by Zachary McKay | Apr 26, 2021
Friends, Thank you for allowing me to represent you to Penn State’s administration, elected officials, and many others as your University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) Student Body President this past year. You may think my favorite part of the job was the...
by Zachary McKay | Apr 11, 2021
If there’s something that’s become more and more obvious to me over the course of the last year, it’s that we could all afford to take a break from time to time. Taking classes and meetings over Zoom video calls day in and day out for hours on end has become really...
by Zachary McKay | Apr 4, 2021
Students living in State College are typically released from University Park for the summer before spring municipal elections take place. This means that many students are unable to exercise their right to vote in the place they spend a majority of their time...
by Zachary McKay | Mar 28, 2021
Note:Did you know that you can write legislation even if you aren’t a Representative or a Senator? That’s right — anyone can write drafts of various laws they’d like to see changed, bills they’d like to see Congress or their state government pass, and policies they’d...
by Zachary McKay | Mar 21, 2021
Since even before taking office in the student government, Lexy Pathickal and I felt it important that the individuals in the position of student body president and vice president interacted with their fellow peers through a variety of different ways, one of which was...
by Zachary McKay | Mar 7, 2021
As one of the core tenets of our campaign for Student Body President and Vice President, my friend Lexy Pathickal and I have been working hard to instill the idea of transparency in all that we do as a student government. Recently, we were able to uphold a campaign...
by Zachary McKay | Feb 28, 2021 |
This semester, I decided to take a class offered through Students Teaching Students (STS) called “Act Now for a Sustainable Future.” Despite its course ID — BA 397 — it is not business administration-related. Its instructors, Nora Van Horn and Madison Mitchell, have...
by Zachary McKay | Feb 21, 2021
Below is an address delivered by Lexy Pathickal and I regarding the increasing number of Zoom-bombings which have been occurring at virtual Penn State events. The attacks have generally included racist rhetoric, slurs, and worse. As the Undergraduate Student Body...
by Zachary McKay | Feb 14, 2021 |
Of the problems which I have taken a keen sense of ownership and responsibility in tackling at Penn State, low participation by students in elections is the one I’ve spent the most time trying to solve. In 2019, leading the student government’s Governmental Affairs...
by Zachary McKay | Feb 8, 2021
This year, just over five-thousand people—about 12% of eligible voters—voted in the elections for the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA), Penn State UP’s undergraduate student government. This is an increase of about 600 voters from last year. The...
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