SG platform generation ends
By Katelyn Newberg | Sep. 15, 2016Cassidy Meyers grabbed a piece of red chalk to write “Lib West needs more plugs” on a chalkboard Thursday morning.
Cassidy Meyers grabbed a piece of red chalk to write “Lib West needs more plugs” on a chalkboard Thursday morning.
Without the rain holding them back, students wrote ideas to improve UF through Student Government on Wednesday.
Impact party begins collecting ideas for Fall platform and Senate debates SG committee decisions
The UF Student Government Judiciary Committee failed to allow a bill reforming how political parties spend money during elections to be heard by Student Senate.
UF’s Supreme Court failed three petitions Tuesday after students spent two hours defending them.
A bill asking to change Student Government election codes failed to reach the Student Senate floor Sunday afternoon.
The first day of party interviews for the Fall semester’s Student Government elections saw a lower turnout than last year.
The UF Supreme Court and Senate held meetings Tuesday. Read on for our reports on both.
Access Party will not be running for Fall Student Government elections.
The UF Supreme Court is holding a meeting Tuesday to set rules to hear petitions submitted by students.
Nine parties registered for UF Student Government’s Fall elections Thursday.
At the first Student Senate meeting of Fall, 23 students were approved as assistant supervisors of elections.
During Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting, the Student Senate unanimously approved nine bills that will put nine amendments to the constitution on the Spring 2017 ballot, including one for online voting.
Shortly after the UF executive branch announced a new Chick-fil-A expansion, a group of 11 UF graduate students sent an email to President Fuchs.
Sen. Macey Wilson (Fine Arts) and Sen. Max Stein (Graduate-01) objected to a bill about Student Government debates at Tuesday’s Senate meeting, causing the bill to come to a debate, then a vote.
During Tuesday’s Senate meeting, Budget and Appropriations Chairman Charlie Brown addressed the recent shootings of both black males and Dallas police officers.
At this past Tuesday’s UF Student Senate meeting, four out of five of the Student Senate allocations committee bills passed on the floor unanimously.
The UF Supreme Court released an opinion Thursday overturning four amendments to the UF Student Government Constitution that date back to 2008.
Tuesday night’s Student Senate meeting began with passionate speeches from Senators after the UF community woke up to a letter by Student Body President Susan Webster, published in the Alligator that morning.
UF Student Body officials have decided to overrule amendments made to the UF Constitution that would have allowed online voting, which were passed in Spring.