President reflects on time in office
After a year focused on moving forward, Jordan Johnson looked back with pride on his term as Student Body president Monday afternoon.
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After a year focused on moving forward, Jordan Johnson looked back with pride on his term as Student Body president Monday afternoon.
The last Senate meeting of the spring semester was a little brighter than usual.
Gainesville is expecting guests this weekend, whether they are welcome or not.
Some students who walked onto Turlington Plaza on Tuesday walked out with a temporary tattoo.
Senators learned about the UF Counseling Center’s response to the March 2 shooting of Kofi Adu-Brempong when they gathered for Tuesday’s meeting.
Race relations in the United States are not perfect, nor will they ever be. Since the election of Barack Obama, the problems seem to be increasing.
University officials have decided not to punish members of the Unite Party implicated for hazing and voter coercion in a recording of a February campaign meeting.
Student Senators continued conversation about the Reitz Union repairs at Tuesday night’s Senate meeting.
If you could ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan anything you wanted, what would it be? Would it be about the value of your degree when you graduate?
Senators did not pass a resolution urging the creation of a Reitz Union Oversight Committee, which would work with the Reitz Union Board of Managers to determine necessary repairs to the building.
I want to publicly thank several student senators who reached across party lines Tuesday night to help pass the Student Alliance’s resolution calling for a grand jury investigation into the shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong. The Unite Party’s leadership repeatedly tried to make amendments to the bill that would have watered it down to the point of meaninglessness, even over objections from numerous members of the public who came out to support the resolution.
Although the student protest ended Tuesday afternoon, debate about the University Police shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong continued at Tuesday night’s Senate meeting.
On March 4, the Alligator Editorial Board commented on what they called the Unite Party’s “naughty audio.” However, the editorial and the administration’s silence on this issue reveal the true problem in Student Government: apathy.
The Unite Party claims to represent the wants and needs of the entire UF Student Body.
At Tuesday night's Senate meeting, Student Alliance party supporters played an audio recording of a Unite Party general meeting on the night of Feb. 23.
The Student Alliance party formed this semester, but it earned more Senate seats than any minority party participating in Student Government elections since spring 2002.
Editor's Note: This segment of an audio recording is allegedly from a Feb. 23 Unite Party general meeting. The recording was forwarded to the Alligator from Student Alliance party Sen. Jonathan Ossip, who received it in an e-mail from a fraternity house representative for the Unite Party. The house representative wished to remain anonymous.
If I were in Student Government, I’d shake my head this week wondering why the Reitz referendum didn’t pass. But it wasn’t clear who the referendum represented.
With most of the national political spotlight soaked up by a lurching, half-hearted détente concerning health care, Sen. John McCain sneaked a bill onto the Senate floor last month that could drastically reshape the entire supplement and vitamin industries. Washington insiders, speaking anonymously and way off the record, believe that this never would have happened if McCain were still alive.
Surprise!