Senior Vice Provost Peter Jones spoke on a slew of topics for the majority of the Temple Student Government general assembly meeting on Nov. 4 in room 200c of the student center.

Speaking to an audience of roughly 200 people, Jones mostly explained the e-SFF data which is now available on TUportal. This is a database which is in its first semester of full activation, containing student reviews of all Temple teachers.

Jones argued that this new system is more reliable than the popular ratemyprofessor.com since the e-SFF data was collected from students guaranteed to have taken that teacher.

Of all the multiple-answer and open-ended questions filled out by students on the s-SFF forms, only four of the multiple choice questions go into the grading of the teachers on the viewable reviews.

The system caught a lot of student flak for its policy which requires students to have participated in the review process in the spring semester in order to access the grading reviews this semester.

After answering questions and concerns, Jones quickly wrapped up speaking by finishing with discussing other initiatives. The university is looking into a more advanced alternative to SafeAssign, an anti-plagiarism program that filters through its database of work to ensure original ideas. A required gen-ed class may also be instituted next school year which focuses on ethics along with an honor code put in place for all students on a similar time frame.

After Jones was finished speaking, a noticeable amount of various students left the meeting.

Afterwards Dylan Morpurgo, TSG director of government affairs, urged students to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5 in the general election.

Tom Montalbano, TSG co-chairman of allocations, announced that there are $76,000 left in allocations for student clubs.

The next TSG meeting will be held Nov. 11 in room 200c of the student center at 4 p.m.

Marcus McCarthy is the TSG beat writer for The Temple News. He can be reached at marcus.mccarthy@temple.edu or follow on Twitter @Marcus.McCarthy6