More information surfaced at last night's Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senate meeting about disputes over multiple versions of the USG Constitution.

Academic Assembly President Mark Levin told the Senate that a constitutional amendment passed in 1998 grants the assembly the right to issue executive orders for USG President Galen Foulke.

The question was first raised at Monday night's assembly meeting, when Foulke referred to a copy of the constitution amended in 2001. That copy included no clause granting the assembly the right to issue executive orders.

"Somehow that clause got dropped when the constitution was retyped," Levin said.

The version of the constitution Levin cited grants the assembly the right to "pass an executive order instructing the USG President to act in such a manner as determined by the Academic Assembly as related to academic issues."

Senate Internal Affairs (IA) chair Matt Ritsko said he had fixed the discrepancy earlier and included the corrected version in his IA binder, which he said represented the official version of the constitution.

Foulke, however, said the matter is not settled in his mind and that he will begin looking further into it today.

"Not that I don't trust anyone, I'm just going to look into it and make sure that's the case," he said. "We need to know this officially."

The version of the constitution on file at the Office of Student Activities does not grant the assembly power to issue executive orders.

Senate President Chris Owens introduced a resolution to create an ad hoc committee to investigate the issue, but the Senate rejected the resolution 6-8-1.

Despite the argument over the constitutionality of the orders from the assembly, Foulke told the Senate he was working on both of the concerns addressed in the orders.

The first order called on Foulke to hire a staff assistant. Foulke said he interviewed and offered a job to one applicant, but she later declined the position. He said he now has someone in line for the job and is waiting on paperwork.

The second order called on him to find a time for branch heads within USG to meet on a weekly basis.

"The main issue is that I would respect the thrust of that piece either way," Foulke said.

He said he has not been able to find a time that would accommodate the schedules of each branch head.

In the only other piece of legislation to come before the Senate last night, the body voted 17-0-1 to advocate for a change in the way certain information is updated on the university's online directory.

East Halls Sen. Kimberly Roth said it is currently unclear how students can change their permanent address and telephone number on the PH server, Penn State's directory for students, faculty and staff.

"If you go to work.psu.edu, you cannot change your address or phone number," she said.

Those changes, Roth said, must be completed on eLion, something she said was difficult to learn from the Web site.

The legislation calls for a "very noticeable link" to eLion from the work.psu.edu site.