During the open student forum at last night's Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Academic Assembly meeting, a USG multicultural affairs co-director said he was concerned by the lack of diversity in the assembly.

"Minorities are under-represented at Academic Assembly," Mark Bagley said. "You all need to take initiative and interact with the 36 multicultural groups on campus."

Bagley told assembly members to talk to their respective college's multicultural committees.

"Your work has to include the minority students. Minorities need the opportunity to be leaders," he said. "The needs of minority students are not the needs of regular people."

USG President Galen Foulke said Academic Assembly needs to do its best to represent everybody at the university.

Foulke said he is concerned that he and some of the assembly members don't understand the problem.

"A lot of the majority are inexperienced with communicating and relating with minorities," Foulke said. "We need to do our best to represent every student at Penn State."

Several assembly members were upset with Bagley's comments.

Sen. Ashley Harris from the College of the Liberal Arts said Bagley made "incorrect presumptions and used rumors as facts."

Sen. Josh Hauenstein from the College of Engineering said Bagley should politely address the assembly, and not "attack" them.

Assembly President Mark Levin did not offer any comment on the issue.

In other assembly business, an executive order was passed last night 14-1-2, moving the Off-Campus Student Union (OCSU) move-out deadline back to Oct. 1. The order sought the OSCU removal from the USG office because the union has not been a part of USG for more than a year.

The members of the OCSU still maintain a desk, a telephone and files in the USG office, which now have to be removed by Oct. 1., according to the order.

Levin said Foulke originally asked the OCSU to move out by Oct. 1, but changed the date to Oct. 22 to accommodate the group's involvement in the Sesquicentennial Games.

Levin said the OSCU has had a sufficient amount of time to remove its materials from the USG office, however, and did not need the time extension.

"We shouldn't allow them to still have space in the office," he said.

"The Chess Club or the Monty Python Society would theoretically be allowed to have a desk in the USG office if we allow [the OSCU] to," Levin added.