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UF launches #GatorNationIsEverywhere Instagram campaign

The Gator Nation is chomping into Instagram feeds around the world.

Darts & Laurels 1/10/14

Predictably, this first week of classes was a blur of syllabi, underheated RTS buses and overpriced textbooks. But you made it!

Winter gardening

Paige Milch, a 22-year-old UF elementary education senior, removes tarps placed over plants to protect them from freezing temperatures overnight in the Grow Israel garden at UF Hillel.

Controversial Student Senate resolution pulled, printing resolution passed

The first Spring Student Senate meeting on Tuesday night kicked off the semester with an announcement that the resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement had been temporarily removed from the agenda, a unanimously passed bill and Senate plans for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Hamba kahle Madiba: Goodbye, Mandela

South Africa was to be my birthplace. Zambia, where I was eventually born, didn’t have the best maternity care in southern Africa in the early 1990s, and my parents were advised to move. Eventually, things worked out, and there was no need for my mom to go to Durban, South Africa.

At final meeting, Senate debates Palestinian-Israeli conflict

World politics were introduced to the chambers at the final Student Senate meeting of the semester.

Guest column: Proposed Student Senate bill is an attack on Palestinian students

Today, the Student Senate at UF will attempt to pass an anti-BDS bill titled “Resolution Condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement.”

Guest column: How Israel can better the world

On Tuesday I attended an event hosted by the Jewish National Fund titled Making the World a Better Place, which was supposed to highlight the positive impact Israel is supposedly making on the global community.

Guest column: I’m ready for a debate about Hillary Clinton, Democratic platform

In 2008, while I was in high school, I supported Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Without being able to recall the exact details, small differences over health care and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq led me to prefer Clinton over President Barack Obama.

Guest column: Inside the mind of a bomber

This column is a response to a guest column published in the Alligator: “Palestinians are people with a voice”

Guest column: Palestinians are people with a voice

This past Thursday, I attended an event hosted by CAMERA and UF Hillel titled “Less Hamas, More Hummus.”

Stop hating — America’s doing just fine

Haters will always hate. These days, bashing politicians and journalists has become en vogue. Critics forget that our representatives uphold the world’s greatest democracy by toiling night and day to represent a helpless minority: corporate executives. Having a media subservient to the powerful is also vital to our prosperity.

UF students to walk across Israel — without leaving Gainesville

UF Hillel is challenging students to walk the length of Israel.

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Making sense of Syria: A timeline of events

War; Bloodshed; Nuclear weapons; Bombs; Regime; Terrorist; Army, and death. With ongoing conflict in the Middle East, such words have become very familiar to the American people.

Pale Blue Dot in danger of extinction from countries with nothing to lose

Some years ago, a photograph of our planet was taken from a spacecraft hovering at the edge of the solar system. A faint, bluish speck, known as Earth, can be seen in the picture. Astronomer Carl Sagan commented on the “pale blue dot.”

Response to Richard Vieira’s Friday column

In response to Richard Vieira’s article on U.S. intervention, I wish to reiterate that self-determination for the Syrian people doesn’t equate to a regime change by the U.S. or any other foreign government.

America, keep your nose out of Syria's business and avoid another pre-emptive war

While everyone else was distracted by Miley doing the dirty at the VMAs, Syrian civilians suffered a totally different kind of dirty — chemical weapons.

Alumna collecting survivor stories for archive of India's independence from British rule

Guneeta Singh Bhalla is a physicist by day and a historian by night.

CNN's Sanjay Gupta reverses position on medical marijuana, now endorsing legalization

The debate over the legalization of marijuana may have just received an unexpected boost from a prominent news organization’s medical correspondent.