Just behind the Quad, outside Dodson Auditorium, Student Government is planning the latest project on the University’s ever-changing campus. Trees and walkways are tentatively planned for where there are dumpsters and restrooms. And if things go right, the project should be completed before May 2009 graduation ceremonies.SG President Colorado Robertson unveiled the new project in a meeting with student organization leaders Thursday evening. The project was sold as the 2009 Class Gift Project, a campus beautification program which would extend beyond the designs for Dodson.The Dodson project will cost about $70,000 but also become a self-sustaining system to finance future projects around campus.”You have to look at the money not as funds for this project, but as funds to initiate a whole beautification program,” Robertson said.The initial funds for the Dodson project will come primarily from two sources — the SG surplus account and the SG initiatives account.About $33,666 will be withdrawn from the surplus, which has been growing for years, with the intention of being spent on new furniture in the Student Union. After finishing the Dodson garden project and buying new Union furniture, there would still be $15,000 in the account. The SG initiatives account grows by $1 per student every year and can only be used by SG on projects, which cost more than $5,000. SG set aside $34,581.78 from this account for the Dodson project.By paying for the Dodson project out of pocket, SG expects selling commemorative bricks to line the pathway around the garden will raise enough money to pay for the 2010 Class Gift Project. —-Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]