The Undergraduate Assembly meeting on Sunday night focused more on general student-body interests and less on internal affairs for the first time this year.
Issues included improving the add/drop period and New Student Orientation, distributing free national newspapers to students and better management of campus security.
n The Academic Affairs Committee reported plans on improving the add/drop period to make it easier for students to shop around without missing work.
Committee plans also include Penn InTouch and Blackboard improvements.
n UA chairman and College senior Jason Karsh proposed creating an NSO Improvement Committee to consider suggestions such as starting orientation events later in the morning.
n The UA discussed joining the College Readership Program that would bring free copies of newspapers like The New York Times to campus.
Members debated which newspapers would be most popular and whether already having access to free online versions of the newspapers would diminish the value of the program.
The UA, which experimented with the program last semester, will make a formal decision soon.
n In Open Forum , UA members discussed complaints that classes are being disrupted by construction on the 38th Street Bridge, though construction is set to end in less than a week.
n Also during the forum, an audience member complained that campus security guards were absent from many street corners. The UA said it will look into this issue.
