Archive for March, 2007
UPAC Demands 1.4M From Triponey-Created Fee Board
In a surprising power-play, the leadership of UPAC has requested nearly 1.4 million from Vicky Triponey’s vichhi-France like-Funding Allocation Board (FAB). Before FAB’s take-over of the Student Activity Fee, UPAC was the sole distributor of student activity monies. Now with FAB, students don’t actually have control over their own activity fee at all — all [...]
UPUA Inches Closer Toward Merger With USG
UPUA, the up-and-coming student government at Penn State, will meet this Sunday and decide on the fate of the proposed merger with ex-government USG, led by President Nick Stathes. UPUA’s Internal Development Committee has drafted a resolution that would accept the terms imposed by the USG Trust in order to successfully acquire the Trust’s roughly [...]
ARHS, UPAC Elections ‘Disappointing’
I think the headline says it all, but for more information, you can read this piece from The Daily Collegian. Our good friend Ian Brown writes: About 300 students voted in last night’s residence area government/University Park Allocations Committee elections, an election official said — 600 less people than last year’s election. “I’ll be honest [...]
Mayor Welch Opens The Lines Of Communication
According to a story in the today’s issue of The Daily Collegian, Mayor Bill Welch and other county leaders held a question-and-answer session with members of the Penn State student community last night. Staffer Ian Brown writes: The questions touched on a broad array of topics, but most focused on the issue of alcohol use [...]
Triponey Throws UPUA $6,000 From Student Affairs
Vice President (read: Overlord) for Student Affairs Dr. Vicky Triponey has given the newly christened student government, the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA), $6,000 in starter funds to help run spring elections and go toward other initiatives. UPUA is noticeably starting to fracture — its members’ personal dissagreements with one another are starting to be [...]
UPUA Representative Frustrated With Lack of Power
I am writing as a current elected student representative hoping to clarify what can best be described as obfuscation in regard to the Article entitled “Admin. Stays ‘hands-off’ in merger”. Although I applaud Dr. McGinty for champing this proposal that unites a fractured student populace, however, the assertion that the student government is involved in [...]
