Today, students across campus will be participating in the final leg of one of the most crowded Student Government elections in recent history.Though the Next Level ticket only received 29.76 percent of the vote in the general election, recent campaign developments may suggest a shift in the campaign’s number of supporters.After their defeats in last Tuesday’s general election, two of the five participating ticket leaders pledged their support for the Next Level’s presidential and vice presidential candidates, Andy Palermo and Phoebe Hathorn.Former presidential candidates Ari Krupkin and Greg Upton of the Unity ’09 and One Voice ’09 campaigns, respectively, endorsed Palermo and Hathorn on Friday in a press conference. Though support of Krupkin and Upton made up 30.47 percent of the vote in the general election, Palermo said his ticket hasn’t changed much since it began campaigning.”I think the real reason they are supporting us is the common understanding that we have been in SG and know what is going on inside SG,” Palermo said. While Palermo said he didn’t support every issue his former rivals proposed, he said if elected, his administration would pick up feasible ideas from other campaign’s push cards.Palermo’s push card contained 25 points of interest his campaign has vowed to change if elected. During his campaign, Palermo has said his potential administration would work with the University to establish a true dead week before final exams. Palermo said he would go straight to Vice Chancellor and Provost Katrice Albert and request the University enforce a policy prohibiting tests, papers and projects on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before finals week.”The biggest hurdle with that is getting the professors to cooperate because they’re too used to being able to do it if it’s on their syllabus,” Hathorn said.Next Level leaders have proposed keeping the University dining halls open until at least 9 p.m. and offering students healthier menu options.David Hiedke, director of LSU Dining, said the plan hinged on increased costs for meal plans and how much longer hours would cost in terms of dining hall employment. Palermo also included in his list of proposed changes a motion to reserve the Hart parking lot for student commuters and Tiger Band members during football games.”Students pay for passes, and they should be able to utilize them, especially on game day,” Hathorn said.Gary Graham, director of the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation, said the real issue was how much money would be available to cover such a lot and who would be responsible for paying for it.Graham said the idea has the potential for trouble because it would be difficult to identify commuters, who could give their parking passes to non-students for game day. Graham said he didn’t understand the need to hold a particular lot for campus commuters.Palermo’s push card calls for an extension of the time period students have to appeal parking tickets.”It’s doable,” Graham said. “It is just a matter of how much time we’re talking about and getting through the University administration.”Graham also commented on a plan shared by both the More ‘09 and the Next Level tickets to reroute University buses through campus during school days. He said it would be fairly simple for the University to adjust bus routes, and it was unlikely to cause problems.Both tickets still in the run-off have made environmental sustainability an issue throughout their campaigns. However, Palermo  said his campaign focuses on accomplishable sustainability issues.Palermo said many of the issues the More ‘09 campaign has put forward have already been debated in SG and are likely not feasible if they have not already been implemented.The SG Senate proposed condensing night classes into just a few buildings, a plank in the More ‘09 campaign, several months ago. Palermo said because each building on campus has instructor offices, he had been told it was impossible to close the buildings at night.—-Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]