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Following an uncontested race, this year’s voter turnout for the Undergraduate Assembly presidency came in at just 29 percent — the lowest total since the position became popularly elected in 2010, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced.
Friday night, the Nominations and Elections Committee presented the results of the spring 2013 student government elections. College and Wharton junior Abe Sutton won the presidency uncontested, while College sophomore Gabe Delaney won a close election for vice president against Wharton sophomore Christian Cortes.
Being a dual-degree student is supposed to forward your goals, but for College and Wharton freshman Sebastian Negron-Reichard, it was more of an obstacle.
Rapper Tyga will be coming to Penn on April 12 as the first Spring Fling opening artist. Tyga, born Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson, came to fame with songs like “Faded,” “Roger That” and the megahit “Rack City”.
Vice presidential candidates in the Undergraduate Assembly Gabe Delaney, a College sophomore, and Christian Cortes, a Wharton sophomore, gathered to participate in the first debate of the election cycle, moderated by The Daily Pennsylvanian.
In a poll conducted over the course of the week from March 11 to 16, The Daily Pennsylvanian sought to measure students’ perceptions of the political efficacy of student government. The major questions of the survey included which issues students wanted to see addressed, how important student government was to their lives and whether students felt they could have their needs addressed by student government in a personal way.
This year the election season is seeing a striking number of new candidates. By the numbers in the Undergraduate Assembly elections, there are 24 people running for 16 College seats, nine running for five Wharton seats, and two running for one Nursing seat. Only the Engineering seats will go uncontested.
In preparation for Spring Fling next month, the Social Planning and Events Committee’s Spring Fling committee has sponsored a new series of events, called Fling Fridays, for the past three weeks.
After a round of discussion last week, the official budget now proposes to give the Student Activities Council $1,065,790.13 —around a 6.5 percent increase from last year.
In the face of the administration’s diversity controversy, the Undergraduate Assembly Steering Committee met Tuesday night to discuss how diversity in the higher levels of the University impacts student groups.
Thursday night, the Student Activities Council elected College junior Jen Chaquette as its new chair. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Chaquette to discuss her goals for the upcoming year, along with SAC’s newest funding moratorium.
For the second time in less than two years, the Student Activities Council has issued a moratorium that will prevent new student groups from receiving recognition and funding.