First there was PUCC. Now there is HSF.

The Undergraduate Council has generated its second internal coalition, known as Harvard Students First (HSF).

The new organization was formed in reaction to PUCC, the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition, which HSF members say they believe has steered the council away from student-focused issues.

HSF fears that the council "is falling simply into a forum for the more activist students," according to member Catherine D. Rucker'99.

The group was the brainchild of council member Eric M. Nelson'99, who is a Crimson editor. The coalition held its first meeting this past Tuesday.

HSF members said they disapprove of factionalism within the council, but said they need to provide an alternative to PUCC.

"I'm completely against having a two-party council, but I'm even more against having a one-party council," said Justin E. Porter '99, an HSF member. "I definitely hope it will become no parties eventually."

Rucker said that PUCC has already split the council.

"We take offense to the fact that PUCC has its own mailing list and its own newsgroup," she said. "PUCC is the reason why the council is as divisive as it is."

HSF's existence is conditional and it will dissolve once PUCC does, Rucker said.

"We will disband when PUCC does, when the council stops being a two-party organization and works as one council," she said.

Marco B. Simons '97, a PUCC member, said the council is still relevant to students. It should not confine its focus to issues on campus, he said.

But Simons acknowledged that the focus of council legislation has changed this year, and that the issues they have been working on affect students more indirectly.

"To a certain extent, we have been concentrating on broad sweeping issues and we haven't been spending as much time on smaller issues, direct issues that are more easily attainable," said Simons, who chairs the council's Student Affairs Committee.

Simons also said he was not disturbed by the increased debate and competitiveness that the coalitions' presence on the council have brought.