A commission to review the structure of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and its constitution will hold an open student forum at 7:30 tonight in 101 Thomas Building.

The Constitutional Review Committee, a platform goal of USG President Galen Foulke and Vice President Luke Adams, has been working since November to improve the current form of student government.

Foulke said changing student government to improve student life was a goal of their administration this year.

"I spent a year in the organization as a senator, and it was obvious and apparent right off the bat that the organization was not set up for the student advocacy it required," he said. "After doing a lot of research and talking to a lot of people, you find that USG is considered widely irrelevant because of all the infighting."

For the committee, Foulke appointed a student and faculty commissioner who then chose a confidential eight-member committee of students, faculty and administrators.

Jeff Corbets, the committee's student chairman, said the sheer amount of research has made the task very difficult.

"We wanted to see what's going on not only at Penn State, but what's currently happening at other schools similar to Penn State -- especially Big Ten schools," he said.

Corbets said the committee is unsure when the recommendations will be fully completed. The committee plans to work into the summer and possibly into next fall.

Corbets added that he hopes students will bring their ideas for student advocacy and government at Penn State.

Foulke said he is amazed at the progress completed by the committee. "Because they are an independent commission, they do not have to report to me," he said. "But they have been working very briskly."

Foulke said even if not re-elected to office, he will try to get the recommendations accepted. "It will be more difficult," he said, "but our focus is to get these recommendations adopted."

Foulke added that the completion of the constitutional recommendations would mark the close of the pair's platform goals from last year's campaign.

He said some of last year's goals might take a few more years, but the majority of the pair's platforms have been achieved.

Foulke said he wanted eLion to update every 10 seconds for students, but due to a single server, that might cause an overload and a crash.

And although he and Adams wanted to extend Rec Hall gym hours, ongoing expansions to the building have made that impossible.

Foulke added that administrators have seemed very receptive to extending hours after the renovations are done.

Off-campus parking maps that display parking areas, prices and contact information, were presented to and accepted by the USG Senate Tuesday night.

Since December, Foulke said, the promotion and advertisement of 865-WALK, a student escort service provided by Penn State University Police, has also been a "huge" accomplishment.

Adams said he is proud of the Web site completed this March that displays the wait time and occupancy at on-campus fitness facilities. "We were originally going to have a Web cam at the White Building, but this is better because now it's every facility instead of one," he said. "This will benefit more students."