While last week’s Student Government elections had a high voter turnout with more than 10,000 students voting, not all voices were heard.
After a battle of chomps and cheers, Impact Party took the majority of seats up for grabs in the Student Government elections Wednesday night.
The first day of voting for the Fall Student Government elections saw 6,427 students voting.
What was meant to be an open dialogue for students to learn more about Student Government turned into a debate.
After two weeks of heavy campaigning from Access Party and Impact Party, the Fall 2015 Student Government elections start today.
Infinity Hall residents pleaded with UF Student Body President Joselin Padron-Rasines to veto a bill that would group them into District A instead of giving them their own senator.
The Access and Impact parties on Monday released their platforms ahead of next week's Fall 2015 Student Government elections.
UF Student Body President Joselin Padron-Rasines filed a petition with UF’s Supreme Court on Friday regarding the constitutionality of the current SG executive committee.
Gainesville Police filed charges against a current Fall Student Government candidate in 2013 for possession of a fake ID, but the candidate, Octavious Buiey, denies the charges ever existed.
UF student senators are divided on whether students living in Infinity Hall should have their own senator or be part of District A.
Alex Marques took a red piece of chalk and bent down to write "tabling registration easier" on a chalkboard to help generate ideas for the upcoming UF Student Government Fall Elections.
The decision to either give students living in Infinity Hall a UF student senator or group them in District A was a heated topic at Tuesday night’s UF Student Senate meeting.
Brace yourselves: Fall 2015 UF Student Government elections are here.
The final day of qualifying and slating, where students chose to run with a Student Government political party, had the highest turnout.
A debate was sparked when senators suggested changing the name of the Reitz Union North Lawn to “Global Garden” at Tuesday night’s UF Student Senate meeting.
The shortest day for students to choose which political party to run with turned out to have the largest number of candidates Friday.
The second day of slating and qualifying saw a slight increase of students running, or slating, with either Access Party or Impact Party.
While some students who walked into the Reitz Union knew which Student Government Party they were going to run, or slate, with in the Fall 2015 elections, Anneke Wenzel remained uncertain.
The Senate chambers were relaxed Tuesday night until a heated public debate regarding the recent formation of a new party was addressed.
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