Newly elected officers in the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) have been informally discussing means of revising UPUA's elections code and constitution in the future.

Though UPUA president Jay Chamberlin said the first order of business is to get UPUA on its feet, policy revisions have been discussed.

He said UPUA officers plan to meet soon with Galen Foulke and Andrew Reeve, the original drafters of the constitution, before making any permanent adjustments.

Chamberlin could not specify when the meeting would be held or if it would be open to the public.

"We want to understand their original intent before we start to revise," he said. "[Reeve] gave me notes on what things were changed within the constitution and the reasons why they were changed."

Chamberlin said moving the election to the spring instead of the fall is under consideration to accommodate Faculty Senate procedure -- so that academic unit representatives can participate in Faculty Senate.

Tom Shakely, UPUA off-campus representative, said he also thinks the election is a primary concern of many students.

"Obviously, I think the most glaring thing is a more procedural time frame," he said. "When you have elections in November, and you have a senior that is elected, you could show decapitated leadership for a few months in the summer."

Shakely also said UPUA might benefit from having the elections commission be an internal organization, such as the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Supreme Court, which handles USG elections matters.

"Something like that might be nice, because it is more internal," he said. "A lot of people had problems with the elections commission."

Max Pell, UPUA Eberly College of Science representative, said he wants to lower the minimum number of votes, which is currently 250, that an academic college member needs to be elected.

"It seems like it should be lower because only people from that college can vote," he said. "This affected me personally. My unofficial vote was 101, and the person running against me had approximately half of that."

Issues with the combined diversity and campus relations committee has also been a cause for concern, and Chamberlin said he thinks they should be separate.

"I think campus relations is more focused on our group's relationship with the university, and diversity is separate from those issues," Chamberlin said.

Chamberlin also said he would like to see the diversity subcommittees represent more specific groups.

"The committees leave out some other underrepresented groups like Asian Americans and various other minorities," he said.

The current constitution has representation for women, the Black Caucus and the Coalition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people and their allies.

Pell said along with more minority representation, he would like to see the Council for Commonwealth Student Governments (CCSG) have a voice.

"Even though this is University Park, we are talking to administrators so we should definitely hear the voices of other campuses," he said.

If revised, the new constitution could not be enforced until next year. The process of revision may be lengthy, possibly take more than a year, Shakely said.

"We haven't planned anything out," he said. "Just the review seems like it could take a while."

Reeve said he would assist in the review process.

"It's not my place to tell them what to do," he said. "I will help them if they act, but it's their job to decide what is right."