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When life gives you lemons: How to overcome jealousy

As social media lovers, we’re able to follow celebrities and other glamorous people on networks like Twitter and Instagram. Slowly, we start to realize a lot of the people we follow are successful: investors, musicians, models, etc. We even follow well-known people at our school. But you can’t help but get a little jealous of their lives, right?


Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady talks to UF Law students about the decision making process in the courts. 
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Florida Supreme Court Justice Visits UF Law

Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady spoke at UF’s Levin Law school today to discuss “The Role of Precedent and Stare Decisis.” This lecture, open to all UF Law students, was the final piece of the Overton Lectures series in honor of the late Justice Ben Overton, a former professor at UF Law. “The Overton lectures provide students the opportunity to learn about specific areas of Florida Constitutional Law from Justices of the Florida Supreme Court,” says Karen Miller, curator and counselor at UF Law’s Center for Career Development.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Homelessness among children critical issue

One of the most shameful problems the U.S. confronts today is its massive — and growing — number of homeless people, particularly children. A report released Monday by the National Center on Family Homelessness puts the issue of homelessness in America in stark terms.


A police vehicle sits outside the Santa Fe Police Station on Monday, Nov. 18, 2014. 
NEWS  |  SFC

Santa Fe Senate President under fire

A confidential complaint about Santa Fe College’s Student Senate president spiraled into a series of threats and verbal altercations this month -- all of which came to a head last Wednesday when the college’s Senate made impeaching its president, Jeremy Pierce, possible.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter to the Editor: Food Chains

Thank you to the Alligator and to Tenley Ross for doing such a fine job on the story about Food Chains coming to the Hippodrome State Theatre today. I appreciate that Tenley interviewed so many people involved in producing and bringing this incredible documentary to Gainesville for its first ever showing.


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