AUSTIN, Texas - The student organization Austin Students for a Democratic Society put together a rally on campus Monday afternoon.

UT Austin student rally

What they're saying:

"We're protesting against the compact Trump proposed to UT and eight other schools," said Alfredo Campos, a first-year student and a member of SDS. "The compact is a 10-point document where Trump lays out a list of demands that he wants us to fulfill."

The University of Texas is one of nine higher education institutions that President Donald Trump asked to join a compact.

The nine-page document is titled Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. It lists a set of operating principles that the schools must abide by or risk losing their preferred access to federal funding.

"One of the points of the c

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