With meetings getting increasingly shorter, the Undergraduate Assembly is trying to improve efficiency during meetings while still addressing a wide range of issues.

Some topics from last Sunday's meeting include:

n The UA Housing Committee is working with Housing and Conference Services to improve the housing-application process.

The goal is to make it easier for students to apply for on-campus housing. They do not yet have a plan for making these improvements.

Changes may include eliminating the community-living programs and allowing up to eight students to live together without having to complete a community-living application.

n UA Housing is also working with the HCS to bring in-house tutoring services to College Houses as well as thicker brands of toilet paper.

n Facilities co-chairwoman and College senior Sarah Abroms announced that Van Pelt Library will be open until 2 a.m. starting Monday, Nov. 26.

In previous years, extended hours did not begin until Reading Days, usually during the beginning of December.

n Members discussed ways to develop the UA Alumni Fund, created two years ago to allow UA alumni to contribute money to UA activities as a way of giving back.

Money from the fund will go toward student-based projects - the UA will begin soliciting donations next semester. Specific projects have not yet been outlined.