On the Issues: Progress Party platform
By Joey Flechas | Sep. 22, 2010Widespread student participation in Student Government is the major theme for the Progress Party’s platform this fall.
Widespread student participation in Student Government is the major theme for the Progress Party’s platform this fall.
Even though the 24 independent candidates in the upcoming Student Government election are running decentralized campaigns, they have still agreed to run on a common platform.
Providing grant funding for graduate students, placing more Redboxes across campus and adding a Regional Transit System Bus Tracking Center in the Reitz Union mark just some of the issues the Unite Party plans to tackle on their platform.
As I scanned the pages of The Alligator on Monday, I was stunned by what I read in the article regarding the independent candidates running in this semester’s election. Does the Student Alliance truly believe the students are so incredibly dumb?
The actions of Mr. Sautin and Mr. Gundavda are truly comical. Monday’s Alligator chose to speak of the 24 “independent” candidates running in the upcoming SG elections.
Two bill presentations were cut short and a total of four bills were struck down during the Student Senate meeting Tuesday night.
Due to a clerical mix up, the Student Alliance party will not be participating in the upcoming Student Government elections.
“I have never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. I have never obstructed justice … Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.’”
Americans owe more in student loans than credit card debt.
When Lauren Ault “started to see clouds,” along with the vomiting and daily migraines, her mom, Ellen, begged the eye doctor to take a look at her daughter.
The Center for European Studies at UF is now offering European cooking classes at Take Away Gourmet.
Students looking to prevent the flu this season can now receive free flu vaccines available on campus.
I am sad to report that on-campus residents have been dealt a great injustice by their voice within the residence halls, the Inter-Residence Hall Association.
At least once during your educational career at UF, you’ve had one or will have one of those dreaded three-hour classes. Being trapped in those walls for longer than 50 minutes can put the mind into a zoned-out coma.
The Student Senate passed a resolution during Tuesday night’s meeting condemning the Dove World Outreach Center’s planned Quran burning on Sept. 11.
As a professional engineer and prospective graduate student on the University of Florida campus for a single day, Aug. 30, I flipped through the Independent Florida Alligator and was shocked to read a campus poll result indicating 74 percent of the students regret women were given the vote.
Traditional and contemporary culture blended seamlessly at UF during the Asian American Student Union's "Rolling Out the Red Carpet" assembly Friday night.
The Progress Party has returned.
The UF College Democrats hosted the March to recreate the 1913 women's rights march on Washington, D.C.