Writing on the Wall Project aims to tear down hate
By NICOLE LYNN GREINER | Jan. 19, 2010Bricks with statements including “You aren’t smart enough to do that” and “Homos are sinners” were stacked on the Reitz Union North Lawn Tuesday.
Bricks with statements including “You aren’t smart enough to do that” and “Homos are sinners” were stacked on the Reitz Union North Lawn Tuesday.
Joe Dellosa, thank you for writing your column, “Infidelity should not be normalized,” in Tuesday’s Alligator. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
It is perhaps no accident that the nuclear power industry chose a French word, “renaissance,” to promote its alleged comeback. Attached to this misapplied moniker are a series of fallacious suggestions that nuclear energy is “clean,” “safe” and even “renewable.” And, in keeping with its French flavor, a key argument in the industry’s propaganda arsenal is that the U.S. should follow the “successful” example of the French nuclear program.
In response to Paul Murty’s column: Thank you for your intelligent column on Friday about ignoring the Dove World Outreach Center members when they preach intolerantly on campus.
After my father lost his job in November 2008, my family’s health insurance coverage lapsed. Although he found work — and, consequently, coverage for himself — in April, the rest of the family can’t join until March 2010. So, for the only year my mother and I have ever been without insurance, we have tiptoed through our lives, avoiding what health risks we could.
It’s been one week since the earthquake hit Haiti, and people across the campus, country and world are joining together to provide relief for those affected.
With winter setting in and word of the FDA cracking down on barely visible tanning bed warnings, the Editorial Board is urging students to forgo sun-kissed bronze in favor of pasty white — or even Gators-themed fake orange.
In the aftershocks of last week’s earthquake in Haiti, UF students have rallied together to raise funds and supplies to send to the victims of the disaster.
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Former Florida cornerback Wondy Pierre-Louis turned himself in to Gainesville authorities early Tuesday morning and was arrested on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, unarmed burglary, battery, kidnapping and obstructing justice by tampering.
After a rocky start to the Southeastern Conference season, Florida finally got the win it needed.
Trumae Lucas came off a cold bench and provided the spark Florida needed in a 55-52 Southeastern Conference win on the road at Mississippi State on Sunday.
Can I get some drama, please?
There’s no place like home, and the Gators showed that Friday night in the O’Connell Center.
Because of the offseason layoff, a team’s opening meet of the indoor track and field season typically doesn’t foster record-setting performances. But UF shotputter Mariam Kevkhishvili is far from a typical athlete.
Antoine Benneteau and Alexandre Lacroix will enter the dual match season on a high note.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words boomed through the Bo Diddley Community Plaza in downtown Gainesville Monday afternoon as thousands of people gathered to remember the civil rights leader whose dream made history.
The event attracted between 3,000 and 4,000 people.
Michael Cook, a UF professor in the Rinker School of Building Construction, was taken to Shands at UF Saturday after he had a heart attack at the Southwest Recreation Center.
Wondy Pierre-Louis, former Gators cornerback, is expected to appear today in a Gainesville courtroom following a warrant issued for his arrest Sunday.