Senator for the Class of 2014 Ricky Rosen announced on Facebook that the Provisions on Demand Market will now permanently remain open until 2 a.m. on Sundays.

This decision by Aramark and the administration comes in the same week that Student Union President Herbie Rosen '12 announced in his State of the Union address last Thursday that more trials for a shuttle to the Riverside MBTA station will be conducted next semester.

In a Nov. 4 email to the student body, Herbie Rosen announced the trial extensions of hours at the P.O.D. Market, which previously closed at midnight.

According to Director of Dining Operations Matthew Thompson, there were 222 transactions between midnight and 2 a.m. on Nov. 6, 251 on Nov. 13 and 151 on Nov. 20. In the same article, Herbie Rosen said that 151 transactions appeared to be the most realistic number and that it was enough to advocate for a permanent extension of P.O.D. Market hours.

In an interview with the Justice, Herbie Rosen said that he was "really happy" about the success of the trials.

"The challenge is we have a certain amount of students here, and there is only so much use each dining facility can get," he said. "But I'm glad that we showed that the [P.O.D. Market] gets a lot of use during that time."

"Hopefully we continue that. ... I'm glad they listened to us," he added.

"I'm extremely excited," said Ricky Rosen in an interview with the Justice. "It represents the culmination of a long and hard semester of work from the Ad Hoc Dining Committee, from myself and from the Student Union on the whole. It's great to see that our initiative has paid off."

In his State of the Union Address, Herbie Rosen announced an initiative to look into opening Einstein Bros. Bagels earlier on Sundays.

In an interview with the Justice, he said that he has not yet formally approached Dining Services about this issue but that they are aware of his intentions to negotiate Einstein's hours.

Ricky Rosen said that while the ad hoc committee will continue to address dining issues at the P.O.D. Market, he and the other members will direct their attention to weekend hours at Einstein's, specifically that it opens late on Sundays.

"When you're making changes like these, you need a lot of student demand, you need a lot of reason for change," said Ricky Rosen about his outlook on the new initiative.

"But after accomplishing what we did at the [P.O.D. Market]," he continued, "it represents a foundation we can build off of."

In addition to dining issues, Herbie Rosen discussed efforts to continue an altered version of Riverside shuttle trials next semester. According to Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan, a total of 145 students used the shuttles during the trials, which is 12 percent of the buses' total capacity and not enough to justify a permanent installment of a shuttle to Riverside.

However, Herbie Rosen said that he would like to work with the Graduate Student Association to conduct more trials during the weekdays, and he has been speaking with the GSA and will continue to meet with them next semester.

"There will probably be one or two more trial runs, but the ultimate goal is to just get Riverside on the Waltham route," said Herbie Rosen in an interview with the Justice.