USG to develop ChatGPT student program
Applications for a recently vacated senate spot will be open until Aug. 31 at noon.
By ASIANA GUANG
The Undergraduate Student Government held its first senate meeting of the fall semester Tuesday night with presentations from president Mikaela Bautista and speaker of the senate Jeremiah Boisrond.
Bautista said she and vice president Emma Fallon will execute the platform they ran on during USG general elections in February that included an initiative to expand students’ access to ChatGPT Plus.
“[We] had a conversation with [interim President Beong-Soo Kim] about their mindset on [artificial intelligence] and how they will wish it to be implemented within USC,” Bautista said. “Some senators are working on the ChatGPT Plus initiative, so more to come on exactly how we seek to work with [administration] to ensure that AI is being integrated into our everyday life.”
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Bautista also talked about multiple projects that the legislative branch is working on this semester such as the annual Sex Week, extending Doheny Memorial Library’s hours and Alliance Richard Merkin Middle School field day.
USG will hold a special election for the vacant senator spot after Dakota Driemeyer resigned Aug. 18 to work on a political campaign in Illinois. Intent to run forms are due Sunday at noon.
Boisrond’s presentation summarized USG’s accomplishments over the summer, such as confirming the advocacy department, confirming a Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment co-executive director, passing the 2025-26 USG office policy manual, confirming the First Generation Student Assembly assistant executive director and passing more transparent funding guidelines.
Boisrond said each senator will have at least one project they will be working on this semester. For example, senator Karim Debian is working on expanding the hours for USC’s cultural centers and senator Kevin Hoang is working on streamlining Office of Student Accessibility Services accommodations and creating a financial aid liaison for better communication with USC’s financial department.
Boisrond said his goal as speaker of the senate is to bridge the gap between cabinet members and senate.
“Given the interesting view that I’ve seen from last year, I really noticed the gaps in how I could definitely do better from last year’s senate class,” Boisrond said. “A lot of my role is more so supporting each and every single senator and every member in cabinet.”
The senate also passed senate bill 145-04, a bill to approve the 2025-26 guidelines for the programming department, legislative branch, communications department and allocations committee.
SB 145-05, a bill to amend senate meeting rules, also passed Tuesday night. The bill addressed a grammatical error that did not implement a change from the previous senate which gave the chief diversity office the ability to accept any amendments to the Land & Labor Acknowledgement proposed by the Native American Student Assembly, Boisrond said.
Correction: A previous version of this article included multiple duplicate paragraphs. The article was updated Aug. 27 at 10:59 a.m. to remove the paragraphs. The Daily Trojan regrets this error.
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