It’s close to nine months since Occupy Wall Street came onto the scene and caused a stir by peacefully sitting in Zuccotti Park. In this time, several different Occupy groups have sprung up around the nation.
It is of some concern that the pronoun “they” is constantly used to refer to the government. If the United States is a government of, by, and for the people, then shouldn’t the pronoun “we” be more appropriate?
This Memorial Day, perhaps more than most, I’m reminded of the contrasts between people and the things they choose to stand for in their lives. With all of the talk coming from the left about the imagined 1 percent versus the beleaguered 99 percent, it’s very easy to simply tune out these fabricated numbers and carry on.
It is no secret that in our gloomy economic times, one of the first sectors to get hit is education. Due to these budget cuts, many universities, including our own, have resorted to tuition hikes. These tuition hikes are part of the dwindling spiral that is our economy.
Did you know it is the year 2012?
Last week, my fellow columnist Michela Martinazzi wrote a piece denouncing the satirical film “The Dictator,” which purportedly mocks Middle Eastern despots, according to her, on the basis of racial stereotyping.
I’m not really liking the turn technology has taken lately.
New York City used to be the city of hopes and dreams. Today, we see a different narrative emerging.
On May 20, 1865, U.S. General Edward M. McCook gave the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in the state of Florida. During the Civil War, more than 1,000 African-American Floridians joined nearly a quarter of a million African-Americans across the nation to serve in the Union Army and Navy. Many more worked as scouts, spies and laborers in a struggle to end the long nightmare of slavery. Henceforth, African-American Floridians observed May 20 as a sacred day of remembrance of the Peculiar Institution’s many victims, and in hope that the nation would nevermore place property rights above human rights.
Last semester, the Alligator ran a comic strip that alluded to a scene from an Indiana Jones movie. In the comic, the character, Short Round, who is Asian, inquired about the keyboard clacking noises coming from the study-in led by the Computer and Information Science and Engineering students.
There are few things more telling about an administration than cabinet-level appointees. You can learn a lot about the inner workings and unadvertised positions of a presidency just by examining the kinds of people who surround the executive and their behavior.
Most of us have probably seen the trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, “The Dictator.”
To quote Seth Meyers, “President Obama was finally outed as a Democrat.”
What is family?
A conservative on a college campus can achieve a serene state of being that is pursued by many but accomplished by few: the status of a contrarian.
Since January, when it really hit me that this was my last semester, I have stewed over what I wanted to say with my final column for the Alligator. Without a doubt, it has been the hardest assignment in five years of college.
Florida appears to finally be back on the right track.
Something is still amiss with Karsten Whitson.
A few weeks ago, practically everyone in my major flipped out when the news story broke that employers were asking applicants for their Facebook login information.
President Obama is right to claim that the Republican Party has been “radical” and “extremist” in its approach to deficit reduction. I welcome his refreshingly blunt rhetoric.
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