Tania Nyman, a leader in the Save LSU campaign, spoke to Student Government Senate on Wednesday about the importance of the campaign.”This is not just about LSU — it’s about our state,” Nyman said. “That’s why I’ve been motivated to work very hard.”She said the most important thing students can do is get their friends and family to call Louisiana representatives to get legislative action to support higher education.”Fee hikes will not save the caliber of your degrees if we suffer these budget cuts again,” Nyman said.Tiffany Compagno, 2010 Class Gift Committee chair, said the $30 fee for engraved senior bricks around the Parade Ground will go to the Chancellor’s Office for approval and bypass a student vote.Compagno said she and SG Director of Campus Development Jordan Milazzo met with Eric Monday, interim vice chancellor of Student Life and Academic Services, to discuss developments on the 2010 Class Gift Project.Compagno said Monday he seemed confident Chancellor Michael Martin would pass the $30 fee and said the project will be minor, but will make a huge difference.The Senate debated financing 15 new bikes for the UREC Student Recreation Complex and sending four TigerTV staff members to a New York conference.The Senate passed legislation to allocate $5,000 for 15 additional bikes to the current UREC Student Recreation Complex’s bike fleet. “The reason I’m very passionate about it is because there’s been such high usage that the fleet has been dwindled down to three bikes,” said SG Vice President Martina Scheuermann. “The bikes they are trying to purchase are higher quality, so they don’t have to worry about them in the future.”The Senate passed $1,500 for TigerTV’s trip, rather than the requested $3,000.Drew Prestridge, College of Arts and Sciences senator, was strongly pushing for Senate to allocate the full $3,000, but he said he is glad they still received some.”I think TigerTV is a great service to this University, and I feel by them attending this conference they can truly improve quality of their station that serves the LSU-Baton Rouge community,” Prestridge said.SG President Stuart Watkins addressed the Senate about a meeting with other student government leaders from around the state.”It was very positive but at the same time very frustrating,” Watkins said. “The challenges we face are very different than the challenges community colleges face.”Watkins said all of the universities can advocate for constitutional reform, but LSU handles the budget cuts in different ways than community colleges.Brandon Briggs, SG assistant director of athletics, announced tickets for LSU’s first away game of the season will cost $30 instead of the normal $50 to $60.The game is the Chick-fil-A kickoff versus North Carolina which will be held Sept. 4 in the Georgia Dome. ESPN will air the game in prime time.Greg Upton, SG chief economic adviser, said he and six new SG economic advisers have been working diligently to come up with a tangible proposal about what the University is going to do about budget cuts.”I’ve met with everyone there is to talk to at this University,” Upton said. “It’s a really good thing we’re doing.”