Pasadena may have offered a rosy stress relief for the Undergraduate Student Government during the New Year, but now it's time for USG to unpack the rest of its promises to students. To give this administration's final lap more direction and focus, here is "what's in" and "what's out" for 1995:

-- In: Focused daybook planners. Student leaders need to get out their compasses, or more appropriately, daybook planners, and set firm goals to accomplish before the upcoming elections.

After losing Andrew Kreider, former USG Student Lobbying Network director, current leaders need to take the time to train freshmen interested in their program. Because the University ranks last in the Big Ten in state appropriations with a mere $259 million, student lobbying continues to be critical to its future.

And although Rose Bowl tickets and borough housing efforts were productive, students leaders must pencil in appointments to make strides toward two of last year's campaign goals: restructuring USG and expanding the HUB Eateries.

Past attempts to restructure were not worth student leaders' time and ink. For restructuring to be successful, leaders must use knowledge gained at Big Ten conferences and draft a viable student association based on other schools' systems. Restructuring was put on hold last spring because of USG elections, and leaders seem poised to repeat the mistake.

Student leaders must also allot more time to issues that interest students. A USG election referendum question revealed that out of 4,226 responses, 2,828 were in favor of franchises supplementing existing eateries. USG should make sure HUB Eateries expansion plans do not get lost in the University's red tape.

-- Out: Gone are the days of an appeased University administration. USG should act more as a watchdog of administrators and less as a dinner pal. Too many projects -- such as USG President Mike King's concerns about where student computer fee money is really spent -- have been put on hold because student leaders have had to wade through University bureaucracy. King must remember the passion he exhibited at State College Borough Council and Planning Commission meetings and use it to keep the University more accountable to students.

USG also needs to cross off its plan to redirect the responsibilities of the Student Organization Budget Committee. King recommended that the USG Senate take over SOBC's job of allocating money. The plan is merely an effort to delegate more power to the Senate and would not have a positive impact on students' everyday lives.

The current USG administration's last 100 days are as important to students as any federal government's first 100 days. Every check on your student leaders' "things to do list" must mean one more step toward improving the quality of University life for students.