Student Government is spending the summer working on various initiatives to be implemented during the fall semester.”Summer is such a bad time because everything is in progress and nothing is concrete,” SG Vice President Martina Scheuermann said.One concrete initiative for the coming semester is the new night bus routes taking students to and from campus and local nightlife attractions.Although details have not been finalized, new nighttime routes will begin when Tiger Trails begins servicing campus on August 1, said Noah Miller, SG director of transportation.The new routes will take students from a bus stop near the University Recreational Center to local nightlife attractions with emphasis on the East Boyd and Tiger Land areas, said SG President Stuart Watkins.  Scheuermann said there will also be a route that will transport students from various parts of campus to the drop off point.Miller said there will be three routes running at night on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. One route will run late in the afternoon sometime around 5 p.m. through 8 p.m. The next route will run 8 p.m. through midnight and the last route will run until 3 a.m.Miller said the exact times and routes for the night buses have not been finalized and a representative with First Transit was unable to comment on the specific plans until receiving approval from Gary Graham, Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation director.”Other major universities in the Southeastern Conference have night routes that go to different bars and nightlife attractions,” Watkins said. “LSU needs the same type of system to offer to the student body for safe transportation.”Since the start of the year, University police department have recorded 28 DWIs on campus, said Maj. Helen Haire, LSU Police Department spokeswoman.”These new routes could obviously lower the number of DWI and traffic incidents on campus,” said Sgt. Blake Tabor, spokesperson for LSUPD. “But it’s also, as always, going to be up to students to be responsible and use the service for it to make a difference.””Another initiative we got a lot of student interest in was putting snack machines in Middleton Library,” Scheuermann said. “We have that finalized, and a snack machine will be put by the scantron machine on the first floor of Middleton in the next two weeks.”SG is also working on a memorial to honor students who have passed away while at the University.”When [Kiran Kumar Allam] and [Chandrasekhar Reddy] Komma passed away last year after the tragic murders on campus, there was a reaction from the international community, and they wanted to show some kind of memorial for the death of these students,” Scheuermann said.Scheuermann said the memorial is to be named after Alum and Kumar but will recognize in some way every student who has passed away while at the University.Watkins said plans for funding and location of the memorial have yet to be made.”[Effective initiatives] don’t have to be big programming or big collaborative efforts from many departments it can be small tangible things, like vending in Middleton, that people get the most out of,” Watkins said.—–Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]