The Unite Party claims to represent the wants and needs of the entire UF Student Body.
What a joke.
The audio/transcript released at the Senate meeting March 2 undeniably proves otherwise. Out of about 50,000 students at this university, the Unite Party is only looking out for about 5,200 of them, and it “cannot let the Greek system down” because its “way of life” is at stake.
A woman in the Unite Party gave a speech detailing what she thinks the Student Alliance party wants to do in Senate: “...These kids are the kids that want to take down the Greek system. They don’t want Sorority Row buses. They don’t want Fraternity Row buses... They don’t want parking privileges that we have on Sorority Row where you get your house parking... They want everything gone for us. They don’t want us to live the life that we have.”
First of all, why is she whining about bus routes and parking spots? Last time I checked, the Student Alliance party’s platform listed issues that are infinitely more rational and meaningful than that.
Second, Unite Party members admitted in the recording that the only reason they want to be in Senate is to push the Greek agenda.
These empty issues might be of importance to the Unite Party, but I don’t think they are top priorities for the 90 percent of UF students who are not Greek.
That same Unite Party person also said that “how we run this campus is through passing bills and getting certain things pushed through, and we’re not going to be able to do that if half of their people are in there and half of us, ‘cause then we do have to have them have these bills passed that we don’t want that are going to hurt us.”
Poor grammar aside, I’m trying really hard to see what she could mean by that.
I’m not involved in Student Government, so I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure that anything SG could possibly do would not really have that big of an impact on the Greek community’s beloved way of life, so I fail to see how these delusional ramblings are based on facts.
It’s clear the Unite Party doesn’t represent my views or the views of the other tens of thousands of students here, and I’m tired of them trying to spend my money on dumb, frivolous ideas (i.e. $40,000 gym hand scanners) that are not bettering anyone’s experience at UF except for the members of the Unite Party.
They get to keep living the life they have. Whatever that means.
P.S.: I wonder what the Unite Party’s new name will be next semester after this latest scandal.
Aida Bibart is a UF student.
