According to Undergraduate Student Government President (USG) Galen Foulke, a group driven more by student advocacy must replace the current USG.

For the past two years, Foulke and Luke Adams, USG vice president, have tried to restructure USG. Last year, Foulke formed the Constitutional Review Commission, which finally proposed University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) last semester.

But time is running out for Foulke and Adams. They are nearing the end of their time as the executives of USG, and have resorted to a back-up plan: Turn to the Division of Student Affairs, obtain $3,000 in funding from Stan Latta, director of unions and student activities, to form the new advocacy group on the side and form Students for Real Advocacy to speed up the process of dissolving USG and implementing UPUA.

That is, after all, what the students really want: a group that represents the administration's interests more than the students.

Such overwhelming support from the university should make students wonder if UPUA will really advocate for students or become a puppet of the administration.

This is a hefty amount of cash, especially when the University Park Allocation Committee has depleted its funding and student groups such as No Refund Theatre are in need of cash to continue doing their mainstay.

There also seems to be no transparency whatsoever in the source of this funding. While USG does need financial support for referendum ballots and advertising, it should have had the foresight to secure these funds from non-administrative sources on its own long before now.

It seems as though the original plan to restructure the organization to benefit the students, not the administration, has been long forgotten.