Tuesday's letters to the editor by Nina Martinez and Mark Jaskowski are both misleading and unjustly give credit to the Progress Party. It wasn't Progress that initiated discussions to save The New York Times on campus. Instead it was the Orange and Blue Party that repeatedly questioned the Budget Committee for the past month and brought the issue to the student body.
If it wasn't for the Orange and Blue Party and Party Leader Sen. Jonathan Ossip, The New York Times would not have been saved. Sen. Ossip reached out to students in the Alligator and created the "Save The New York Times at UF" Facebook group, which now has about 2,000 members. He correctly identified how to cut waste from the budget in order to pay for the Times and planed a rally to let SG know what students think.
The continuous hard work and dedication shown by the Orange and Blue Party and Sen. Jonathan Ossip paid off by having The New York Times reinstated. Instead of giving credit where credit is due, the Progress Party tried to claim that it was they who fought for the Times when instead they remained silent within the Senate. This is just another example of the Progress Party attempting to deny what they have been ever since the spring election: a bunch of empty seats that side with the Unite party more than the students.
