Two presidential and two vice-presidential candidates will learn tonight if they are eligible to run for those offices in the University Park Undergraduate Association when that organization's Board of Arbitration hears their appeals. Last week, the tickets containing David Adewumi and Sri Pisupati, as well as Joseph Grimes and Tyler Wentz were declared ineligible by the 2011 UPUA Elections Commission.
In light of Governor Corbett's proposed budget cuts, the University Park Undergraduate Association's Steering Committee met last night to respond as an undergraduate student government, since the General Assembly doesn't meet this week.
The list of candidates for the 2011 University Park Undergraduate Association elections has been released. Find out who's running this year for positions in Penn State's undergraduate student government.
The authority of the University Park Undergraduate Association has recently come under scrutiny, but the powers of both the UPUA and Council of Commonwealth Student Governments have increased significantly as of last night, when the UPUA passed legislation to appoint students to the Student Technology Advisory Committee. The UPUA also passed a policy three years in the making which will allow of its Board of Arbitration to select two members on the University Hearing Board, which is part of Judicial Affairs.
The EΨ chapter of the Order of Omega is back at Penn State. Order of Omega is an honor society for fraternity and sorority upperclassmen. Chartered in 1984, Penn State's chapter lay dormant for a sizeable stretch of time. But this semester, Order of Omega is having a second go at its débutante ball.
Toward the end of last night's University Park Undergraduate Association meeting, Director of Finance Steven Hitchan revealed that the UPUA budget still has $86,000 left, minus money to be spent on Movin' On and the S-Book. So there's a ton of money left to be spent (it doesn't carry over to next year) and somehow the Student Activity Fee is still going up in the fall. Go figure. All legislation except one policy was approved unanimously. The most interesting piece was a resolution that will put in place a shuttle from State College to the Lewistown Amtrak station through Nittany Express, Inc.