Jay Bundy, founder and president of the Penn State chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), has announced he is running for president of the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA).

Bundy said in an interview last week that legalizing pot will not be a goal of his campaign.

"I'm focused on being the best student body president in history, ever, and that has nothing to do with NORML," he said. "I'm not the pothead president."

UPUA elections will be held Oct. 11. Applications for the election are due by 5 p.m. Sept. 27, the day when campaigning is officially allowed to begin, Sara Snyder, UPUA election publicity commissioner, said.

Bundy and his vice presidential candidate, Christopher Brink, said they plan to focus on improving mental health services, access to information and accountability.

The centerpiece of their campaign is what they call a "100 plan," which will define what they expect to accomplish within their first 100 days in office. If they fail, the student body can hold them accountable. Bundy said they have not released the full plan yet because they are still researching what the important issues are and what is possible.

Brink said they want to "compartmentalize" student government, with different committees specializing in different issues.

"Students leaders need to work smarter, not harder," he said. "Right now, they're not working at all."

He said he thinks the administration is unresponsive to student government.

"We have to establish UPUA as a serious organization that they have to take into consideration," he said.

Bundy said he wants to assign issues to the UPUA staff who have the "full-time mission" of ensuring a solution happens.

"You can't pass a resolution that says the university should do something and then just wait for the administration to do something about it," he said.

Bundy and Brink said they want to run as a group -- called "Team Bundy" -- with candidates for the UPUA representative positions.

Snyder said about 50 election applications have been handed out or downloaded from the Internet. She said a "wide range" of people have taken applications.

Ashley Hill, head elections commissioner, said since individual staff members had been collecting applications, she was not sure how many had been submitted.

Hill said eight to 10 people were assisting the three elections commissioners.

"Everything's going very smoothly," she said. "I'm anticipating a successful election."

Synder said elections staff will be handing out applications at a HUB-Robeson Center table until the Sept. 27 deadline. Applications are also available on the Internet at www.clubs.psu.edu/up/upua.