Student Government President Colorado Robertson unveiled SG’s new transparency plan, Eye of the Tiger, at the SG Senate meeting Wednesday night. Every expenditure made by SG will be posted on the SG Web site, www.sg.lsu.edu, starting Sept. 4. “People brought up transparency during campaigning, and we made a commitment to it,” Robertson said. “Every expenditure we make can be looked at. I don’t expect everyone to agree with everything, but it’s available.”Robertson said the policy has already forced SG to better analyze its spending.”It’s helped us identify some cuts that need to be made,” Robertson said. This is the nation’s first transparency policy established by a university’s student government, Robertson said.”Our ultimate goal is to see the University progress toward transparency on how student fees are spent,” Robertson said. “We’re making a statement, and we hope they’ll follow.”Even though all University expenditures are public record, Robertson said he wants them posted online for “free access.”Ben Clark, SG speaker, submitted a bill to appropriate funds from the SG Newspaper Initiatives account to fund the Readership Program, which provides outside newspapers on campus. Members of the Summer Planning Committee decided earlier this year to reduce the amount of copies of USA Today, The New York Times and The Advocate in response to Robertson’s cut of supplemental funding to the program. SG senators voted unanimously to approve the committee’s recommended number of each paper available on campus. There will be 250 copies of The Advocate, 300 copies of The New York Times and 300 copies of USA Today available on weekdays.The program is funded by student fees and will cost $53,599.—–Contact Katie Kennedy at [email protected]