Fraud Accused

While Harvard's new campus-wide student government is just starting out, many students at the University of Pennsylvania are trying to put theirs to bed.

In a recent university-wide referendum 39 percent of the students voting said they would be better off without any government at all. At the same time, however, some student leaders were calling the election biased and fraudulent.

"Everyone with an ounce of integrity should abdicate," newly elected College representative Andrea Ploscowe said. "I wish I lost so I could say I got hammered by this biased election."

Objectors to the election based most of their complaints on figures released before voting by Penn's Nominations and Elections Committee which showed more than 11,000 undergraduates eligible to vote in the elections. Official estimates generally place the university's student body at between 8000 and 9000. --The Daily Pennsylvanian