Serving as a liaison between the student body and Penn administrators, the UA has the unique ability to institute change that affects the entire undergraduate population.
Fall 2013 Undergraduate Assembly Elections
Ted Kaufman, Joe Biden's right-hand man, thinks Trump's foreign policy is 'weird'
Kaufman served as a U.S. Senator for two years and currently heads the Biden Foundation
Penn faculty release petition criticizing Trump's proposed elimination of the NEH
Nearly 200 faculty members at Penn have signed a recent petition denouncing President Trump’s budget proposal, specifically the proposed plan to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Why did Penn lose a contract to train Philadelphia teachers to a school not accredited in Pennsylvania?
In a three to one vote, SRC board members passed over Penn, along with Temple, Drexel, and New York University, in favor of the Relay Graduate School of Education—an institution not accredited to award master’s degrees in Pennsylvania.
Ted Kaufman, Joe Biden's right-hand man, thinks Trump's foreign policy is 'weird'
Kaufman served as a U.S. Senator for two years and currently heads the Biden Foundation
Penn faculty release petition criticizing Trump's proposed elimination of the NEH
Nearly 200 faculty members at Penn have signed a recent petition denouncing President Trump’s budget proposal, specifically the proposed plan to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Meet the professor who teaches a 7-hour-long class called Existential Despair
Each week, the class will spend 4 1/2 hours reading a book in silence before eating dinner they cook for one another.
We want to be your elected Undergraduate Assembly President and Vice President because we have a vision for Penn’s future, and we’re the ones to make it happen.
Every year during the season of Penn Student Government elections, the student body is bombarded with signatures, platforms and the opportunity to elect a new President, Vice President and general body of the Undergraduate Assembly.
For some Red and Blue student-athletes, playing for one squad isn't enough
When one envisions a two-sport athlete, images of superhuman athleticism coupled with instant collegiate stardom may come to mind. But some two-sport competitors start like most other college athletes — being recruited for one sport.
Rothman | Penn's athletes often aren't that recognizable — and that's not all that bad
We go to Penn, where people don't remember, and probably never knew, the name of the player who screwed up in the game a few days ago. They probably don't know there was one big mistake that had a huge impact on the game at all. Most of them don't know the game was lost, or even played.
Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor: 'There are good people in any times, and those good people save the world'
Nobel Prize Laureate Roald Hoffmann spoke in Penn Hillel about his experience as a Holocaust survivor in a presentation titled, “Returning, Remembering, Forgiving.”
Clubs could be barred from activities fairs in the future for requiring resumes or failing to give sample questions before interviews
The Undergraduate Assembly and Student Activities Council have partnered to make club recruitment a less stressful and more fair process by passing six new guidelines.
Meet the Penn students who are out and about in the morning long before you wake up
For Zhou, sleep is a vital component to her well-being. The Detroit native said health is her “number one priority” and getting enough sleep allows her to work more efficiently in the mornings and throughout the day.
Joann Mitchell named Penn's first Chief Diversity Officer
Gutmann said that this role will expand “Joann’s campus-wide leadership role in making Penn a preeminent leader in diversity and inclusion,” according to the University of Pennsylvania Almanac.
Panhellenic Council to hold roundtable discussion on making sororities inclusive for transgender students
College junior Sesana Allen and Vice President of Diversity on the Panhellenic executive board said she hopes that members who have attended the roundtable discussions are encouraged to make changes within their own chapters to be more supportive of transgender members of their community.
As senior seasons come to an end, Penn student-athletes adjust to new lives
The NCAA mandates that Division I athletes can only practice for 20 hours per week. Being a student-athlete at Penn, however, is so much more than just another large weekly time commitment: it’s an identity.
Many Penn athletes flip from one team to another — but why?
Most athletes come into Penn with a plan: to play their respective sport for four years, and to ultimately live that dream of being an Ivy League athlete that they agreed to the day they committed. However, not all goes as planned.
For five Penn men's lacrosse players, brotherhood goes way past days in Red and Blue
“Preparing Boys for Life.” That is the motto of The Haverford School, an elite preparatory day school that has funneled top-end lacrosse players to Penn and across the country.
Brad Hong | Roommate counseling
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.


















