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Courtney Tkacs ran on 'keeping students first.' With a month left in her term, we checked the receipts — an impeachment crisis, a funding collapse, and a list of promises that mostly went nowhere.
USC's Student Government codes require senators to assess constituent needs 'in good faith.' There is no definition of what that means, no enforcement mechanism, and no consequence for ignoring it entirely. Most peer universities have the same problem. A few don't.
USC's Student Government finance codes grant student senators the power to suspend organizations, compel document production under threat of perjury, and distribute mandatory fees with almost no guardrails. Federal courts have spent decades telling public universities this is exactly how you get sued.