The four tickets vying for Undergraduate Student Government president and vice president debated Tuesday night at The Forum. 

The pairs vary in USG experience and in the scope of their goals, but they largely agreed on wanting to foster more transparency for the student population.

The four presidential and vice presidential candidates are Ava Schmidt and Preston Morley, Ben Huang and Wynn Hammond, Jad Kilani and Jeremiah Boisrond, and Syrabi Nur Rahman and Diane Kim. Two of the tickets include current members of USG, while the other two tickets consist of newcomers to the organization.

Boisrond and Kilani are both in their second terms on the senate, with Boisrond serving as speaker of the senate. In their platform, they stated they would bring fresh food vending machines to campus, which Boisrond has said he is working on in senate meetings. They also promised to bring free LinkedIn Premium to students campus-wide.

Rahman is USG’s parliamentary secretary and Kim is wellness committee chair. Rahman and Kim’s platform promises to partner with corporations such as GrubHub, ZipCar, LinkedIn and Too Good To-Go, as well as extending the University’s free Lyft hours, which were reduced last semester. 

Schmidt and Morley are both transfer students not currently serving in USG who attended the debate as write-in candidates. Their platform was not on USG’s website as of publication due to the pair joining the fray late. 

Huang and Hammond, leaders in their fraternities, said their platform centers on capability, access and results. The pair said they want to ensure that students have access to the resources that USC can provide.

The candidates distinguished themselves with different strategies to engage students. Huang and Hammond suggested simplifying the recognized student organizations application process to allow students to become more involved within the school community. USG is not directly responsible for the RSO recognition process, though it can advocate for reforms with Student Life and alter its own internal funding regulations for groups that haven’t been approved.

All eight largely agreed that USG should listen to students from different backgrounds, including international students and undocumented students, amid ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement action in the United States.

When the candidates were asked who they would vote for, excluding themselves, Kilani said they would have endorsed Rahman and Kim, but accused them of committing seven violations of the USG elections codes. One of the alleged violations was allowing a USG member to hold one of their campaign signs, which the pair admitted to later in the debate, saying they were unaware of the rule.

After the debate, the Daily Trojan asked Chief Justice Ryan Tung whether the judicial council had received and reviewed Boisrond’s complaints, but did not receive a response in time for publication.

Disclaimer: Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Corral was among the moderators on Tuesday. Corral was not involved in coverage of the debates.

Correction: A previous version of this article stated that Jeremiah Boisrond accused candidates of  election code violations during the debate. The article was updated Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m. to reflect that Jad Kilani was the one to make the accusations at the debate. The Daily Trojan regrets this error.