New senators welcomed to Senate chambers, get Student Government 101
By Colleen Wright | Oct. 15, 2013As the pomp from election season settled, new Student Senators eased into their new term by learning the Senate basics.
As the pomp from election season settled, new Student Senators eased into their new term by learning the Senate basics.
Tuesday night was split between familiar and fresh faces in a bittersweet double-header Student Senate meeting.
Four Student Government elections violation complaints filed this week were withdrawn Thursday.
The Reitz Union breezeway echoed with cheers as a sea of Swamp Party supporters celebrated the party’s near-sweep of Senate seats Wednesday night.
Students Party’s and Swamp Party’s most popular members don’t spend long afternoons handing out fliers and reciting platform points.
Tom Donilon, former national security adviser to President Barack Obama, spoke Thursday night at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
Anthony Lopez spends 14 hours a week playing “League of Legends.”
The last Student Senate meeting before Student Government Fall elections next week ended the current legislative session with a dull roar.
About half of the 2,000 free student memberships offered by the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art and funded by a Student Government grant have been grabbed.
With campaign season in full swing, political parties are back on campus with posters, flyers, pledge cards, buttons and T-shirts.
Student Government has found a way to make its multimillion dollar budget more digestible to students.
The BlueLight app for smartphones has come to UF.
Although the mood in the Chesterfield Smith Classroom in the Levin College of Law turned comical as Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting was briefly interrupted by a shirtless student playing the saxophone for a promo video for Gator Growl, rhetoric stiffened with discussion of party neutrality.
As UF Student Government political parties finished registering Friday, students interested in running as a candidate for the Fall 2013 elections can begin qualifying today.
In your time at UF, you’ll spend $2,082 on Student Government. Shouldn’t you have a say on how it’s spent?
One senator’s appointment at Tuesday night’s Student Senate meeting grew into a greater discussion about academic classification.
While UF students are gearing back up for school, the Student Senate is already prepared to take on the Fall 2013 Student Government elections.
Welcome to the Fall 2013 semester!
I was raised on the notion that with hard work, qualifications and passion, no job or goal is out of reach.
Forty-six out of the 50 Student Government executive committee nominations sailed through unanimous Student Senate approval Tuesday night.