Sports
Results from four UF players in NFL Combine
Feb. 23, 2009Seconds can mean the difference between millions of dollars.
Opinion: Columns
Opinion
Machen needs to switch focus
By BRANDON SACK | Feb. 23, 2009UF President Bernie Machen's recent statements concerning a desire to focus mostly on graduate education is troubling. In itself, setting a goal to become the best research university in the nation isn't a bad thing, but only focusing on the programs that attract the most grant money forecasts a dire picture of UF's future.
Opinion
Octomom draws similarities to stimulus
Feb. 23, 2009Last week a New York cartoonist sparked a national controversy by directly relating a rampaging, face-biting monkey to the stimulus package recently signed into law.
Opinion
Unite Party benefits from discriminatory power system
By Travis Hornsby | Feb. 23, 2009Even as a naïve freshman, I have already been exposed to far more Student Government politics than anyone would ever want to know. Ever since the "green means go" scandal in which several members of the Gator Party were implicated for fixing interviews so that only individuals with select organizational affiliations would be selected, I have been interested in discovering what really goes on in SG elections.
Opinion
Progress makes progress
By THOMAS REYNOLDS | Feb. 23, 2009I was dismayed to read the misrepresentation and misinformation in Kyle Robisch's Friday column. Representing the Fall 2007 Progress Party as pompous and not distinguishing it from the new Progress Party is intellectually dishonest. And certainly, Robisch must have noticed in the past year or so the partisan bickering between Orange & Blue and Gator, now Unite. The butting of heads was clearly displayed during Wednesday's presidential concluding remarks, Sunday's debate and many other times.
Opinion
Overheard cell phone conversations draw ire, boil blood
By ALLIE CONTI | Feb. 22, 2009What is it that's so frustrating about listening to only one side of a conversation?
Sports
Florida high school steroid testing shouldn't be casuality of economics
Feb. 22, 2009One of my favorite movie scenes is the Blues Brothers clip where Jake (John Belushi) begs to avoid the wrath of his former girlfriend.
Opinion
Put aside apathy, vote in SG elections
Feb. 22, 2009The final days of the pamphlet-pushing party loyalists haranguing me on Turlington Plaza to vote for their candidate in the impending Student Government election are upon us. They do a marvelous job, those pamphlet pushers, because once again I'm devoting another 500 words to their collective cause.
Opinion
Students should seek to repair a ‘fundamentally broken’ SG
Feb. 19, 2009Ah, the naiveté of being a UF freshman.
Sports
McArthur adds final chapter to his story with sixth year of eligibilty
Feb. 19, 2009Brandon McArthur's hair is longer now, long enough to hide the painful memories underneath.
Opinion
College means more than just diploma
By ADAM WYNN | Feb. 19, 2009I've come to terms with my post-graduation joblessness. I haven't raised a white flag. Hope is not lost. I just understand my career won't be awaiting me, flowers in hand.
Opinion
SG’s inefficiency mirrors Capitol Hill
By JONATHAN LOTT | Feb. 18, 2009Ah, Student Government election season.
Opinion
Personal vendettas reason enough to oppose candidates
By ERIK VOSS | Feb. 18, 2009It's funny how you're never really "done" with people in college.
Sports
Meyer should kick Johnson off football team
Feb. 17, 2009When Urban Meyer returns to the United States, he is not going to be happy.
Opinion
Venezuela’s Chavez blusters to top
By ERIC CHIANESE | Feb. 17, 2009On Sunday, the "iron man" of Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, won an electoral coup and passed a referendum removing term limits. He will now run the country until he is defeated in an election - which, if his thuggish manner is any indication, could be a very long time.
Sports
UF may not make Tournament despite soft SEC
Feb. 16, 2009Every year in football, some "awesome" Big Ten team cruises through the regular season, picks up tons of hype and lands in either the national title game or some other prestigious BCS contest.
Opinion
Obama needs to convert platform to policy
Feb. 16, 2009The first 100 days of a new presidency are supposedly a telling period, a unique window of time in which a president can enact big change. It's a completely arbitrary deadline, devoid of any real significance, but it has become conventional wisdom nonetheless. Why do we accept this absurd notion that only in the shell-shocked aftermath of an election can meaningful policy be shoved through our cantankerous political system?
Opinion
SG online voting has dirty little secret
Feb. 15, 2009In 2007, UF students Tommy Jardon and Sam Miorelli, both current leaders of the Orange and Blue Party, started to renew efforts to make online voting the norm for Student Government elections.
