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Engineers take leading role in student government
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Outgoing
Chancellor Robert Berdahl looks on as engineering senior and
ASUC president Misha Leybovich encouraged new students to
regard their time at Berkeley as both an “opportunity
and challenge” to try new things.
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Student body president Misha Leybovich, an engineering physics
senior, officially kicked off the 2004-05 school year by welcoming
new students to campus last fall.
The annual Welcome Week convocation, held at Memorial Glade, was
attended by hundreds of the 8,218 new freshmen, transfer, and
graduate students attending UC Berkeley this year.
Leybovich is one of four engineers, a record number, serving on
the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC).
Highly visible in his role as president, he has been sighted shaking
hands with Bill Gates, schmoozing with Steve Wozniak, and introducing
Dean Richard Newton at the CITRIS groundbreaking. Also serving
as ASUC senators are engineering undeclared junior Chris Abad,
ME sophomore Igor Tregub, and MSE sophomore Peter Chung.
Welcome Week was one of the final duties hosted by outgoing Chancellor
Robert Berdahl, who retired last September after seven years at
Berkeley.
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