Sports
Improving Gators deserve top-20 ranking
Jan. 28, 2008Billy Donovan has spent most of this season trying to convince us not to buy into any hype surrounding his team.
Opinion: Columns
Opinion
Little agreement with endorsements
By Leigh Shapiro | Jan. 28, 2008God bless the Alligator's Editorial Board.
Opinion
Last week's ridiculous 'news' makers may be new to you
By VINCENT MASSARO | Jan. 27, 2008Last week, the Alligator didn't publish on Monday, but I wrote a column anyway.
Opinion
Respect for all women still not reality
By CARLY HALLAM | Jan. 24, 2008I spent this past weekend in Las Vegas with my mom and a friend celebrating my 21st birthday. My social status as a young female has never proved so beneficial. I skipped hour-long lines, scooted my way into VIP areas and received free lap dances from Australian male strippers (no, seriously).
Sports
Werner takes on role of Gators' most hateable player
Jan. 24, 2008One of my very favorite comedians is the late Rodney Dangerfield, who always complained he never got any respect.
Opinion
Celebrity news culture clouds issues
Jan. 23, 2008I might vomit if I see another popup window advertising links to images of Britney Spears' crotch. Unless that thing is housing a population about to vote in a presidential primary, I don't think it is important.
Opinion
Think before voting on Amendment 1
Jan. 22, 2008"Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." That's what my macroeconomics professor would always say. As profound as it is obvious, this maxim relates a timeless, commonsense principle. But I must admit, it's a principle that I hadn't really thought about in great detail until hearing it in class.
Sports
Calathes becoming star player in 'Year of the Freshman'
Jan. 22, 2008Nick "Yes sir, no sir" Calathes has said all the right things since he arrived in Gainesville.
Opinion
Fertility science blurs idea of family
By GERALD LILES | Jan. 21, 2008Having a rough day? Well, look on the bright side: At least you didn't find out that your new wife or husband is your twin, thus making your romance about as incestuous as is incestuously possible. Say that three times fast. I know that's ridiculous, but it also happens to be horrifyingly based on fact.
Opinion
Coming of age brings new priorities
By CARLY HALLAM | Jan. 17, 2008Do you ever reach a point in life you when you just know things have changed? Like one day, all of a sudden, you realize you're an adult? It's not like you start misplacing your keys or using phrases like "cool beans." It's this creepy onset of maturity that just smacks you in the soul. Age has overcome me. But I should be ready by now. I've been given almost 21 years to prepare.
Sports
UF-Kentucky feud hardly worth mention
Jan. 17, 2008Don't be fooled by the ESPN broadcast or the long line of students camping out for good seats.
Opinion
DVDs should be shared in any format
Jan. 16, 2008Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
Sports
Lucas crucial to Gators' success this year, beyond
Jan. 16, 2008OXFORD, Miss - Just about the only thing Nick Calathes can't do on the hardwood is dunk.
Opinion
Bush and Iran: Déjà vu all over again
By JOSHUA FREDERICKSON | Jan. 15, 2008As we venture into 2008, the déjà vu is becoming a bit ridiculous. Or perhaps what is really ridiculous is the reality that many citizens seem blissfully oblivious or inexplicably unconcerned about how the events of recent memory have paralleled almost perfectly with some from the past.
Opinion
Hero or killer, Kevorkian visit brings up important issue
By BILL COLBY | Jan. 14, 2008On Monday morning, June 4, 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waited alone in his rusted Volkswagen van, parked at a remote campsite an hour outside Detroit. In the back, he'd rigged a makeshift bed next to a contraption that looked like a junior high shop project gone bad - three bottles dangling from hooks screwed into a piece of wood. Around 10 a.m., Kevorkian's two sisters arrived at the campsite with a 54-year-old woman from Portland, Ore., named Janet Adkins. Adkins, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, had flown to Detroit the day before for her "appointment."
Opinion
Harmless college fun will cost you later
By GERALD LILES | Jan. 14, 2008If you still have not received your copy of the latest issue of "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research" in the mail, allow me to give you an exciting sneak peek at what academics are doing to stem the advancing tide of beer in the United States. Get ready.
Opinion
Underage drinking not Gainesville's real alcohol problem
By KEVIN MICOCCI | Jan. 13, 2008You can always tell when a semester really kicks into gear. Yes, it's that time again - the biannual underage drinking crackdown.
Opinion
Drug companies offer funny ads, cash
By VINCENT MASSARO | Jan. 13, 2008A study from a Canadian university earlier this month estimated the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotions as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry's claim.
Sports
Win for Jaguars means more than just advancing in the playoffs
Jan. 10, 2008The big picture isn't always the big picture.
Opinion
Alligator welcomes budding journalists
Jan. 10, 2008So you've resigned yourself to this? Reporting? Really?
