Asian-American Student Union holds final Student Government debate
By MATT HARRINGER | Feb. 22, 2010In the last debate before the Student Government election, both parties agreed that UF’s Asian-American students deserve more attention.
In the last debate before the Student Government election, both parties agreed that UF’s Asian-American students deserve more attention.
Fliers saying “Student Alliance party is the Nazi Party” were found on campus bulletin boards and apartment bus stops Wednesday morning.
During next week’s Student Government elections, students will have the opportunity to answer three referendum questions while they are at the polls.
Student Government senators are leaving nothing to the imagination.
Ask the Student Alliance party why to vote for them, and they’ll give 70 reasons.
The Unite Party went back to the drawing board this election season.
Student Body President Jordan Johnson recommended Tuesday that graduate assistants should not have to pay a potential fee to help fund the expansion of the Reitz Union.
Student Government senators allocated more than $5,000 to UF organizations at their meeting Tuesday night.
The two parties had been discussing the merge for about two months, but the decision was finalized during the winter break.
Student Senators created some New Year’s resolutions of their own during Tuesday night’s Senate meeting.
SG and Inter-Residence Hall Association representatives will meet with Capt. Jeff Holcomb and officer Pablo De Jesus Jr. to address student concerns with the Student Nighttime Auxiliary Patrol, or SNAP, the free campus transportation service.
This week, Student Government is turning 100.
About 75 graduate students packed the Senate and protested the fee before the resolution passed.
Student Government celebrated its 100th birthday at the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom Tuesday night with cake, a live band and about 190 guests.
Renovations may cost $42.5 million.
Emily Hunt has killed two student senators and has her eyes set on another.
The Senate chambers were a bit more crowded than usual Tuesday night when about 30 students stuffed into rows and crowded the aisles to discuss an upcoming resolution regarding a report on last winter's Gaza conflict.
UF students walked away with more than just a win after Saturday's game. They also got a 10-foot oar carved from a 1,000-year-old cypress tree.
Student Body President Jordan Johnson said an anonymous donor presented him with a 10-foot-long oar to heat up the rivalry between UF and the University of Georgia.
A resolution supporting a one-cent pay increase for Immokalee workers passed 57-19 in the Student Senate on Wednesday. The workers pick tomatoes used by Aramark, UF's food provider.