Once upon a Tuesday night that was oh-so dreary, the Undergraduate Student Government senators put on their finest costumes to hear bone-chilling presentations from USG’s vice president, chief financial officer, chief diversity officer and external affairs committee chair. 

Vice president Emma Fallon gave updates on a survey USG published Oct. 10. about President Donald Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

The White House sent the compact to universities Oct. 1 and asked schools to cap undergraduate international student enrollment, impose a five-year tuition freeze for American students and impose a strict definition of gender, among other requests, in exchange for preferential access to federal funding. 

Fallon said the compact response form gathered more than 300 responses from students in four days. A majority of respondents favored rejection

She said the feedback from the form was directly given to interim President Beong-Soo Kim on Oct. 14. On Oct. 16, USC rejected the compact.

Chief financial officer Avery Horton reported in her presentation that USG’s four funding boards had received 35 applications in October. Horton also said the deadline for recognized student organizations to apply for funding for events scheduled for the spring was extended by one week. The previous deadline was Nov. 12, with the new deadline being Nov. 19.

Chief diversity officer Yasmeen ElFarra, meanwhile, said her project to create a section in the Trojan Food Pantry dedicated to period products is expected to be set up by late November. She said legislative funding will be used for items such as pads, tampons, heating pads and other sanitary items.

In her presentation, she also provided an update on her diversity poll of officers within USG. She told the senate that she sent out the poll to 15 officers to review it. She said she plans on collecting the data by the end of November to make comparisons with results from previous surveys.

During the meeting, chair of the external affairs committee Chloe Juni said a project to create a high school mentorship program between First Generation Student Assembly members and prospective first-generation students in high school is currently underway. Juni said that USC administration is “very excited” to share the project with high school students.

She also said a collaborative field day event between USG and USC Athletics has been postponed and that she is working on a local business day, which will showcase diverse Los Angeles businesses on campus.

Later in the meeting, the senate approved bill 145-11 to change the logo for FGSA, a USG programming assembly focused on building community for students who are the first in their families to attend college.

FGSA co-executive director Andrea Salazar Lopez said the old logo, a hand pointing up with the number one on the finger, didn’t symbolize the organization appropriately. The new logo features a graduation cap with a tassel with the number one on it.

“The tassel [represents being] the first one to graduate,” Lopez said. “It really emphasizes that achievement.”