JUSTIN WOOTEN

Opinion

SG needs real reform

By JUSTIN WOOTEN | Feb. 4, 2010

If undergrads ever want to see a change in Student Government, it isn’t going to come through a self-defeating, lawsuit-happy “Indy” party that does nothing but whine in Senate chambers and does ridiculous stunts on election day. And it isn’t going to come from the party that acts as a mouthpiece for the administration. What needs to happen is real electoral reform. Students need to be represented and participate in the system — not decide between which party is worse, which is nearly impossible at this point.

Opinion

Senate should not vote on resolution

By JUSTIN WOOTEN | Nov. 2, 2009

The Resolution Affirming Support for the State of Israel that Senate will be voting on tonight is a travesty. Every word of it represents the extremist pro-Israel position, from the first Whereas clauses that subtly try to deny any right of Palestinians to the land and which gloss over the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that took place during the founding of Israel, to quotes from president Ahmadinejad of dubious authenticity and support for sanctions against Iran (not unlike the ones that killed 500,000 Iraqi children in the 1990s), to trying to cover up the slaughter of over 1,300 innocent civilians by Israel in Gaza this December and January.

Opinion

Transparency will boost participation

By JUSTIN WOOTEN | Sep. 28, 2009

I was extremely satisfied to read the Alligator's endorsement of the Progress Party Monday after all of their actions surrounding transparency. When I was on Turlington Plaza last Thursday, I got to see the Progress Party candidates sign a pledge to put their voting records online.

SG needs real reform

Senate should not vote on resolution

Transparency will boost participation

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