Campaign supporters cheered as Undergraduate Student Government (USG) executive candidates debated a wide range of questions last night during the final event before tomorrow's elections.

One point of contention throughout the night was Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness (SRTE) forms, which some tickets have said they want to improve or to make additions.

When asked what his hardest platform goal to achieve is, presidential candidate Ian Rosenberger said it would be making SRTE results public. Although many faculty and administration members are against this, he said the goal is managable with strong support from students.

In his rebuttal, presidential candidate Tim Dorman said that when Penn State President Graham Spanier addressed the USG Academic Assembly last semester, he was adamant about keeping SRTE results private -- in effect making Rosenberger's goal not feasible.

"SRTEs are not a feasible goal and they should not be pursued by the student government," Dorman said.

He also responded to a similar goal of candidates David Davis and Sara Ryan by saying that the course evaluator on the The Daily Jolt Web site can be improved.

Ryan said her ticket wants to add objective rather than subjective questions that would not affect grade inflation, and answers to those questions can be made public.

Presidential candidate Sandip Trivedi said in his rebuttal that all candidates should have one goal in mind that would be the hardest: lowering tuition.

Another question asked Ryan how her ticket would address the type of internal conflict that was prevalent in USG this year.

"David [Davis] and I believe that through a lot of structural changes going on now, communications will improve and these internal conflicts will no longer exist," Ryan said, referring to USG's debating of bylaw changes this week.

But Trivedi had different ideas in mind.

"We don't think there's a need for USG Senate [to exist]," he said. Trivedi said the group is simply a bureaucracy of 30 students who decide where $20,000 goes.

Another question asked presidential candidate Steven Weiss where he stands on diversity in the curriculum.

He said the current mode of thinking is not proactive, and more should be done before death threats and other racial problems resurface. Professors should begin race dialogues before anything else happens on campus, he said.

Presidential candidate Chris Clermont said that sometimes professors do not know how to incorporate diversity into classes, and they should attend training programs on how do to so.

In his closing statement, vice presidential candidate Takkeem Morgan said USG has the potential to do great things, but they need to keep one thing in mind.

"The leadership of USG must distinguish ... between managing students and leading them," he said.

Vice presidential candidate Robyn Ricketts did not attend the debate. Mike Aiello, vice presidential candidate, left the debate early.