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Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

How to fall off the face of the Earth and like it

I can recall my social media ‘firsts’ as easily as I could my major life events: first cryptically spelled Facebook status, first grotesquely filtered Instagram, first angsty song lyric quoted on Twitter. It becomes almost nostalgic, recalling a time when social media was new and each post brought me one step closer to perfecting my skillfully crafted online persona. Yet my most profound ‘first’ was when I gave it all up.


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METRO  |  POLITICS

Rush Week: A Problematic Distraction

The recent "controversy" over the recruitment video for the University of Alabama chapter of the Alpha Phi sorority was baffling. One critic, op-ed writer A.L. Bailey, rightfully derided the video as "so racially and aesthetically homogenous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so...unempowering." Snapchat provided live coverage of sorority rush week this past weekend, and anyone could readily observe that the problematic behavior criticized in the video is not only expected but is the norm.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Despite controversy, Bernie Sanders is the best candidate for racial justice

In recent weeks, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., relationship with black voters has been subject to tremendous scrutiny. Thus far, two of Sanders’ appearances on the campaign trail have been hijacked by activists who self-identify as part of Black Lives Matter, a movement dedicated to raising awareness and effecting substantial change to institutional racism and the subpar treatment of black citizens in the U.S.



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