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Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Viral Volunteer - Be careful who you talk to in El Paso

Someone in a Safeway recorded a video on her cellphone when she noticed something funny about a volunteer who was registering voters outside of the store. She saw that the volunteer had begun asking people which presidential candidate they would vote for before offering to register them to vote.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

A little common courtesy goes a long way

In the midst of the prejudice, discrimination and hate that seemed to rule the era, an act of kindness in regard to these students’ well-being catapulted numerous other significant events. Doing something unconventional, and at the time socially unacceptable, for the benefit of a few would eventually make all the difference in how this country treats people of all backgrounds.


Sport management sophomore Joe DaSilva, 19, helps Rolanda Charles, 18, get registered to vote on Monday afternoon.
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Mass voter registration event today

The Bob Graham Center for Public Service, with the help of other civic-minded students, is attempting to change that today, National Voter Registration Day. The center will host its Swing the State: Voter Registration Roundup event from noon to 5 p.m. at the Pugh Hall Ocora.


Florida Alligator
METRO

Gainesville residents leave all kinds of things on the bus

Chandlee, a 22-year-old mechanical engineering fifth-year, was coming home from 101 Cantina late one Friday night. Her friends got back on the bus and searched for the key, but they couldn’t find it. The night ended with a call to an emergency locksmith at 3 a.m. to open Chandlee’s apartment.


Florida Alligator
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Speakers debate drugs

The University Auditorium was filled with attendees for Accent Speakers’ Bureau “The Great Weed Debate: Heads vs. Feds” event. The debate featured veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent Bob Stutman and High Times editor Steve Hager.


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