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Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  DARTS LAURELS

Uber, pizza and Iran in this week's Darts & Laurels

With this week came April Fools’ Day and a long list of hoaxes — Nutella discontinuing, “The Walking Dead” being canceled, UF President Kent Fuchs and football coach Jim McElwain switching jobs. But some of the events of this week were unfortunately and painfully real, which brings us to this week’s edition of ...  


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Cutting higher education budget not the answer

Over the past decade, higher education has gone through what some might consider a period of austerity. As state revenues declined, public education budgets at every level were put on the chopping block. Public education consumes the most sizable portion of a state’s budget, so it’s not altogether surprising schools had to tighten their belts during the recession. With that in mind, it was flabbergasting to discover the Louisiana Legislature’s budget for next year might cut Louisiana State University’s budget by 82 percent.


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