Lately, the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) has been sounding like a rerun of the movie Office Space.

Don't be surprised if a dialogue like this occurred somewhere in the halls of the HUB-Robeson Center last week . . .

(Voice of Bill Lumbergh)

"Hey, President Spanier?

Yeahhhhhh, uh, this is UPUA. We were just kinda hoping you could give us some rights.

We've got this resolution here that says that an independent student government would be real nice.

We know it's missing the proper TPS report cover, but we were kinda sorta hoping you'd look at it anyway. If you feel like it.

See, we argued about this document for a really long time.

And we got kinda scared that you would stop talking to us and take away our nice office and move us to the basement (like Milton) if we actually demanded the right to amend our own constitution.

But it would still be nice of you if you gave us that right anyway, you know? When you have time.

There's that other group on campus, Safeguard Old State (SOS), that's meeting with the Vice President for Student Affairs and submitting a "roadmap for change."

But we don't like acting all "confrontational" like that.

Oh, and Dr. Triponey took our red stapler when she left, so if you could get that back, that'd be good to."
Look.

UPUA represents 40,000 students. Its members need to stop acting like Milton and start acting like Chuck Norris. They shouldn't be cowering under the reprimands of the not elected "board of five" that wouldn't approve the changes to the constitution.

In fact, any member of the administration that crosses UPUA should be having nightmares about getting the student government's next roundhouse kick to the face.

The power of UPUA lies with the people that make it up, not with the words in the constitution.
If they "violate" their constitution, it's not as if the administration is going to send in the Penn State student auxiliary officers to break up the meetings.

We've been saying this for awhile, but it's still true: Most students don't care what the UPUA constitution looks like. They don't care if the administration isn't happy with their TPS report covers.

They just want to see the issues they care about get addressed.

UPUA should stop worrying about administrators' opinions and constitutional technicalities and get to work.