As students, we should each take the opportunity to learn a lesson of acceptance and civility from the recent tragedy at Rutgers University.
This football season has been creating excellent opportunities to examine the role of women in male locker rooms, but the way the NFL backpedaled from a series of teachable moments is both superficial and predictable.
Well, there’s really no other way to put it.
Fans aren’t the only ones stuck in Florida’s glory days.
We heard the news of Ole Miss’ new mascot and we couldn’t pass this game up.
A unique schism has developed in the world of the post-modern relationship, a schism that has brought a veritable role reversal to the previously established and socially-accepted positions of the genders.
Have you ever woken up after a night of drinking with mysterious scratches everywhere? No? Yeah, me either….
Let’s have a big round of applause for mediocrity, UF’s new area of excellence. After watching Saturday’s game, I was struck with a dilemma: Where will I now derive my pride in my choice of higher learning?
“Life isn’t fair!” says the 15-year-old girl whose parents just told her she couldn’t go to a birthday party because of a bad grade. “Life isn’t fair!” says the college student who can’t go out with his friends because of a 10-page paper due the next day that he hasn’t started. “Life isn’t fair!” says the wife at home who has to take care of her two kids and work on a proposal for her job. Well I’ll tell you whose life isn’t fair: the life of an individual suffering from HIV/AIDS — especially one in a low-income state.
Last week, I mused on why Florida needs to get on the ball when it comes to decriminalizing marijuana, and I attended the Bob Dylan concert with thousands of other fans at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center. Some would like to use that anecdotal evidence to further their claims of me as a “stoner.”
Our society has been picking straws for years in the superhero department, forced to borrow champions of yore and update them to the modern era.
Despite what you might have been told, voting in midterm elections does matter.
So maybe it’s time to address the pink elephant in the column. I know readers have speculated, and, yes, my last name is Italian.
Editor's note on 10/8/10: This column has been taken down. The original column ran in Thursday's edition, but our readers pointed out a Reddit article with references too similar to Griffin's writing. We apologize for the inconvenience.
During the fall, I probably watch somewhere between 10-15 hours of college and professional football every weekend.
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