Voice Party Revival

In 2001, I was chairman of a Voice party in student government elections at the University of Florida. Our party lost the election, 39-1, against a Fusion Party that had merged itself with a bitter rival from the last campaign, SUN.

Now, three years later, history is very close to repeating itself. Currently, Access - which won despite not being backed by the larger and more powerful greek houses - is very close to merging with its bitter rival, Innovate. And a Voice party has been formed in an effort to retain Access's more independent legacy, although it has hopes that its running in the fall won't be necessary.

Moral of the story? As many years as go by, UF changes very little in the broad brushstrokes. It's only in the details that things seem to be that much different.