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(02/22/10 10:14pm)
Recently, the Alligator published an endorsement of various executive candidates and certain referenda. However, the newspaper failed to mention the other group of students running for election. Forty-seven Senate seats are being contested during the spring election, and the Student Alliance party has a slate worth an endorsement from the Alligator. Amalgamating a diverse group of students, the Student Alliance Senate slate can be credited with many of the “70 Platform Points” of the Student Alliance. The Student Alliance slate, if given a chance at a Senate majority, will quickly act to annul more than $1 million in waste in Student Government. We will swiftly post our voting records online, mitigate the lack of transparency at the legislative level, pass legislation to encourage ethics at all levels of SG, expand free printing, promote sustainable practices and enact many other of the Student Alliance party’s published initiatives. The current Senate, thoroughly dominated by a Unite Party majority, has been relegated to a lackluster rubber stamp. Never contradicting the executive, the Senate has continually refused to invoke its powers of investiture and its right to check the other branches of SG. If elected to Senate, we will reinvigorate the legislative prerogatives lost to autocratic history. Fight for your rights as students and vote for the Student Alliance Tuesday and Wednesday.
(02/22/10 10:13pm)
As a Jew and as a decent human being, I was thoroughly offended by Frank Walch’s letter to the editor Monday that compared certain leaders of the Unite Party to Nazi leaders. Though Walch specified that he did not feel as though a Student Government politician could be described as being as evil as a Nazi figure (thankfully he was willing to grant that at the least), his letter is a blatant character-assassination attempt. Tell me, Mr. Walch, how on Earth one could possibly equate a few thousand dollars spent on alleged perks with a “fascist agenda”? How could you possibly insinuate that the hundreds of volunteers for Unite have been “coerced” into giving their time? How could you ignore the accomplishments made in the past year and instead credit the administration?
(02/22/10 10:12pm)
The Alligator forgot the most important choice voters face in its editorial: the Senate slate.
(02/22/10 10:09pm)
The Alligator’s endorsement of the Reitz Union referendum has me at the edge of my seat. I read the Alligator daily and recognize it as the primary and most knowledgeable source for everything going on on campus. For weeks, I have read about the proposed student fee to repair and renovate the Reitz Union. I heard the potential price but wasn’t aware of the potential results. The Alligator Editorial Board has pulled the rug out from under my feet and made me think twice about this issue.
(02/22/10 10:04pm)
Campaigning during this Student Government election season involved a blend of traditional approaches and new campaign tactics.
(02/22/10 1:13am)
Unite Party and Student Alliance party explain their platforms.
(02/21/10 11:57pm)
With Student Government elections on Tuesday and Wednesday, candidates are kicking up their campaigns early this week.
(02/21/10 11:24pm)
After a very, very long afternoon in a sauna — we mean office — of niceties from politicos in training and conversation after conversation about the Reitz Union’s renovation and expansion, we’d like to present you with our spring 2010 endorsement. Hold onto your hats, ladies and gentlemen, because this endorsement may surprise you.
(02/18/10 10:41pm)
With elections four days away, the Unite Party and the Student Alliance party are starting to wrap up their campaign spending.
(02/18/10 10:39pm)
In a final attempt to reach voters before election day, representatives from the Unite Party and the Student Alliance party met Thursday at the UF Hillel to debate about platforms.
(02/18/10 12:30am)
Fliers saying “Student Alliance party is the Nazi Party” were found on campus bulletin boards and apartment bus stops Wednesday morning.
(02/18/10 12:29am)
Students walked away with condoms, candy and concern for their health and safety after the Student Government Health and Safety Fair on the Reitz Union Colonnade Wednesday.
(02/17/10 11:01pm)
I was surprised by Wednesday’s letter about how the Unite Party is really the Gator Party, but perhaps it shouldn’t be.
(02/17/10 10:59pm)
When Hayley Plant decided to ambush Ben Cavataro in Wednesday’s issue of the Alligator and berate him for not knowing the election codes, she forgot to, y’know, read the election codes.
(02/17/10 10:58pm)
Earlier this afternoon I learned of the new lows campus politics can reach at our university. As you may know, our campus was polluted today with a hateful and bitter message.
(02/16/10 11:28pm)
During next week’s Student Government elections, students will have the opportunity to answer three referendum questions while they are at the polls.
(02/16/10 11:14pm)
Student Government senators are leaving nothing to the imagination.
(02/16/10 10:03pm)
“It’s time.” That simple phrase means more than just a great video produced by the Student Alliance party. It represents a fundamental change from politics as usual in Student Government. When 80 percent of students do not vote in SG elections, it’s not hard to wonder why they feel SG is out of touch at best and disingenuous at worst when it comes to hearing student voices.
(02/16/10 9:59pm)
Why does the Unite Party get so outraged whenever it is criticized?
(02/16/10 9:58pm)
Ryan Scott’s letter to the editor Tuesday stated that “as much as changing the name and logo of a party can be aesthetically pleasing, it doesn’t hide the fact that the party is Orange and Blue 2.0.”
