The fate of the controversial class gift fee is still uncertain.Chancellor Michael Martin chose to neither approve nor disapprove the fee and sent it back to students to resolve.The Student Government Senate endorsed a mandatory $30 fee for graduating seniors to fund a walkway of engraved bricks surrounding the Parade Ground.”I know that there are many people who have wanted me to intervene on one side or the other,” Martin said. “But this is one of those cases where I think good student governance should be handled by good students.”SG Class Gift Committee Chairperson Tiffany Compagno said she didn’t want to speculate on the future of the project until she meets with Martin.”He doesn’t want it to be his decision,” Compagno said. “I don’t see this coming to fruition for the [May] graduates.”The graduate walk started its long and winding road as legislation was drafted to get the fee on the ballot for the fall elections last semester, SG Senate Speaker Tyler Martin said.The fee was set to be voted on by students during that election before a misunderstanding of University rules caused SG to pull it. SG was incorrectly told a memo had to be sent to System President John Lombardi describing the fee going to a student vote, and the fee was pulled from the ballot and brought back up this semester, Tyler Martin said.The mandatory fee was then endorsed by the SG Senate two times and didn’t go to student vote before being sent to the chancellor for approval.Tyler Martin said the SG Senate chose not to send it to a student vote in the spring election because extra funds from past class gifts weren’t allowed to be used to promote the new fee and therefore would be funds to campaign for passage. He also reasoned 40 percent of students never graduate, so many students would be voting on something that had no effect on them.There is still time for a special election on the fee, but SG rules prohibit special elections just for fees, Tyler Martin said.–Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]