12/14/09 1:31am
The Class of 2013 Board will bring a brand new event for freshmen called NSOver Again from Jan. 22 to 24, according to 2013 Class President and Wharton freshman Jonathon Youshaei.
12/12/09 1:15am
Approximately 23% of the student body voted on measures to reform student government. Students will now vote directly for a UA president and vice president during elections.
12/10/09 11:39pm
Votes on proposed changes to student government elections reached the necessary threshold for consideration. Turnout surpassed 20 percent on two questions, respectively, by 6 p.m. Thursday.
12/10/09 3:42am
Eighteen percent of students had voted on the current UA referendum as of midnight last night — bringing it only two percentage points away from the 20 needed in order to enter consideration.
12/08/09 7:08am
The UA considered two discussion papers. The first was about the possibility of including HBO or Showtime on Penn Video Network. Next, The New York Times sponsorship program was discussed.
12/06/09 11:53pm
Voting for the referendum calling for a change in the Undergraduate Assembly’s elections process officially begins at midnight tonight.
12/03/09 6:12am
At the State of the School, leaders of the six student government branches spoke about past accomplishments, their plans for the spring and their creative talents.
12/02/09 3:52am
The signs on Locust Walk — which included phrases like “Fling is Cancelled,” “No More Hey Day” and “Fall Break Discontinued” — were part of a one-day campaign by the NEC to teach students the purpose of Penn Student Government.
11/25/09 12:28am
This past Sunday, Wharton sophomore Jeffrey Tillus was elected the new planning and facilitating chairman of UMOJA, the umbrella organization for groups of the African Diaspora at Penn.
11/24/09 2:38am
At the Undergraduate Assembly’s shortest meeting of the semester — less than an hour — the group passed a resolution to support Native American students.
11/23/09 5:32am
Students attempted UA reform in 1991, 1995 and 1996 — and proposed remarkably similar changes to today's referendum.
11/20/09 6:03am
Students' apathy could be a challenge for the upcoming referendum that would establish direct elections for the Undergraduate Assembly’s top two positions, which requires at least 20 percent of the student body to care enough to vote.
11/16/09 7:20am
With 600 student signatures on a petition and a two-thirds vote from the Undergraduate Assembly, the proposed reform to the UA’s internal executive elections is now officially a referendum.
11/11/09 1:20am
After a number of on-campus dining options reduced their hours last semester, the Undergraduate Assembly responded to students’ concerns with discussion of new venues.
11/10/09 1:47am
College junior and Undergraduate Assembly member Rico Moorer was shell-shocked after he arrived, before 10:30 p.m., at a UA meeting that was already ending.
11/09/09 1:35am
Last week, College senior Natalie Vernon was re-elected as the Student Activities Council chairwoman for the next term, which lasts until February 2010.
11/06/09 5:43am
The proposal would rename the chair and vice chair for external affairs the Undergraduate Assembly "president" and "vice president."
11/03/09 12:59am
Undergraduate Assembly members became heated at Sunday’s meeting as members participated in a spirited, if not confrontational, debate.
10/29/09 11:19pm
The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Undergraduate Assembly and the Office of the Provost are working to encourage faculty to post course syllabi online.
10/29/09 3:49am
The proposal calls for the direct election of some leadership positions. Student leaders say it would give groups a greater voice in student government.
