Local produce healthier for community ... and your wallet
By Amy Stuart | June 1, 2011Stefanie Hamblen was tired of walking into markets and watching customers pick up produce, look at it and put it back down; they didn't know what to do with it.
Stefanie Hamblen was tired of walking into markets and watching customers pick up produce, look at it and put it back down; they didn't know what to do with it.
There’s a new way for students to save money.
After reading the replies to Megan Bissell’s letter, published April 13, regarding Chick-fil-A’s support of anti-gay organizations, I must say that I too am an angry lesbian. The point both Andrew Robb and Ryan Galloway seemed to miss is that the university allows a corporation to profit off a Student Body that it oppresses. A business is entitled to its “moral” convictions just as much as anyone else. However, these ideals are not consistent with the inclusive and accepting values UF espouses. It is extremely unsettling to know that my school, which insists upon cultivating a diverse student culture, continues to involve itself with a corporation that blatantly perpetuates discrimination and hate against me. UF’s seemingly indifferent attitude in regard to this matter is just as good as its consent and agreement with Chick-fil-A’s actions. How can one feel safe and comfortable on a campus that funds political causes directly targeting its students?
The LGBT community doesn’t really care about tolerance. This couldn’t be any clearer after their reaction to Chick-fil-A.
Members of UF’s Greek community are proud to flash their letters — and not just the ones on their jerseys and badges.
I am an angry lesbian. UF would like to foster “a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere” for new and old students alike. As an institution, we take great pride in the numerous multicultural organizations on our campus as well as the diversity and uniqueness of individual students and faculty. We have programs such as Pride Organization and Friends to bring together gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders and allies on campus. I am pleased that UF conveys this accepting environment but am surprised by its inaction. For the past few months, one of our restaurants on campus has been embroiled in controversy over their statements and monetary donations to anti-gay organizations. Chick-fil-A used its charitable arm, The Winshape Foundation, to donate more than a million dollars to anti-gay political organizations.
The swing set 20-year-old Mercedes Farhat saw in 2008 while visiting her father’s family in Tripoli, Libya, was a metal skeleton.
We would like to express our condolences to the people of Japan.
At least Brett Wagner didn’t use the, “But I have lots of gay friends,” excuse in his attack on the LGBT community in Monday’s paper.
Once again, the Alligator has failed to understand its own shortcomings. Once again, the Alligator has openly flaunted its infatuation with Dave Schneider. Once again, the Alligator has neglected more important facts in order to reinforce the politics of SG that it so often sounds out against.
It would take a forum longer than a letter to the editor to correct the half-truths and mischaracterizations in Zack Smith’s editorial about teacher unions.
Regional Transit System is trying to make a bigger impact on the Gainesville community and will be extending its Employee Bus Pass Program to retired UF faculty and staff who live in the Gainesville area.
Ricky Carter, the incoming president of Pride Student Union at UF, classifies himself as a “gender-queer, gay, drag queen.”
Grinning widely, Ralph Lowenstein stood in front of colleagues, friends and loved ones, many of them smiling back, as he stood by the monument bearing his visage and his prophecy.
In Fine Arts C, Room 310, 240 photos are taken in 180 minutes.
The park service has said the animals needed to be removed because the park doesn’t have the money for fences to keep them from escaping. The park also wants to prevent inbreeding.
UF’s Hispanic students emphasized the need for organizational unity within their diverse community during an informal discussion at the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures Wednesday night.
When his parents asked about what they found on the family computer’s research history, Anthony Dretzka denied everything. When he was 14, Dretzka, now 20, was researching information about what it means to be gay to make sense of the feelings he was having; they were feelings nobody had ever taught him.
Although the Dove World Ourtreach Center Quran burning was canceled, members of the Gainesville community still came together to stand against intolerance Saturday.
The proposed Islamic community center known as Park 51 in New York City has drawn a lot of criticism that, quite frankly, makes Americans and the media look absolutely foolish.