Looks like the Gator, err, Swamp Party - wait, which semester is it again?
Either way, the predominantly Greek Student Government party members have reclaimed one of the names that they have registered for the past six election cycles.
Naturally, they had to fight for it - sort of.
They were met with some protest that they triumphantly overcame once again.
In all seriousness, why was there a fight or a protest or even a question of the party's title? It's hard enough just to get students to vote in the elections.
Here's how we see it: Whether you're called the Swamp Party, the Unite Party, the Pants Party or the Swampy United Orange and Blue Gator Pants Party, you're still just going to jockey for a voter turnout that is dwarfed by UF's population.
The Editorial Board would prefer to see creativity over consistency in the party-naming. Maybe constant name changing would make it harder to identify the party you've always voted for, but isn't that what the Turlington river of party platform cards is for?
That's how we've always figured our votes out. Some wear orange, and some wear blue - but the ones who get our votes are the ones who don't try to cut us off on the way to our first-period editing block.
There's nothing that pisses us off more than having to take off our sunglasses and peel our earbuds out of their comfy aural nooks just to tell those flier monkeys to back off because we haven't showered or had our coffee yet.
We think the SG elections are important and deserve a higher rate of turnout, but a party's name is pretty inconsequential.
