Opinion
Suicides should inspire compassion
Mar. 29, 2010Six Cornell University students have committed suicide since the start of the school year. Two of the six took their lives earlier this month.
Opinion: Columns
Sports
Brantley’s health crucial for UF
Mar. 28, 2010Spring practice is a minefield of useless information.
Opinion
Student Government president blows golden political moment
Mar. 28, 2010In the game of politics, Double J just rolled a double zero.
Opinion
Current events bring sense of deja vu
By Ryan Spencer | Mar. 28, 2010Rarely is this question posed: Have I unknowingly been in the hot tub time machine or has the past week or so been a really wicked case of déjà vu? I have recently been asking myself this as a series of seemingly long-exhausted events came to an incredibly startling — OK, slightly entertaining — temporal intersection.
Opinion
Band’s evolution reflects columnist’s
By PAUL MURTY | Mar. 25, 2010Music is a very important tool to measure what kind of mood you are in over an extended period of time. It can be difficult when your favorite band seems to betray all of its previous values in pursuit of a more mainstream sound, making it more aesthetically pleasing to the masses.
Sports
Meyer gives story new life
Mar. 24, 2010Deonte Thompson didn’t make a whole lot of headlines on the football field last season, but he’s certainly made his fair share — unintentional as they may be — during the first two weeks of spring practice.
Opinion
Health care bill targets tattoos with tax
Mar. 24, 2010One of the best parts of the latest fad in American federal legislating is how the actual content of our billion-dollar bills remain completely secret until after they are signed into law. It’s like a scratch-off lottery ticket, and who doesn’t love the excitement and anticipation of scratch-offs?
Opinion
Conservatives: Move On
By Will Penman | Mar. 23, 2010In response to the health care bill passing in the House of Representatives Sunday night, I noticed a friend’s Facebook status that was something like this: “Here comes the downfall of America.” I expanded the comments to join in on the sarcastic follow-ups. “The health care bill is going to kill us all!” was my best candidate for something to add. Then I saw that they were all serious. America really was doomed in their eyes. Welcome to the end of the world, I guess.
Sports
Doublespeak: Reading between the lines at Florida’s spring practice
Mar. 22, 2010It’s spring, which means the sun is shining, the birds are singing and love is in the air.
Opinion
We should appreciate ephemerality
Mar. 22, 2010I dug out my high school yearbook from senior year during the end of Spring Break. It was a combination of impending graduation wistfulness coupled with a “what’s past is prologue!”-induced search for anything that can assuage just how freaked out I am about that impending graduation. And then I discovered something: I was really, really terrible at predicting with whom I’d still be friends after high school.
Sports
Dunlap has more to prove
Mar. 21, 2010About an hour after showing NFL teams why they should covet him at UF’s Pro Scout Day last Wednesday, former Gators defensive end Carlos Dunlap flashed a glimpse of why they should hesitate to throw millions of dollars his way.
Opinion
Frat boys should wear longer shorts, less Guy Harvey
Mar. 21, 2010There are three things that — no matter how you spin it — are never good for your eyesight: Call of Duty marathon sessions, “2 girls 1 cup” and the springtime.
Opinion
Lawyers in 9/11 case embody America
By Ryan Spencer | Mar. 21, 2010The class-action lawsuit against the city of New York concerning the ground zero response and cleanup effort suffered another setback last week. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein handed down a decision stating the lawsuit’s roughly $600 million settlement, filed on behalf of about more than 10,000 ailing first responders and workers who searched for survivors and cleared the wreckage after the Sept. 11 attacks, would be inadequate. He went further to delineate the settlement’s convoluted compensation allotment system and grossly excessive attorney fees as reasons for his recommendation to restructure the settlement. Hellerstein maintained the compensation paled in comparison to the effort displayed, hazardous conditions endured and compensation truly deserved by the plaintiffs, whom he made a point to refer to as heroes.
Sports
Boynton deserves praise for effort
Mar. 18, 2010Florida was one of the last teams in the NCAA Tournament, and one of the first teams out of it Thursday.
Opinion
People’s voice must be heard on immigration crisis
By JAIME GONZALEZ | Mar. 18, 2010My parents are Americans. They are citizens of this great country, which they are proud to call home. They are also immigrants.
Sports
God given too much credit in sports
Mar. 18, 2010He’s all-knowing. He’s all-loving, and He’s all powerful.
Opinion
Columnist ties basketball to politics
Mar. 17, 2010Today roughly marks the one-year anniversary of the unquestioned pinnacle of Barack Obama’s presidency – the bracket he filled out for last year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Mired in the muck of a massively unsatisfying and restive term as the leader of the free world, President Obama now must re-calibrate his approach and perhaps use the basketball acumen of his inner circle to a decided political advantage.
Sports
Tucker immune to pressure
Mar. 16, 2010Everybody wants to be The Man. But not everybody can handle being The Man.
Opinion
Alligator weighs group’s demands
By Jared Misner | Mar. 16, 2010Following the controversial shooting of Ghanian graduate assistant Kofi Adu-Brempong by University Police, Students for a Democratic Society presented a list of demands to Vice President of Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin. Listed below are these demands followed by the Editorial Board’s recommendations.
