Becky Bailey

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Voting for the referendum calling for a change in the Undergraduate Assembly’s elections process officially begins at midnight tonight.

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.

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.

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.

At the Undergraduate Assembly’s shortest meeting of the semester — less than an hour — the group passed a resolution to support Native American students.