A huge battle was won at Tuesday night's Senate meeting in the war of Student Government transparency. The Progress Party's leading example of having voting records made public was echoed by President Jordan Johnson and the Unite Party.
Voting records should be made public
Labor Day will officially kick off the American fantasy football season in 2009, and no matter where you are this weekend you will be within earshot of a conversation about somebody's fantasy draft.
The government is acting like back-to-school season will somehow resemble "28 Days Later."
I'd like to express my concern with some of the facts represented in yesterday's Alligator regarding recent happenings in Student Government.
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.
To the oblivious masses of pedestrians:
Motor vehicle fees are going up on Tuesday and many people feel it's inappropriate timing, given the current economic climate.
Like many students living in Gainesville, I love biking, especially mountain biking. Over the summer I went on a road trip across the country. I got to do some great mountain biking. My favorite location from the trip was a small town in Colorado called Durango. If you ever get a chance to go mountain biking there, you will get to go on some great trails. What you won't experience is a large homeless population living in tents on the bicycle trails.
I have a problem with the Bible. Specifically, I have a problem with a particular verse in the Bible. Even more specifically, a particular translation of a particular verse in the Bible.
I am writing to respond to Monday's column by Matthew Christ. I must be one of the crazies he railed about because I'm having trouble finding any merit or truth in what was written. Let me explain.
I would like to express my disappointment in the argument being put forth by Mr. Harringer in his letter in Monday's Alligator. It is unfortunate that it is not easier to find consensus in condemning the wearing of hateful religious messages in schools.
It was once said that "a basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency." I can proudly say that democracy must be alive and well, because I have had one of the most engaging dialogues with the student body in the past week than I have had in a long time.
Passing health care reform is the Democratic Party's ultimate panacea, but failing to do so, and failing publicly, would be President Obama's "waterloo," as Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., opined earlier this summer.
Bernie Machen can't make up his mind about drinking.
I'm tired of people being enraged at the few Christians who actually follow what the good book commands. In the same way evangelicals say, "Don't hate the sinner, hate the sin," I say, "Don't hate the Christian."
In Friday's edition of the Alligator, Student Body Treasurer Maryam Laguna wrote that after a temporary gap in delivery, The New York Times would be restored to newspaper boxes on campus starting Monday. However, what she neglected to mention is that despite the temporary return of the Times, the paper's readership program still has been cut from the next proposed Student Government budget.
If you're anything like us, fall is one big wake-up call (and if you're even more like us, you totally missed your 7 a.m. wake-up call on Monday).
After hearing many people voice their concerns over the possible funding decreases from our Collegiate Readership Program, I wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight on a few things and hopefully assuage some of your fears.
What incredible happy news I first thought from reading the Alligator headlines on Aug. 27: "Machen: No more cuts." On the Web site version, I found a less misleading headline for the story: "Machen predicts end to budget cuts." The "end" of budget cuts will happen after we have "more" budget cuts. I liked the positive quotes from Machen: "economy seems to be stabilized," "gonna be a positive year after a 'negative year.'" All preceded by he's "ready to predict there will be no more cuts to UF's budget next spring."
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