Issue date: 5/2/08 Section: Opinion

CHEERS

• To student political groups, for their impressive efforts in increasing voter turnout to record levels in the Pennsylvania primary.

• To the University, for unveiling a bold financial-aid plan that will replace loans with grants and greatly increase the affordability of a Penn education to middle-income students.

• To the administration, for finally appointing a sustainability coordinator.

• To Women's Lacrosse for becoming No. 1 in the country, Women's Soccer for winning the Ivy League, Women's Squash for finishing second in the Howe Cup and golfer Michael Blodgett for winning the Ivy League championship.

• To the University's Speaker Advisory Committee and the Trustee Committee on Honorary Degrees, for choosing an innovative and pragmatic leader, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as this year's commencement speaker.

• To the University, for giving students a useful course-planning tool that makes the registration process much easier.

• To Mayor Michael Nutter, for prioritizing education and crime in his first budget plan.

• To the University, for increasing graduate student stipends.

• To the administration, for quickly finding a new Admissions dean to replace former dean Lee Stetson.

• To the Social Planning and Events Committee, for choosing popular artists and holding a successful Spring Fling concert.

• To President Amy Gutmann, for winning a leadership award from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania.



JEERS

• To the administration, for selling off a valuable piece of Penn's history by changing the name of Logan Hall to Claudia Cohen Hall.

• To the City, for consistently rejecting community input and continuing ahead with its flawed design for the new South Street Bridge.

• To the administration, for doing the RIAA's legal work and forwarding letters from the organization to students.

• To the Undergraduate Assembly and the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, for failing to come to an agreement over funding for the Wine Tasting Preceptorial. The budget battle ended up harming other preceptorials.

• To the administration and Class Boards, for failing to resolve the problems caused by holding Hey Day on Tuesday afternoon.

• To the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, for making a mountain out of a molehill in response to the Punch Bowl's "Diversity" issue.

• To the Nominations and Elections Committee, for passing increasingly complicated and convoluted rules that overregulate the student election process.

• To the Athletics Department, for trying to ban the "Hey" song from basketball games.

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