Though the semester ends today, work is just beginning for the leaders of Penn State's student government.

They share common goals, including a focus on lobbying and internal procedures as well as a concern about the borough installing surveillance cameras downtown.

Undergraduate Student Government President Rubina Javeri said she and USG Vice President Kris Ankarlo will work on implementing their platform goals this summer.

She has already met with representatives from Housing and Food Services about extending the hours of on-campus eateries and representatives from University Health Services about expanding services online.

Javeri said they will also work on establishing a union of off-campus students and an updated apartment guide.

"The next three months are a good time to work with platform goals," she said.

USG Senate President Bridget Van Osten said senate will be working on several projects during the summer, even though the body does not officially meet.

She plans to look at senate's bylaws and election code as well as consider a more stringent procedure for allocating money to student groups.

Van Osten and Ankarlo said they plan to attend State College Borough Council meetings in the event council discusses installing surveillance cameras on Beaver Avenue.

"That is going to be a big battle," Ankarlo said.

Council of Commonwealth Student Governments President Mike Cooper said the group is working on implementing a workshop for students coming to University Park from the Commonwealth Campuses in time for next January's Housing Fair.

CCSG is also looking to raise student awareness of Career Services -- which is offered at all Commonwealth Campuses -- and make it a higher priority to students and administrators university-wide.

"It's severely underfunded and underutilized by students," Cooper said. "Right now, Career Services is lowest on the totem pole. Our goal is to change that."

He said they will begin lobbying over the summer, possibly with USG. Van Osten and Ankarlo said USG is planning summer lobbying efforts as well.

"We're going to start representing concerns as far as tuition increases," Cooper said.

USG Academic Assembly President D. Josh Troxell said assembly will be working with Residence Life on a mentoring program that will begin this fall. He described it as similar to an involvement fair, and it would connect students with a mentor from their colleges. The idea would be to get them more involved in advising issues and their college governments.

Assembly will also be focusing on diversity projects, including an assembly proposal recently approved by a University Faculty Senate committee that supports changing the diversity course requirement to allow for more independent and group work. Those are the two issues assembly will be looking at over the summer, and members will be around to take student concerns, he said.

"We don't really start up again until the fall," he said. "Especially with the academic issues, a lot of them are ongoing projects."

Van Osten said the work done during the next few months will be about creating a solid foundation to prepare for when senate meets again in the fall.

"It'll be good to be laying a lot of groundwork," she said. "It's not saying we're not going to get anything done over the summer."