Student Senate passes $14.4M budget
By CAROLYN TILLO | Sep. 8, 2009Student Senate heated up Tuesday night as when senators passed a $14.4 million budget, which is comprised of Student Activity and Service fees.
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 wrapped up interviews to fill the 50 open Senate seats at the Reitz Union Tuesday.
A St. Petersburg man was transported to Shands at UF after allegedly stealing a Department of Transportation pickup truck and crashing into seven vehicles on University Avenue Tuesday.
Narrated by Phil Kegler
For some, orange and blue has merely become a color combination sported on game days or school-funded events. Though the colors seem to consume Gainesville in an array of fashions during Saturday football games, two UF graduates choose to take their love for orange and blue to the next level.
Don't expect to get somewhere quickly on Main Street - at least not for another two years.
I agree with Zach Mayo's stance on the restaurant situation at UF. At a place where I pay to attend, you'd think my food would be somewhat subsidized. Instead, the opposite is true: At every eating establishment on campus, the price is hiked. In South Florida I can get an entire meal from Pollo Tropical for $3.50, here you may as well double it. I think it's wrong of UF to take advantage of its students by charging more simply because we have no other options on campus.
I noticed the article in Tuesday's issue stated that 51 people were ejected from the football game Saturday. I was one of the nine people ejected from the stadium for being in the wrong section.
This is the first time I've written to the Alligator in my four years at UF. I've thought about it many times, but Columnist Joe Dellosa's article about patience yesterday was the first time I actually felt inspired to. Though I haven't read any of David Foster Wallace's work, I think the message of the article was clear: We are a nation of impatient people. And the Internet isn't the only place where that is evident. We spend a week talking about pressing issues like health care and then forget about it all together when it becomes boring. We can't even listen to a full album of our favorite bands anymore because it takes too much of our precious time.
Monday's morning meeting agenda was a monstrous, 55-topic affair that was to compact budget, ordinance and other matters into three hours.
"Twilight" has made the world a worse place.
Schools should have shown President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday instead of succumbing to parents who wanted it boycotted.
As the Inter-Residence Hall Association found out this summer, Facebook pictures of an on-campus party with underage drinking can get you in trouble with UF.
ñFelicidades!, Levin College of Law.
Step aside, Salisbury steak - tofu may soon be king of the lunch line.
On Wednesday, Jewish young adults will be able to register online for a free peer-group trip to Israel this winter.
Magician Jason "Escape" Gardner won't be pulling bunnies out of his hat during his performance tonight at the Orange and Brew.
Student Government's political parties continued their search for Senate candidates Friday in the Reitz Union.
Florida took a page out the Oklahoma playbook and unveiled its new hurry-up offense in Saturday's 62-3 win over Charleston Southern.
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