Student Government elections to take place Tuesday and Wednesday
By Hannah Winston | Feb. 21, 2011Tired of the Unite Party and Progress Party handing you fliers, following you between classes and trying to get you to wear a sticker?
Tired of the Unite Party and Progress Party handing you fliers, following you between classes and trying to get you to wear a sticker?
Our society has become increasingly future-minded and less focused on the present. As college students who are striving towards future accomplishments, it is sometimes difficult for us to stop and fully appreciate the present moment.
It’s time for some transparency. Let's move our attention from the rumors, so we can get on with redirecting the hype to the right places.
The sixth installment of our weekly video show brings you an in-depth look at the No. 1 Florida baseball team's opening-weekend sweep of South Florida. Beat writer Jesse Simonton takes a look at the Gators' staff of talented pitchers, including former first-round MLB Draft pick Karsten Whitson, and points to a few other breakout performances from the weekend. Stay tuned until the end of the show to check out some of our not-so-finer moments.
An air of the New York fashion scene swept through the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom on Friday night.
When Schneider faces the incumbent party in the polls he knows he can’t waiver in what he considers a good fight.
Many say when Meyers is president, he’ll be one of the best the university has seen.
Unite Party’s Ben Meyers and Progress Party’s Dave Schneider face off to be UF’s next Student Body president in the Student Government elections Tuesday and Wednesday.
UF administrators and Student Government leaders remain embroiled in a battle over the implementation of block tuition at UF.
Francis “Pat” Fitzpatrick has been kicked out of more than two dozen Gainesville City Commission meetings.
Late last August, while most college freshmen were acclimating themselves to dorms, bars and financial hardship, Karsten Whitson was turning down $2.1 million to play for the top-ranked Gators.
BATON ROUGE, La. — With a win over LSU on Sunday, Florida accomplished something it hadn’t since the 2006-07 season: 10 wins in the Southeastern Conference.
In the spring of 2009, the Progress Party was founded in an attempt to overthrow a political system composed of an entrenched group of overly entitled elites that rendered the UF Student Government completely inaccessible to the students it promised to represent. I had the honor to serve as the Progress Party’s presidential candidate with some of the most thoughtful and passionate students I met during my time at UF.
Diversity is a value that I hold high, and I hope it is shared by the Student Body at large. My three semesters of participation in the Korean Undergraduate Student Association, as well as being the founder and president of Students for Peace in Korea, should speak for itself.
Although he has released three albums and starred in his own “Comedy Central Presents” special, comedian Todd Barry admitted he was nervous about his performance in the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom.
In a biannual tradition, the Editorial Board called in candidates from both Unite and Progress parties Sunday night to discuss the Student Government elections. With the heat on, both figuratively and literally, in our sauna-like conference room, we came to a realization: Everyone’s good.
Choosing to “Unite” the Student Body was an easy decision for me.
February 21, 1977: The Gainesville City Commission approves building plans for a new sports coliseum on UF’s campus, now known as the O’Connell Center, despite residents’ fears that the building will lead to serious parking problems.
With Big Bird facing extinction, the federal government on the verge of a shutdown and protests rocking the Middle East as well as our own state capitols, a hallmark of our electoral system for the past quarter of a century was quietly slated for the death chamber.
About 300 hundred people celebrated Chinese culture Saturday night in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom.