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Senate certifies election results, votes in new president and pro tempore

About a month after elections, UF Student Government Senate will finally get to work.

UF Students unable to access Uber Safe Rides with current promo codes

It’s been two years since UF Student Government began Uber Safe Rides, a service that hasn’t been working for students lately.

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Ben Lima, a 21-year-old political science senior and Inspire Party senator-elect for District D, speaks out against the use of student activities and service fees funds to host Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle as Accent speakers at a Student Government meeting Tuesday night. 

SG Senate in limbo while new senators wait for confirmation

Senators elected into UF Student Government two weeks ago still can’t start their new jobs.

#CHOMPTRUMP protest calls for SG resignations

Protest organizers want more than Donald Trump Jr.’s speech at UF to be canceled. 

Picks Column: Week 6

Another week of the college football season is in the books, and it still feels like we don’t know anything about any of these teams.

SG elections commission and Supreme Court affirm Inspire Party’s Senate seats

Inspire Party’s newly won Senate seats are safe.  

ACCENT Speakers Bureau’s Conservative Bias

Do you ever just want to waste $50,000, but don’t feel like dousing it in gasoline and setting it on fire? Don’t feel like funding emergency blue lights? Don’t feel like helping student organizations that are struggling with funding?

Four blue lights to be installed on Fraternity Drive

After weeks of student activism, there will be blue lights on Fraternity Drive.  

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Branden Pearson speaks in defense of Gator Party against allegations of campaign violations Thursday evening at a Student Government Elections Commission meeting at the Levin College of Law. The meeting followed a contentious Senate race between Gator Party and Inspire Party.

SG campaign violations discussed

Facing violations, Inspire Party clung to its newly won seats in UF Student Government Senate at the Elections Commission meeting Thursday evening, its future positions challenged.  

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Stephanie Siler, the SG Supervisor of Elections, announces the results of the Senate race Wednesday night to a room full of Gator and Inspire party members on the Reitz Union 1st floor. Siler said 9,907 students voted on Tuesday and Wednesday. Of the 50 open Senate seats, 26 went to Inspire Party and 24 went to Gator Party.

'Nights like this are just reminders of the fact that it’s possible': Inspire Party wins first majority victory in SG Elections

Hidden in a swarm of orange and blue T-shirts, Colin Solomon gripped onto his friends, sobbing tears of joy.

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Olivia Dunbar, a 20-year-old computer engineering junior at UF, votes Tuesday in the fall student government election at the Marston Library.

UF SG sees an increase in voter turnout on first day of elections

Mouses clicked. Stickers were given. Glazed eyes watched computer screens thanking them for voting in the UF Student Government elections. 

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The Alligator endorses the party with more transparency

Editor’s Note: The Alligator Editorial Board, which includes the editor-in-chief, managing editors and opinions editor, met with both parties and candidates running in the UF Student Government Fall Senate elections. 

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Inspire President Zachary Amrose (right) speaks at the debate Monday night. To his left sits Ashley Grabowski, former Inspire Senator and current Inspire Party campaign manager.

Gator Party sits out while Inspire and independent SG candidates debate

With a key party absent from the boxing ring, Inspire Party and independent UF Student Government candidates strapped on their gloves Monday night.