Senators debate legislation limiting minority party power
By LAUREN BAKER | Nov. 18, 2008Student Senate ended without voting on legislation that would limit the power of the minority party early Wednesday morning after a five-hour meeting.
Student Senate ended without voting on legislation that would limit the power of the minority party early Wednesday morning after a five-hour meeting.
In our freshman days, when Maui Teriyaki wasn't 20 minutes away from campus, Sloppy Gator was still alive and the football team battled for a chance at the Outback Bowl (ha!), there was nothing we hated more about dorm life than doing laundry.
Wes Hunt's column, "Bible archaic, full of contradictions," is ludicrous. Every contradiction he quoted was either taken out of context or completely ignorant.
The Southeastern Conference championship game ticketing system is the best system the University Athletic Association has had yet.
Right now, the economy is the 10-year-old jerk who lived across the street that ruined every neighborhood game because of his bad attitude.
If Saturday's game against The Citadel is Tim Tebow's last time playing in The Swamp, he's not letting anybody know.
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At tonight's Student Senate meeting, members will vote on legislation that would limit the power of the minority party in addition to voting on a controversial nomination for Image chairman.
UF's President Bernie Machen remains Florida's highest paid public university president, but his national standing has slipped.
Kelly Addington can only recall bits and pieces of the Saturday night she was raped. It was 1998, and Addington was a senior in college.
After awarding its 27 electoral votes to the incompetent George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, Florida has finally shown signs of maturing. In 2008, our stubborn state budged, proving itself open-minded enough to support a progressive black man who is the antithesis of "W."
Theoretically, democracy involves compromise. Without it, democracy would shrivel under the weight of narrow-minded decisions cast by a single party super-majority.
With some gun owners concerned that gun laws will become stricter with Barack Obama in the White House, local gun stores may be profiting off the election results.
Beware of free smoothies and pitas.
County staff will have to deal with concerns about security, funding and maintenance before following through with plans for a bicycle trail that would connect UF with Haile Plantation.
Ticketmaster may very well be the worst misnomer this side of "Big Ten football." They've mastered nothing.
Before the smoke from the 2008 presidential election has even begun to clear, whispers about potential candidates in 2012 have already surfaced.
A student talking on a cell phone on the roof of Sisler Hall brought about a dozen University Police officers to the scene Monday afternoon in response to a possible suicide attempt.
Michael Uslan really likes comics - so much so that he based his career on the Caped Crusader.