Aldo Barovero. Roger Czulewicz. Courtney Malveaux. Leslie Osborn. Mark Stewart. Jim Van Horn.

Do you know who these people are?

You should. One of them will be the next Undergraduate Student Government president. He or she will serve as the liaison between the University administration and the students.

Here are the candidates and some of their main goals:

-- Write-in candidate Barovero hopes to restructure USG's legislative branch while maintaining USAB and Academic Assembly, to eliminate the office of USG vice president and to visit Harrisburg to address recent state funding cuts to the University.

-- Czulewicz and running mate Janine Salomone plan to address inadequate student health care and understaffing at Ritenour Health Center, to help eliminate tuition increases and to address inadequate student parking. They have also expressed concern about communication between USG leaders and the student body.

-- Malveaux and vice presidential candidate Saul Trieman want to stop USG infighting, funding for radical speakers and backing of left-wing political issues. They plan to redirect the USG Department of Women's Concerns and create three new departments to address financial, academic and community services.

-- Osborn and Michael LaFlam want to create a Department of Higher Education Affordability to fight tuition increases and open University budget expenditures. They also plan to increase student representation on University committees and increase involvement with the State College Borough Council.

-- Stewart and Merryl Werber plan to increase and improve student services such as allowing students to use their meal points downtown, providing buses to away basketball and football games, adding weekend HUB Eatery hours and establishing an 800 number for class scheduling.

-- Van Horn and Kim Thorsen plan to restructure USG by combining the USG Senate, Academic Assembly and USAB into a 40-member USG Assembly, lobby the University's Board of Trustees for an open budget, bring fast food restaurants into HUB eateries and extend HUB student organization office hours.

Perhaps the biggest issue to surface in this year's USG election is the inclusion of the sexual orientation clause into the University's non-discrimination policy.

Czulewicz/Salomone and Malveaux/Trieman do not support adding a sexual orientation clause to the University's non-discrimination policy. The other candidates support the clause.

In the end it is up to the voters to decide which issues are most important.

Know the facts. Go to the USG election debate at 7 tonight in Findlay Commons in East Halls and the final debate at 7 p.m. Thursday in the HUB Assembly Room. And vote wisely, because the direction of the University is in your hands.