The Undergraduate Student Government senate heard presentations Tuesday night which included information about a new survey gauging student opinions on internal and external campus barriers as well as potential upgrades to menstrual products in campus bathrooms.

In his presentation, senator Jeremiah Boisrond said he is restructuring a November survey that showed 75% of 152 respondents did not want the barriers and checkpoints that were erected last summer to return in Spring 2025. Boisrond said USC security leaders were “very critical” of the original survey and told USG it was too broad.

Boisrond provided an example of the new survey during his presentation and said it will most likely include five questions and will hopefully be released by next Tuesday. This new survey focuses only on the internal barriers around Alumni Park and Bovard Auditorium. 

“My main goal with this survey is to go to administrators and say, ‘Hey, these are the lives of students,’” Boisrond said in an interview with the Daily Trojan after the meeting. “Students are dissatisfied with the internal barricades and we have statistical data to back that up. Can you reevaluate this and have it removed for the fall of 2025?”  

Boisrond also said USC Hospitality rejected an initiative to reverse the implementation of the Flex 120 meal plan, which will be the minimum required plan for sophomores, juniors and seniors living on campus in the 2025-26 academic year. 

Flex120 costs $1,975 per semester, while the apartment meal plan currently costs $835 in Spring 2025. The current apartment plan includes 40 swipes while the Flex120 provides 120 swipes. 

Boisrond said USC Hospitality created the new meal plan because it wanted to ensure students have food security when living on campus.

Senator Mikaela Bautista also presented her project to change the menstrual products that are currently available in the Tutor Campus Center bathrooms. 

“We believe that the quality of these [current] products aren’t suitable for menstruating students on campus,” Bautista said in an interview with the Daily Trojan after the meeting. “We’re hoping to upgrade these products by changing out either the brand or the plastic versus cardboard applicator, just to make sure that students are able to access the products that they want to use.”

Bautista said USG is currently talking to USC Facilities Planning and Management and the vendor for the products, Aramark, to figure out these changes.