The trial ended last Tuesday night at roughly 2:30 a.m. -- Undergraduate Student Government (USG) President Galen Foulke will remain in office. The impeachment charges received less than half of the needed two-thirds to remove Foulke from his seat.

With this news, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief -- there won't have to be a complete change of power in USG; the constitution can now be completely re-worked; and one of the hardest working leaders at Penn State can remain where he is supposed to be: in office.

All throughout the impeachment process, many people have complained about the ineffectiveness of USG. Everyday students talked about the governing body. Letters to the editor at the Collegian proclaimed that USG was little more than a group of students "playing politician."

Well, when the Academic Assembly tries to impeach its president for trying to enact changes to the outdated USG Constitution, it is an ineffective body and makes the members look like children in oversized suits and power ties, who cannot agree on anything.

We hope that the Academic Assembly gets the message from the student body loud and clear. We want a student government that sets feasible goals, tries to achieve these goals, and listens to the students, not a bunch of kids with briefcases taking out personal vendettas against one another.

Look at how much this impeachment procedure has cost students, two weeks out of a roughly 30-week term in Foulke's presidency. With the limited time, USG cannot afford to humdrum around with faux-law suits, unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

If the president of USG did not show up to meetings or had an affair in the office in the HUB-Robeson Center, hey, maybe that would be worth impeaching the guy.

But trying to rework the USG Constitution with a non-biased third party? Some power-tripping student government members really need to relax.

Foulke had repeated the mantra that he wanted the trial to be over so that he could get back to USG, and help affect changes that would benefit students.

The students have been supportive of Foulke, and hopefully, this impeachment process won't turn off students to USG.

Now, it's time for USG to get back to work, and try to have people talking about them for other things, like re-vamping the USG Constitution and helping out the entire student body.

If USG changes the constitution to bypass disputes like this, it may have part of the battle over, and become effective to students at Penn State.