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Florida Alligator
Opinion

Online professionalism: fallacy or reasonable?

Since the social media boom of the 2000s, there has been a common refrain amongst parents, professors and anyone generally over the age of 35: Watch what you post on Facebook. As the distinction between our online personas and our physical activities becomes increasingly blurred, more scrutiny than ever has been placed upon an individual to keep their online profile proper, pristine and free of anything remotely vulgar or suggestive. Conventional wisdom holds that once college students enter the professional world, they’ll be surprised to learn how little that picture of them double fisting PBR tallboys will impress their potential employers.


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Darts and Laurels: MUUUUURICA Edition(Kinda)

Welcome back readers! We’re sure you’re settling back into the proper swing of things following our week off. In any event, it’s another week, another paper and another weekly dose of...


UF men's basketball coach Mike White speaks at his introductory press conference on May 11 in the Gator Room at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
News

Mike White, Florida excited to establish new identity

With the departure of former Florida coach Billy Donovan, who built the Gators into a perennial contender in not just the Southeastern Conference but the entire country, one would think incoming UF coach Mike White would attempt to emulate Donovan’s methods to be successful.


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Busy news week shows good, bad of United States

All right, we at the Independent Florida Alligator leave our posts for a week and the United States decides to up and blow its top with national news and national controversies bubbling over like some witch’s brew.



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