New York City used to be the city of hopes and dreams. Today, we see a different narrative emerging.
On May 20, 1865, U.S. General Edward M. McCook gave the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in the state of Florida. During the Civil War, more than 1,000 African-American Floridians joined nearly a quarter of a million African-Americans across the nation to serve in the Union Army and Navy. Many more worked as scouts, spies and laborers in a struggle to end the long nightmare of slavery. Henceforth, African-American Floridians observed May 20 as a sacred day of remembrance of the Peculiar Institution’s many victims, and in hope that the nation would nevermore place property rights above human rights.
Last semester, the Alligator ran a comic strip that alluded to a scene from an Indiana Jones movie. In the comic, the character, Short Round, who is Asian, inquired about the keyboard clacking noises coming from the study-in led by the Computer and Information Science and Engineering students.
There are few things more telling about an administration than cabinet-level appointees. You can learn a lot about the inner workings and unadvertised positions of a presidency just by examining the kinds of people who surround the executive and their behavior.
Most of us have probably seen the trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, “The Dictator.”
To quote Seth Meyers, “President Obama was finally outed as a Democrat.”
A conservative on a college campus can achieve a serene state of being that is pursued by many but accomplished by few: the status of a contrarian.
A few weeks ago, practically everyone in my major flipped out when the news story broke that employers were asking applicants for their Facebook login information.
President Obama is right to claim that the Republican Party has been “radical” and “extremist” in its approach to deficit reduction. I welcome his refreshingly blunt rhetoric.
It’s that time of the year when everyone’s asking about summer plans. By now, we all spew that scripted answer — a summer job, studying abroad, going back home or even staying in Gainesville. Then there’s perhaps the most visible breed: those who’ve snagged a prestigious summer internship.
Most of us enter college with the intention to change society for the better.
This month, Mitt Romney continued the disturbing and growing trend of attacking higher education when he said that President Barack Obama “spent too much time at Harvard.”
Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more colloquially known as Obamacare. Now President Obama is using his office to inappropriately sway the court’s eventual ruling.
I know many of you are disappointed you did not win the $640 million Mega Millions jackpot over the weekend. Dreams of never working again, living the high life and naming UF after yourself are gone forever.
Facebook is essentially about two fundamental things: jealousy and exhibition.
The limits of what constitutes a racist act are too liberally defined today. With a heightened sensitivity to racial inequality, we’ve become overzealous when classifying things as racist.
Brought to you by the same state that found Casey Anthony not-guilty of murder, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Trayvon Martin case.
Today, the Supreme Court will begin to hear arguments for the most significant case since the likes of Gideon v. Wainwright, Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona in the battle over Obama’s health care reform.
Despite the pleas coming from both the left and right calling for further government intervention in the energy industry, green and alternative energy sources are still unable to compete with coal and natural gas.
When the Florida legislature passed a bill requiring general drug testing for all state workers, our representatives and senators conveniently excluded themselves from this requirement.
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