our policy initiatives pushed through. So I'm excited. I'm excited to see what the rest of the semester holds. His recent projects include the Student Advisory Committee, Campus Climate and Safety, Student Fees, and the larger Berkeley community. He's also got his eye on reforming the ASUC itself. We change our outreach policy to make sure that we're actually engaging with our communities, requiring senators and executives to town halls to meet with community leaders as mandated in our bylaws, rather than just having sitting on Sproul and saying that we're part of the ASUC. So that's exciting. And then just a third one that I would mention is our advocacy around an international student fee hike. So the university wanted provides course services when it comes to acquiring visas for international students. And they wanted these international students who already pay huge amounts of tuition to pay an extra $120 fee. And we pushed back on this. We organized and made sure that we were fighting for these international students so they didn't have to pay this fee. And that was something that we worked with community leaders and these students. So I'm excited that we stopped that. And we made sure that not only did the fee not go up, but we removed the fee entirely. He says he hasn't suffered any major losses yet, but there is always a room for improvement. Luckily right now, administration has been fairly receptive. The ASUC is a whole is doing some great work. So I think we're only scoring some wins right now. Thomas Melania for CalTV News.