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When the UF administration signed a no-bid contract with Aramark last year, many students at UF were disconcerted with the lack of research into the options available for food services on campus.
Some student senators had a bone to pick with Aramark, UF's food provider, Tuesday night.
Even a dismal economy can't stop money from flowing into Student Government party campaigns.
If President Obama's speech did not manage to turn Republican members of Congress last night onto the idea of major health care reform, it will be a huge political failure and a huge disappointment.
Student Government's political parties wrapped up interviews to fill the 50 open Senate seats at the Reitz Union Tuesday.
Student Senate heated up Tuesday night as when senators passed a $14.4 million budget, which is comprised of Student Activity and Service fees.
Student Government's political parties continued their search for Senate candidates Friday in the Reitz Union.
Thursday marked the beginning of Student Government elections when students with intentions of joining a student political party stopped by the Reitz Union.
If you don't have a pair of headphones, I strongly suggest that this week or next you invest in a pair.
Student Government's political parties will interview potential Senate candidates at the Reitz Union today, Friday and Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A huge battle was won at Tuesday night's Senate meeting in the war of Student Government transparency. The Progress Party's leading example of having voting records made public was echoed by President Jordan Johnson and the Unite Party.
Tuesday's letters to the editor by Nina Martinez and Mark Jaskowski are both misleading and unjustly give credit to the Progress Party. It wasn't Progress that initiated discussions to save The New York Times on campus. Instead it was the Orange and Blue Party that repeatedly questioned the Budget Committee for the past month and brought the issue to the student body.
I'd like to express my concern with some of the facts represented in yesterday's Alligator regarding recent happenings in Student Government.
Voting records should be made public
It was once said that "a basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency." I can proudly say that democracy must be alive and well, because I have had one of the most engaging dialogues with the student body in the past week than I have had in a long time.
In Friday's edition of the Alligator, Student Body Treasurer Maryam Laguna wrote that after a temporary gap in delivery, The New York Times would be restored to newspaper boxes on campus starting Monday. However, what she neglected to mention is that despite the temporary return of the Times, the paper's readership program still has been cut from the next proposed Student Government budget.
From buying flowerpots made out of recycled records to making a little person out of wood and scrap metal, the Mamaw Menagerie arts festival had something to satisfy everyone's taste for the eclectic.
At Tuesday night's meeting of the Student Senate, the Unite Party passed a bill called the Executive Order Establishment Act, a bill that represents a serious threat to the democratic process within Student Government.
I was very disturbed to read in Wednesday's Alligator Progress Party Leader David Schneider's blatant intellectual dishonesty. To say that giving the Student Body president the unilateral ability "to create executive orders to create offices, departments and policies" would "discourage too much centralization of one power," as the article stated, is exactly the opposite of what is going to happen.
Tuesday was a sad day for democracy within UF Student Government. In that night's meeting, the Student Senate voted to keep giving top SG officials perks that are out of reach for ordinary students. They also illegally moved several powers of the Senate to the Unite-controlled executive branch, essentially creating the new office of Student Body Dictator.
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