Sports
Gators' BCS road map to Miami
Oct. 20, 2008If there's one thing the BCS has been resoundingly successful at, it's evoking emotion.
Opinion: Columns
Opinion
Ayers’ actions undeserving of defense
By Bryan Griffin | Oct. 20, 2008In a Monday Alligator article, four UF professors and associate professors were mentioned as signing a statement backing Bill Ayers and opposing his "demonization." These four members of UF faculty should be ashamed of themselves, as well as the rest of the people nationwide who signed this disgusting document.
Opinion
Issues of the Congo should mobilize students
By Carolyn Witte | Oct. 20, 2008College students pride themselves on being the most optimistic, innovative and take-action demographic in this country. Our generation in particular is said to be more committed to solving social injustices than any generation before us, but it seems as if college students have lost their giddy enthusiasm and unrelenting optimism.
Opinion
College degrees don’t mean anything
Oct. 20, 2008The college degree you're working so hard to get doesn't mean jack. Last week, I mentioned a professor at New Mexico University, Marcus Ross, a paleontologist who believes dinosaurs walked the earth more than 65 million years ago but is also a Young Earth creationist. Yeah, doctorates don't mean a damn thing anymore.
Opinion
Obama could escape Bradley Effect
Oct. 19, 2008On a November morning in 1982, California residents awoke to see a San Francisco Chronicle story about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Bradley with a headline boasting "Bradley Win Projected."
Opinion
Compromise shouldn’t breed hatred
By ANDREW WYNN | Oct. 16, 2008The 2008 presidential election is less than three weeks away, and Sen. Barack Obama is slightly ahead in most national polls.
Opinion
UF students’ concerns aren’t reflected in official decisions
By KEVIN HOMRICH–MICOCCI | Oct. 16, 2008It seems that the powers that be have lost their concern for the opinions of the UF student population. This year, we have been misrepresented and ignored by many of the different groups within our university.
Opinion
Novice players should not use acoustic guitars as wingmen
By Collin Binkley | Oct. 15, 2008There is a growing epidemic saturating college campuses nationwide: the hobby guitarist.
Sports
Offense finally showing up
Oct. 14, 2008If there's such a thing as being fashionably late in college football, UF's offense has that party strategy down pat.
Opinion
Republicans pulling out all stops to win
Oct. 13, 2008For those of you who haven't read it already, pick up a copy of George Orwell's "1984." It holds some remarkable insight into the workings of the mind of man when it comes to political and even religious allegiance. The two most important terms in there are "doublespeak" and "doublethink."
Sports
Gators give rest of the SEC something to think about
Oct. 12, 2008Kentucky has got to be scared out of its mind.
Opinion
Rays’ story transcends tough times
Oct. 9, 2008The sky is falling, and I really don't know where to turn.
Opinion
Everyone can learn something from SG
By DAVID WINCHESTER | Oct. 9, 2008Nearly 10 years ago, the Alligator printed a guest column of mine about Student Government teaching me all I needed to know in life. It was my attempt to author a scathing indictment of the corruption and shortsighted nepotism of SG back in my days at UF.
Opinion
Baby boomers the real ‘Me’ generation
Oct. 8, 2008It only took hours to work out the bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - a deal that increased the national debt by $5 trillion. You, me and our unborn children now owe the world's lenders our own little piece of a $14 trillion debt, give or take a couple hundred billion. Here is the kicker: We didn't borrow a dime.
