After disbanding the commission created to look over judicial affairs last semester, Undergraduate Student Government is now working in conjunction with Faculty Senate to resurrect the issue.

"Right now, the major issue that we're dealing with is informing students of the code of conduct -- it is paramount," said Mike Fazio, USG Senate president.

Last semester's commission found, through most of its research, most students are happy with the code, Fazio said about the conduct document.

One problem that exists, however, is some students don't know about the code.

Fazio said USG was trying to find ways to help students become aware of the conduct agreement when they first come to Penn State.

"If you take that preventative step, at least they heard it early on and are aware of it for the rest of their time here," Fazio said.

Last year's commission, originally put together to help improve relations between students and judicial affairs, had problems from the start.

"The plan was to let USG senate get a report together, unfortunately, that didn't happen," Fazio said.

This semester, Faculty Senate will be doing the research for the report.

USG will join Faculty Senate in writing the document.

East Halls senator James Meashey, chair of last semester's now disbanded committee, said, "I think that the code of conduct is a lot of common sense, with the exception of a few things like throwing food in a commons cafeteria, it's all covered in common law."

One thing some students fail to realize is that if you break the law off campus, you will also pay for it on campus, Meashey said.

As far as the way the Office of Judicial Affairs is run, Meashey believes it is fine.

"To be perfectly honest, I don't think it (the committee) does need to go anywhere," Meashey said.

"I think that the big problem is that students break the rules and they get charged for that.

"Then they try to get out of it," Meashey added.

Martin Austermuhle, co-founder of Students for Accountability and Reform (STAR), said the group recently finished a report that highlighted different examples of cases of students that have had trouble with judicial affairs.

The report will be available online, tentatively mid-week, for any organization or student to approve and sign.

"Anybody who's willing to give an opinion will be able to," he added.

"That's how STAR works, that's how we're always going to work," Austermuhle added.

STAR wants to open the debate with administration and have them sit down with the group and talk about the issues some people have, Austermuhle said.

STAR will submit the report to USG, Faculty Senate and the Office of Judicial Affairs.

Whether or not the organizations accept it, he said, is up to them.