While the University Park Undergraduate Association is officially up and running, its bank account isn't.

UPUA has no account with Associated Student Activities (ASA), the service by which recognized student organizations must do their banking.

The Undergraduate Student Government, which was replaced by UPUA as the official student government after a student referendum, has two ASA accounts containing a combined $12,000, Clare Peterson, USG treasurer, said.

Tom Shakely, UPUA off-campus representative, said UPUA has no money as far as he knows.

"We might be going to UPAC [University Park Allocations Committee]," Shakely said. "I don't even know if we have a treasurer yet."

While discussing the nomination for UPUA treasurer, Jay Chamberlin, UPUA president, said he wanted to "hold off [on] commenting" on the identity of his nomination until the person has been approved.

Shakely and Max Pell, Eberly College of Science representative, both said they had no knowledge of Chamberlin's prospective treasurer.

However, within weeks, UPUA may be acquiring $1,500 from Students for Real Advocacy (SRA), said Andrew Reeve, SRA president. Chamberlin wouldn't comment on this money.

"We will hold a vote, and if we deem appropriate, we will disband ourselves and donate all our money to UPUA," Reeve said.

SRA was started by Galen Foulke, former USG president and one of the original drafters of the UPUA constitution, in February to examine the effectiveness of student government and fund the UPUA election. SRA received an anonymous donation of $3,000 in February, and UPUA may receive the remaining $1,500 that was not spent, Reeve said. The donor's name remains undisclosed.

Chamberlin said he is finding ways to obtain student activity fee money like other student governments with the help of the organization's advisor, Felicia McGinty. Out of her office for the week, McGinty could not be reached for comment.

Chamberlin discussed soliciting the newly formed Fee Allocation Board (FAB) for a working budget.

He said it doesn't make him nervous that the former student government, USG, has been heavily promoting FAB to its members.

"I would assume they would treat it as any organization and keep any biases out of the picture," Chamberlin said.

Fundraising is a possibility, but not necessary, he said.

"I really just don't believe fundraising should be the business of this type of organization," Chamberlin said.

Chamberlin added that he is working on opening an ASA account within the next couple of weeks.

Money was requested by Chamberlin to frost the windows in the organization's HUB-Robeson Center office.

"Every other office is closed. It has a fishbowl effect. We would frost the windows to give them more privacy while meetings are going on in their office space," Stan Latta, director of Unions and Student Activities, said.

Latta said the cost of the project has not been decided, but the project would be paid for by the HUB operations budget, which is money earned through renting office space and university funding.