Opinion
Political gain halts health care reform
Oct. 18, 2009Future scholars will look back on the Great Healthcare Debate of 2009 and scratch their heads out of curiosity and confusion.
Opinion: Columns
Sports
Strained relationship with media limiting coverage of superstar linebacker
Oct. 15, 2009I really like Brandon Spikes.
Sports
Picks Column: Arkansas
Oct. 15, 2009This year we decided to invite UF beat writers from some of the major newspapers in Florida to increase the competition level of the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column.
Sports
Be sure to take a moment to soak in unique experiences
Oct. 15, 2009As reporters, we spend a lot of our time looking down.
Opinion
Giving peace prize for 'intentions' wrong
Oct. 15, 2009I'm going to go ahead and go on the record right now. I want everyone to know that I absolutely and wholly intend on permanently ridding the world of poverty, genocide, war and any other possible negative affliction.
Sports
Florida may be as dominant as '08
Oct. 15, 2009It's hard to look at Florida's dominant close to the 2008 season and say the Gators made any mistakes, but apparently they did.
Opinion
Right finds peace in war against Obama
Oct. 15, 2009Definitions of peace largely assume that it must revolve around an end to conflict or hostilities. The kind of peace the Nobel Prize Committee rewards has always stood out as a more organic whole than simply the humanitarian vibes that immediately follow human conflict--freakin' Ghandi never even won a Nobel Peace Prize despite five nominations.
Sports
Lack of passing game could bite UF later
Oct. 13, 2009The Florida football team is 5-0, ranked No. 1 in both polls, quarterbacked by one of the best college football players of all time, led by one of the best defenses in a long while and should coast into the Southeastern Conference Championship Game.
Opinion
Women should embrace feminism
Oct. 13, 2009It takes a TV show to make me appreciate being a woman in the 21st century.
Opinion
Protest challenged views of misinformed Guevara supporters
By JOHNATHAN LOTT | Oct. 13, 2009I have great reservation writing this response to Paul Murty's Tuesday column because I'm afraid it will give his ignorance an air of legitimacy. The letter was the most fallacious, logically incoherent and misleading piece the Alligator has published in months.
Sports
UF should embrace running identity
By CALLOVI< | Oct. 12, 2009The Gators haven't needed to throw the ball much to win this season, and they probably aren't going to anytime soon.
Opinion
Philly accusations false
By Kaitlyn Flynn | Oct. 12, 2009I am responding to Tommy Maple's column, "Philly no friend of man's best friend," in Thursday's Alligator. I am an out-of-state freshman from Philadelphia. Actually I am from South Philly, so although I should have "at least two emotional and psychological disabilities," I sincerely hope you take what I am about to say into consideration.
Opinion
Art project puts message before money
Oct. 12, 2009PostSecret, the popular community art project created by Frank Warren, is the opposite of advertising. And that's a damn good thing.
Opinion
Che is a hero, not a terrorist
By PAUL MURTY | Oct. 12, 2009As I walked through Turlington Plaza to drop off a midterm Friday afternoon, I noticed a few posters with Ernesto "Che" Guevara's infamous picture on them. Progressing through Turlington, I saw protesters holding signs condemning Che Guevara, calling him a terrorist instead of a hero.
Opinion
Obama should win Heisman for direction, determination
By Kyle Krutek | Oct. 11, 2009In the wake of President Barack Obama surprising the planet by winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, I would like to throw his name into the conversation for another prestigious award: the Heisman.
Opinion
Obama has chance to earn peace prize
Oct. 11, 2009Fred Armisen offered the most precise answer this Saturday as to why President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a surprise Oslo announcement on Friday: "Because I'm not George Bush."
Sports
Different trips to LSU yield same thought
Oct. 11, 2009BATON ROUGE, La. - For the second time in three years, I hopped in my Civic and made the eight-hour trip to Louisiana for the Florida-LSU game.
Sports
Who wants to be the one to tell Tebow he's not playing?
Oct. 8, 2009It's 15 minutes from kickoff, deep in the bowels of Tiger Stadium.
Opinion
Media obsessed with college athletes
Oct. 8, 2009As you read this, I am hard at work imbibing the contents of my giant, green Bubba Keg on a bus to Baton Rogue.
