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The 91st Academy Awards will air Sunday Feb. 24 at 8 p.m.
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

An $148,000 gift bag is a sign of how we view celebrities

Feb. 24, 2019

What would you do if someone handed you about $150,000? You could buy yourself a house, maybe even a Tesla, and still have some money to spare. You could choose to pay off all of your student loans. These scenarios are things people spend decades saving money for, but at the Oscars, all 25 nominees for acting and directing will receive a gift “bag” valued at nearly that amount of money, around $148,000.

OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Listen up, freshmen. Here's Kyle’s declassified school survival guide.

Feb. 24, 2019

We’ve all been there. The good life is not so good, a math class for your major isn’t adding up or the Man’s Food class you’re taking to fill the biological sciences requirement is making you sick to your stomach. In the pursuit of an illustrious degree you’ll (hopefully) obtain after your undergraduate years, there will be many classes you’ll have to take that you’d just rather not. These classes can sometimes be essential, sometimes they’re more or less useless, but all of them are tedious because you don’t want to be there. The problem is common, yet solutions are not as easy to come by.

Nick Arena, a 19-year-old UF accounting freshman, reads a textbook at Library West on Monday afternoon.
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Make no mistake. Libraries are for reading.

Feb. 24, 2019

You can ask this question to any student and suddenly you get an idea of what kind of person he or she is. It’s an aspect of the campus culture that divides us all: What’s your study spot? Is it Library West, with its multiple floors of increasing silence and its proximity to Krishna lunch, is it Marston Science Library, with its open floor plans and cool technology such as virtual reality headsets, or is it Newell Hall with the cool eggshell chairs and whiteboard cubicles? Each one has pros and cons, but I feel these libraries are underutilized. Their vast book collections often go unread.

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