Good morning Penn Staters, Spring Break is finally upon us! We made it through forty eight hours of dancing and the infamous State Patty’s Day drinking and partying holiday. It is about time for a nice, long break from our studies and work. But before I sign off for spring break week I have important news to talk about. This important news has to do with the resignation of T.J. Bard, the UPUA president as well as the three board of trustee positions that are going to be filled by three of eighty six candidates.
First up, President TJ Bard. President Bard has effectively resigned his office of student body president. Earlier this week, President Bard announced that he would not seek reelection for student body president. Bard is a Greencastle, Pennsylvania native and first took office as a sophomore in the year 2011. President Bard did not want to talk about his decision of not running for reelection, instead he proclaimed that he still had three weeks of work left. The Penn State Student government meeting was extremely short at less than half an hour. President Bard had been at the helm of the student government through one of the toughest years in Penn State history.
In addition to President Bard resigning his office and reelection hopes, three board of trustees members are to be replaced with three new officials. For the three positions there are eighty six candidates, which is a huge number compared to the six candidates that ran for three board seats in 2011. This just goes to show that the alumni are not exactly happy with the boards decisions in the Sandusky scandal. Although such a dark event brought out all the candidates for the board, it is refreshing to see that the alumni candidates do actually want to make a change and restore confidence in Penn State. The voting for board members is set to begin April 10th, 2012.
UPUA Meeting
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It is almost unbelieveable at how many changes we've seen occur within the past few months. The campus has been completely shaken up to a point where I almost expect to hear about another change every day. We'll see how the next few week play out.
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