SG adds open container question to ballot
By Kelcee Griffis | Jan. 21, 2014Alcohol and sunscreen were topics of discussion at Student Senate on Tuesday night.
Alcohol and sunscreen were topics of discussion at Student Senate on Tuesday night.
Coffee? Check. Bagel? In hand. Morning newspaper? Get it on campus.
After passing a few resolutions that have been lingering on the agenda, senators brainstormed improvements for the school year at Tuesday night’s Student Senate meeting.
Here’s a story with a strange ending: There was once a student at UF who became involved with campus politics. As the liaison between the majority party and the fraternities, she sent an email ensuring the frat boys don’t forget to lend their support.
The Sedoctaves are getting by with a little help from their friends.
The Fall batch of senators broke the habit of approving recommendations and bills unanimously at Tuesday night’s Student Senate meeting.
As the pomp from election season settled, new Student Senators eased into their new term by learning the Senate basics.
Tuesday night was split between familiar and fresh faces in a bittersweet double-header Student Senate meeting.
Four Student Government elections violation complaints filed this week were withdrawn Thursday.
The Reitz Union breezeway echoed with cheers as a sea of Swamp Party supporters celebrated the party’s near-sweep of Senate seats Wednesday night.
Students Party’s and Swamp Party’s most popular members don’t spend long afternoons handing out fliers and reciting platform points.
Tom Donilon, former national security adviser to President Barack Obama, spoke Thursday night at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
Anthony Lopez spends 14 hours a week playing “League of Legends.”
The last Student Senate meeting before Student Government Fall elections next week ended the current legislative session with a dull roar.
About half of the 2,000 free student memberships offered by the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art and funded by a Student Government grant have been grabbed.
With campaign season in full swing, political parties are back on campus with posters, flyers, pledge cards, buttons and T-shirts.
Student Government has found a way to make its multimillion dollar budget more digestible to students.
The BlueLight app for smartphones has come to UF.
Although the mood in the Chesterfield Smith Classroom in the Levin College of Law turned comical as Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting was briefly interrupted by a shirtless student playing the saxophone for a promo video for Gator Growl, rhetoric stiffened with discussion of party neutrality.
As UF Student Government political parties finished registering Friday, students interested in running as a candidate for the Fall 2013 elections can begin qualifying today.