Opinion
Approval ratings signal need for change
Feb. 12, 2008Another week, and another new low for President Bush.
Opinion: Columns
Opinion
Grammys reward self-destructive artist
By GERALD LILES | Feb. 11, 2008They're tryin' to make me go to rehab.
Opinion
Weekend in Boston offers life lessons
By VINCENT MASSARO | Feb. 10, 2008I don't know if I ever told you, but I went to Harvard. It's true.
Sports
Defense-heavy recruting class could see lots of playing time
Feb. 6, 2008It's time for the UF defense to get on the defensive.
Opinion
Menu labels would help to fight obesity
Feb. 6, 2008The saying goes, "you are what you eat." Well if that's the case, everyone should be having an identity crisis.
Opinion
Reject marriage amendment to stop paranoia
Feb. 5, 2008On Friday, Florida4Marriage.org submitted the last few thousand signatures required to get a proposed state amendment banning gay marriage on the November ballot.
Opinion
Torture overshadows War on Terror
Feb. 5, 2008U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey still isn't sure if the interrogation practice known as waterboarding - where an individual is strapped down with a rag placed over the nose and mouth while water is poured over the rag to simulate drowning - constitutes torture. That is, unless he were to be subjected to it.
Opinion
Vote to protect real marriages
By BENJAMIN BURWELL | Feb. 5, 2008Shakespeare once wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Truly it is the substance of the rose - not the name given - that makes it the beautiful flower it is. But what if we took the opposite approach? Would calling a dandelion a rose make it smell sweet? Of course not. There is much in a name.
Sports
Departing Texas Tech coach Knight contrasts sharply with Donovan
Feb. 5, 2008Bob Knight retiring has made me realize how grateful I am for UF coach Billy Donovan.
Opinion
Manners, etiquette must be reclaimed
By GERALD LILES | Feb. 4, 2008Imagine that one day you are strolling toward University Avenue, about to grab a bite to eat before your 1:55 class, when it hits you: that first paper is due in an hour.
Sports
In spite of bowl loss, UF gets another star-studded recruiting class
Feb. 4, 2008Few would have thought on New Year's night that January would have turned out like this.
Opinion
Wall project offers powerful meaning
By VINCENT MASSARO | Feb. 3, 2008Journalism isn't a real major. You're too quiet. I worry that you'll never get married. Women can't be engineers. Is that a weave you have on? Iron my shirt. Pot-smoking hippy. Fags have AIDS.
Opinion
Scholarship bill would waste talents
Jan. 30, 2008I grew up wandering around the neighborhood with a notebook and a pencil in my hand. You couldn't tell the color of my grandma's refrigerator without lifting up a copy of something I wrote. I was writing complete stories before I knew what a division sign looked like.
Sports
Speights' emergence crucial to team's success
Jan. 30, 2008Let's play a game of "I did not know that."
Sports
Looking back on the 2004 recruiting class
Jan. 29, 2008Another signing day is approaching, and it looks like UF will pull in a highly touted recruiting class yet again.
Opinion
Congress must fight for civil liberties
Jan. 29, 2008We are now almost a month into 2008, but I can't shake the feeling that we're stuck in 1984. Big Brother is watching us, listening to us and invading our personal privacy at an unprecedented and alarming rate-all in the name of national security.
Opinion
Fla. primary strategic for Republicans
By BENJAMIN GROVE | Jan. 29, 2008Tuesday's Republican primary captured Florida's importance in deciding the next U.S. president. The Republican candidates all offered different ideas to lead the party and the nation into the 21st century.
Opinion
Florida Democratic primaries still important
By Mark McShera | Jan. 29, 2008Since Florida won't receive any delegates at the National Democratic Convention in August, some people have tried to claim Tuesday's election won't matter.
