Rosenberger said he wishes he and Morgan could have made more progress on their platform goals, but he feels as though achieving those goals was only a small part of his job.
"Those are the things you promised, those are the projects you're going to work on, but to represent the students is not about the SRTEs," Rosenberger said. "Those are the things you work on when you have the time to push for it, but a lot of my time this year was taken up with reacting to everyday student problems."
Morgan said he thinks he and Rosenberger were most successful with their lighting initiative.
State College Borough Council agreed to increase lighting in problematic areas downtown -- a four-year project that will cost more than $1 million. Also, poor lighting on campus has been fixed, and several new lights have been added.
The lighting initiative came at a time when the State College area had an increase in sexual assaults and more demand for safety downtown and on campus.
"It also further pushed sexual assault into the mainstream of people's minds, that this is an issue, and we need to do every single thing we possibly can to affect this issue," Morgan said.
He added that he initially did not want to run his campaign on specific platform goals because he believes the only way to change the university is through student mobilization.
Those who worked with Rosenberger and Morgan said the pair's greatest accomplishment has been what they have done for USG's image by making it more visible and accessible to students.
Town Sen. Kristen Kofmehl said Rosenberger and Morgan were an effective administration, even though they could not fulfill all of their platform goals.
"I know Ian specifically reached a lot of people who weren't really involved in USG. Ian was very charismatic. He worked really well as the figurehead of USG this year," Kofmehl said.
South Halls Sen. Ace Ekhtiarzadeh, who has been involved in USG for three years, said Rosenberger's approachability set him apart from past USG presidents.
"More than what he did with his platform goals, he had a positive attitude, and a new positive culture came into the office. I think people fed off of that. Galen's got huge, huge shoes to fill next year," Ekhtiarzadeh said, referring to USG President-elect Galen Foulke.
Foulke and USG Vice President-elect Luke Adams said they believe Rosenberger and Morgan have helped make USG more available to students.
"In the past, people kind of thought USG was exclusive to the second floor up here, but Ian was down with the students, and he was just out there, and the average student saw that," Adams said.
Rosenberger and Morgan said the organization needs to be redefined to better fulfill its purpose of serving students.
"My personal opinion is that USG should not be even defined as a government, because it seems to me the word 'government' confuses student leaders," Morgan said.
He added that the U.S. government is based on a system of checks and balances to prevent one branch from acquiring too much power, but "to do that within USG makes no sense at all because one group of students in USG could never overtake the school or the student body."
Rosenberger said USG needs to improve its relationship with student organizations on campus.
"The issue is: What is the health and culture of our greater community? That's the biggest issue, and right now, I don't think it's healthy," Rosenberger said.
Morgan addressed this issue during the USG election night celebration March 31 when he took the stage and told the audience, "Wake the fuck up."
After the incident, Morgan said USG has lost focus on its purpose of working for the students instead of pursuing personal interests.
Rosenberger said students need to understand the message behind Morgan's comment.
"Takkeem said to 'wake up.' While I was hurt and upset and angry ... it's important that we are invariably connected to the rest of the world, and we have a responsibility to each other. So, that's huge -- that we give a damn about one another at Penn State," Rosenberger said.
Now that their terms have come to an end this week, Rosenberger and Morgan are looking for other ways to give back to their communities.
Rosenberger said he plans to either pursue a career as a director on a movie set, attend graduate school in Hawaii or spend time in Africa increasing AIDS awareness.
He said he might eventually consider running for a political office.
Morgan hopes to work for Teach for America before returning to graduate school to study public administration and law.
