The 46th session of the Student Assembly is scheduled to meet Thursday with the newly elected college representatives and will be seated for the next year. ASMSU held elections for representatives last week and the results are expected to be released early this week.

The current session’s chairpersons will remain in their positions until the new assembly elects chairs April 23.

College of Social Science representative Alex Freitag, who plans to graduate in May, said he enjoyed his first and only year with ASMSU.

“We made a lot of changes that needed to be made and they got a lot done,” he said.

The current session was highlighted by many events such as iVote in September, which brought hip-hop artist Nas and alternative rock band Brand New to campus, along with encouraging students to register to vote.

“That was the launch of what we hope to be a legacy of programming,” Webber said. “We have an events coordinator (who) was hired last session. We also had one other concert (Lupe Fiasco with Asher Roth in February). We’re doing co-sponsorships with other groups on campus like (University Activities Board) and (Residence Halls Association).”

One other initiative started by the assembly is the Collegiate Readership Program, which will begin Monday.

The program will allow students to pick up a free copy of The New York Times, USA Today, the Detroit Free Press and Financial Times, Webber said.

“We are hoping for very good things for the readership program,” said Kyle Dysarz, Student Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs.

There will be 28 campus locations where students can grab a copy of a newspaper. Financial Times will only be available in the Business College Complex.

“For residence halls, we tried to hit every complex and the high traffic areas for the academic buildings,” Dysarz said.

The four-week trial for the program is free, but Webber said ASMSU plans to fund the program next year.

“(We), hopefully, along with other places in the university, are going to throw funds together and fund it for one full year so we can get a bigger picture for more than one month and see if the program is truly successful,” he said. “We’re planning to put to a referendum after next year to see if students want to continue the program because we wouldn’t be able to fund it on our own for more than one year.”

Webber plans to graduate in May and join the Peace Corps or attend graduate school. Dysarz plans to run for Student Assembly chairperson of the 46th session.

“I want to continue some of the projects that were started this year,” he said.