Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
We inform. You decide.
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

COVID-19

Florida Alligator
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Horticulture chairman fights bad food science, Food Babe

UF’s Horticultural Sciences Department chairman holds a unique position in the Internet anti-GMO community. Kevin Folta is the leading discreditor of the spokesperson for the online movement, nutrition activist Vani Hari — better known as The Food Babe — who’s famous for her campaign against Subway to remove an ingredient in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. 


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Community college plan step in right direction

Good morning, Gators, and welcome back from what we hope was a good weekend. Between the first days of a new semester and the awful things that happened around the world this week, we all needed a break. Now that we’re all back in the groove, let’s start the new week with a controversial yet much less dismal piece of national news: President Barack Obama’s proposal regarding tuition in community colleges.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

NAACP bombing receives disappointing coverage

You know all about the bombing that occurred outside of the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP last Tuesday, right? No? Well, the FBI is investigating the act of potential domestic terrorism after a homemade pipe bomb exploded but failed to ignite a 5-gallon gas container to which it was rigged.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

US media has clear selection bias

As an avid consumer of news, I am noticing that the American media is not exactly as objective in their coverage as they should be. Actually, that is an understatement; The mainstream news media seems geared toward a viewpoint that engages in speculation rather than the day’s news.



Powered by SNworks Solutions by The State News
All Content © 2025 The Independent Florida Alligator and Campus Communications, Inc.