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In my hometown, we didn’t know any gay people. There was one openly gay student at my rural high school. The nickname students gave him was “Quinn the Queer,” and a lot of us think he transferred schools because of the teasing.
The Student Senate voted Thursday for Unite Party Sen. Logan Harrison to take over as Senate president.
I am as surprised as you are to see my byline in this paper again. Believe me.
Before you decide you want to be a student leader, or before you decide that you want nothing to do with Student Government, hear the facts.
With primary elections only a week away, early voting around Gainesville has begun for citizens seeking to cast an early ballot.
What do the Olympics, Ryan Seacrest, Michael Phelps, NBC, Chick-fil-A and UF’s Student Government have in common?
In my time in the UF Student Senate, many things have turned my stomach.
I’ve been a student senator since the last student government elections in spring, and one thing has been made abundantly clear in my short time in the Student Senate: the Unite Party doesn’t like being told that they’re wrong or that they’re corrupt and incompetent or even that you want to amend one of their bills to be grammatically correct.
It feels like the weeks are going by faster than the decline in Facebook’s stock price.
On May 20, 1865, U.S. General Edward M. McCook gave the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in the state of Florida. During the Civil War, more than 1,000 African-American Floridians joined nearly a quarter of a million African-Americans across the nation to serve in the Union Army and Navy. Many more worked as scouts, spies and laborers in a struggle to end the long nightmare of slavery. Henceforth, African-American Floridians observed May 20 as a sacred day of remembrance of the Peculiar Institution’s many victims, and in hope that the nation would nevermore place property rights above human rights.
How much is your Student Body president worth?
With classes coming to an end now, summertime is making its way back to our front doorsteps. From sunny days to rainy days, beach days to pool days and — best of all — festival days! These few months of fun and relaxation have primed themselves around one of the fastest growing trends in today’s youth culture.
Editor’s note: This story is the result of multiple interviews with sources in UF Student Government and Florida Blue Key, many of whom spoke to the Alligator on the condition of anonymity in order to preserve their positions in their respective organizations.
If you can recall, the first column I wrote for the Alligator was about being a freshman spring admit here at UF.
Politicians, especially those who have been in office for a while, often talk a lot about reforming the “system.”
Rick Santorum withdrew from the race for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday afternoon.
The Transparency in Executive Agencies Act was an uncontroversial piece of legislation that would have increased transparency in the Accent Speakers Bureau and Student Government Productions. Both of these agencies receive almost half a million dollars of student funding each year.
With the arrival of the first black president in the Oval Office in 2008, it seemed that the U.S. had made a giant leap in resolving race relations.
A clear agenda on foreign policy is something all our political parties lack. The Republican neoconservatives, from former President George W. Bush to Newt Gingrich, have seen their hawkish ambitions dwindle as the American people have grown weary of constant foreign intervention. Libertarians, such as Ron Paul, preach pseudo-isolation, yet in a climate where nuclear weapons are prevalent, such an approach appears dangerous and nearsighted. President Barack Obama and the remainder of the political left are walking a tightrope between these two extremes — aware of the dangers across the seam, yet unwilling to face them head-on.
This week marks the beginning of spring and all its pollen, allergies and random afternoon thunderstorms.
Solutions by The State News
