400 pull all-nighter to fight cancer
Last Saturday night, hundreds of Penn students stayed up until 7 a.m., and it wasn't because they were partying.
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Last Saturday night, hundreds of Penn students stayed up until 7 a.m., and it wasn't because they were partying.
David Roth wasn't always a success in business. He has dabbled in consulting and publishing and even sold frozen steaks at Sears while in college.
Political analyst and former journalist Richard Reeves has spent decades watching the political scene, and Tuesday evening he revealed several little-known facts about three U.S. presidents.
After a spring semester in which the University Council cancelled two meetings for lack of discussion topics, members say that issues are back on the table and they are filling the chairs.
After a free Penn Transit ride carried over 700 students to the Philadelphia airport before Thanksgiving, the Undergraduate Assembly is contemplating a similar service for those going home for the December holidays.
According to Class of 2008 President Puneet Singh, the state of the school is "damn good."
Administrators say that they are "shocked" that Undergraduate Assembly members have accused them of deliberately misleading students about construction projects on campus.
Student groups are uniting to expand the University's limited recycling programs, and they hope that their combined efforts will force administrators to pay attention.
The Undergraduate Assembly accused University real estate officials of deliberately misleading students about projects that will limit outdoor recreation space.
The Undergraduate Assembly wants to make sure that students have a say in Penn's growth east.
Once students get to know South Street and Center City's day- and nightlife by heart, there is still another section of Philadelphia left for them to explore: Manayunk.
Efforts to increase the recruitment and representation of Native Americans on campus have been moving forward with the support of both students and administrators.
The Undergraduate Assembly finally concluded its quest to remodel student representation on a University governing body last night. After months of debate among student leaders, the UA passed a proposal in favor of the Nominations and Elections Committee's new seat-allocation process for the University Council. The NEC, a group that runs student elections and nominates representatives for various University committees, came under fire last spring for the process it used to appoint members of "mis- or under-represented" student groups to the UC. The UC is an organization of administrators, faculty, staff and students that meets monthly to discuss campus issues. Critics spoke out against the ambiguous nature of the selection criteria and the lack of transparency in the process, which occurs behind closed doors and is conducted by self-selected NEC members. The new proposal stipulates that the NEC will select six delegates to the University Council, as opposed to the former five. The UA will have nine representatives on the body -- as opposed to the original 10 -- and the United Minorities Council will continue to have one. The new seat-allocation procedure also addresses the transparency issue by permitting a UA member to observe the application, interview and deliberation process as long as he or she is not an executive board member of one of the applicant groups. The changes will not go into effect until the 2006-2007 school year aside from a new attendance policy, which will go into effect immediately. As an accountability measure, the new attendance policy mandates that UA members cannot miss more than two UC meetings. NEC-appointed UC representatives may not miss more than four meetings. Also discussed was the authority the UA should wield in approving the NEC's six choices. As it stands, UA members can vote to approve the final selections based on any criteria, including their personal feelings about selected groups. "These seats do have the UA's name on them. If we're just going to let the NEC do their thing, then I'm not sure why they're UA seats," UA member and College senior Wesley Nakamura said. "There's an approval process for a reason. It's a check and balance," he said. Others felt that the UA should not be allowed to criticize the final choices and should only be able to vote on whether the NEC followed its outlined procedure. "We have a group that takes their job very seriously and follows this detailed process. ... I don‹¨«t think we should be rehashing their choices," said UA Vice Chairman of External Affairs and Wharton junior Brett Thalmann. UA Vice Chairman and College senior Zack Rosenblum said that since the entire UA body is not present during the NEC's deliberations, the UA should not approve UC selections based on the merit of chosen groups. "If we feel NEC is the best group to handle that job. ... We must affirm their decision unless they went about their decision inadequately," he said. Despite some disagreement on the proposal's technicalities, most UA members supported the document as a whole. Twenty-five UA members voted in favor of the proposal, with two voting against and three abstaining. "There was never a procedural document prior to this point. With the addition of a seat, I believe it is a fair process, and it is a marked improvement from what we had before," Rosenblum said. "I think it's great that the UA has taken into account ... what our constituents want. ... It was a hectic end to a long debate, but it was still rewarding," UA Chairwoman and College senior Rachel Fersh said.
Students at Penn may soon have a new, legal way for downloading music.
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is wrapping up later this week, but fundraising efforts at Penn are still going strong.
Last week, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced Wharton freshman Jonathan Hefter as the new Class of 2009 president. Between taking salsa dancing lessons, classes and organizing class-wide events, Hefter has his hands full. Nevertheless, he made time to sit down with The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The Undergraduate Assembly is making progress in its quest to increase both its accountability and the involvement of the student body as a whole.
The results are in -- at last.
Freshman student-government candidates defended themselves yesterday against accusations that they used the popular networking site facebook.com for early campaigning.
The Undergraduate Assembly's newest long-term initiative has nothing to do with on-campus housing or dining.