Working his way through the clothes and textbooks sprawled across his bedroom floor, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) President Galen Foulke sat down at his computer last Wednesday morning to send a few e-mail messages.

"I never have time to clean up," he said, explaining the dirty plate and assorted papers on the floor around his desk.

It was 7:35 a.m., and Foulke was responding to messages about meetings later in the day. He would attend seven meetings during the day, starting at 8 a.m. and ending at 9 p.m.

After buying an egg and cheese sandwich and skim milk, he was set for the day's first meeting, with USG's "We Are" campaign committee.

As committee members discussed advertising plans for upcoming events, Foulke was taking notes to bring to an 11 a.m. meeting at Penn State's Office of Physical Plant (OPP). Between those two meetings, though, Foulke was scheduled for a haircut. At 9:30 a.m, he eased into the chair, asking the hairdresser where she was from and casually commenting on the effects of current national political debate.

Then it was back to the USG office to send a few more e-mails and meet Missi Lau, the "We Are" campaign director, to go to the OPP building just north of Beaver Stadium.

Lau teased Foulke on the way to OPP about wanting his own golf cart, branded with "USG-1," to use on campus.

At OPP, the goal was to organize efforts to raise awareness about the costs of cleaning up trash students leave behind in classrooms and discuss the feasibility of some of USG's ideas.

Foulke then headed to a meeting with the accountability subcommittee of the task force on diversity at Irving's Bagels, 110 E. College Ave., to discuss the most effective ways to get student groups to adopt and adhere to whatever policies the task force eventually adopt.

After that meeting, the cash-strapped Foulke headed to Waring Dining Commons, where he could use meal points to buy lunch.

While dousing his hot dog and chicken cosmo sandwich with ketchup -- as he had done earlier with his egg and cheese sandwich -- Foulke smiled.

"Heinz ketchup is unparalleled in quality," he said.

Foulke broke from USG-related work to study in Pollock Library from 2:30 to 4 p.m., reading about the effect of aging on the human skin. The aspiring doctor is taking two classes on aging and death this semester.

At 5 p.m., it was time for a meeting regarding a student bill of rights, something Foulke has been involved with since last year's USG Senate commissioned it.

When that meeting ended earlier than he anticipated, Foulke returned to the office to go over a 20-item to-do list with his chief of staff, Erin Ferris, to talk about the status of various activities within the executive branch.

Once their impromptu meeting was done, Foulke spotted a box of grilled stickies from the Ye Olde College Diner, 126 W. College Ave. Despite comments that the stickies were stale, he managed to finish the box.

Then it was time for a 6:30 p.m. meeting of the USG Senate Operations Committee, where Foulke interjected a few ideas to jumpstart some of the committee's projects, including student parking concerns.

Pizza dinner in the lower level of the HUB-Robeson Center was quick enough to have him back in the office to pick up a notebook and get to an 8:30 p.m. meeting of USG's executive cabinet.

Foulke walked USG webmaster Matt Burnett back to his dorm room after the meeting for a look at the upcoming USG Web site, which he said he hopes will become a source of information about USG-related events.

Around 11 p.m. Foulke said he needed to get to bed early to get up for next day's 12-hour Alumni Association meeting.