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Emergency texts prompt many questions
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 16, 2007UF wants your digits.
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Donations for homeless are few and far between
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 15, 2007The donation meters set up to raise money for the Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry have failed.
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Problematic Protest
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 15, 2007You can't spell "disgusting" without SDS.
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The time is now for environmental action
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 14, 2007In case you didn't realize, climate change is a pretty big deal. So big a deal that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to raise awareness about global warming. He shares the prize with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Tuition increases won't make up for budget cuts
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 14, 2007Friday was a busy day for the Florida Legislature. But at least it threw UF a bone - a ,4.8 million bone. UF expected to see its budget cut by ,26.9 million, but the Legislature only cut ,22.1 million.
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Darts & Laurels
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 11, 2007Blah. That's how this week has been. We're all hitting that mid-semester slump. Midterms have turned us into hermits. Papers have us gnawing our pencils. Starbucks has probably sold more cups of coffee this week than all the previous weeks of this semester combined. And sleep? What's sleep? Maybe we'll finally find out this weekend. Hopefully your exams are coming to a close and you can clear those textbooks off your bed so you can, you know, sleep on it. But for now, take a five-minute study break for this week's high-stress edition of…
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Tuition based on inflation could cause frustration
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 10, 2007Which do you want first, the good news or the bad?
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Gay? Fine by us.
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 10, 2007Today would be a great day for you to reevaluate how you think about the people around you. What if you found out today that one of your friends were gay? What if your cousin told you he or she were transgender?
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Students may face new fee
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 9, 2007Add it to the list of things you thought you'd never have to pay for in college: a new technology fee.
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To Senate and Beyond
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 9, 2007It appears that being president of Student Senate wasn't enough for him. Now that Robert Agrusa has ended his term for Student Government, he's moving into real-world government. Or at least the Gainesville City Commission.
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Transparency committee wouldn't hurt UF's image
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 8, 2007Imagine our surprise when we heard UF President Bernie Machen finally decided to meet with members of Students for a Democratic Society who descended upon Tigert Hall more than a month ago.
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Gainesville will seek biomass plant proposals
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 8, 2007This is just what we love to hear. The sustainability-obsessed, tree-hugging, bicycle-powered, compact-fluorescent-light-bulb-buying (which we recycle when they burn out because they contain potentially harmful mercury), recycling enthusiasts here at the Alligator are, like, totally excited, man, about the proposed biomass plant that will eventually be built at Gainesville Regional Utilities' Deerhaven site.
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Crist changes mind on tuition hike
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 7, 2007Well, well, well. It seems Gov. Charlie Crist has finally come around to our side. Not willingly, of course. That would be crazy talk.
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Darts & Laurels
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 4, 2007It's a wild, wild world. This week has proven that to us. Student Government elections always seem a little animalistic - shark-like senate candidates preying on unsuspecting students, poll workers who seemed as slow as snails, plenty of revelers at the Orange & Brew who had a whale of a time. After all, we're animals, too. So hear us roar in this week's menagerie of…
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New student senators have their work cut out
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 3, 2007Was there ever any doubt?
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Outgoing senators don't make the grade
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 2, 2007As another Student Senate session comes to a close, we just have to ask, to paraphrase Janet Jackson: What have you done for us lately?
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No more excuses for voting procrastination
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 2, 2007We can understand if you didn't vote Tuesday. We'd be lying if we said we never used the rain as an excuse to skip classes, including Tuesday.
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Protests inevitable for Kevorkian's speech
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 1, 2007By now, you've probably seen the e-mail sent by UF President Bernie Machen about the slight delay for Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Accent-sponsored speech, which has been moved to Jan. 15. Machen & Co. claim this is for the safety of students because many students have already protested Kevorkian's appearance.
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Be sure to vote
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 1, 2007With the Student Government elections happening today and Wednesday, you, the students, can have a say in what happens at UF.
