Frustration and anger has been sparked among several members and former members of the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) by the five-member external constitutional review board's failure to make a final decision.

UPUA voted unanimously to accept a new constitution on April 16, but the board only passed one article of the constitution so far, allowing UPUA to hold elections in the spring.

George Khoury, a student member of the board, said he has only been to one meeting so far, which was held on April 24 and attended only by the other two student members of the board, Galen Foulke and Nicholas Tates. The two members not in attendance were Stan Latta, director of union and student activities and a faculty member who Khoury could not confirm. Latta and Foulke did not return phone calls by press time.

Ralph Crivello, who chaired UPUA's internal constitutional review committee and composed large portions of the constitution, said the board's failure to act "infuriates [him]."

"It shows their complete and utter contempt for students," he said. "The members of that board should be deplored."

He added it "proves the administration controls UPUA," and said he will consider resigning from UPUA over the summer.

Jay Chamberlin, former UPUA president, said he spoke with the board about its rationale in delaying the decision. He said they simply needed more time to review it. Additionally, he said the board believed it would be rejected by the Center for Student Engagement (CSE) because several requirements were missing or paraphrased, instead of written in the required wording.

However, Crivello said all the requirements were present. He said he has written three constitutions for student groups in the past, and all were approved. He said he already had the constitution reviewed by "someone from CSE", to make sure it filled the requirements, and the CSE representative said it met them.

Since new UPUA members were confirmed earlier this week, any further amendments approved by the board will not take effect until the next time new UPUA representatives take office, due to a provision in the old constitution.

Ricardo Torres, former UPUA member, said the "entire process was mishandled."

"If the new assembly has any sense of self-respect, they will still operate under the new constitution regardless of what this committee says," he said, adding that the decision made him want to be even more involved with UPUA because it "need[s] people that actually know what is going on."

UPUA President Hillary Lewis said it was "disrespectful" of the board to not formally share its rationale, but added that it doesn't matter what constitution UPUA was under as long as they focused on accomplishing tangible goals for students.