At first glance, Dove World Outreach Center's plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 seems like an easy target.
Although I’ve never been married or had any biological children (that I know of), I find myself in the precarious situation of “staying together for the kids.”
As a UF student, you might take it for granted that you can visit your loved ones whenever you like. It takes but a single call to arrange a visit, a simple drive or, at most, a flight or two. Even if you are an international student, you can plan in advance to visit your family back home during summer or semester breaks.
Allow me to begin by lobbing a grenade into the mine field.
Palm Beach County isn’t exactly known for its good voting record.
A guy walks into a bar. He gets a drink, stands up and says, "All politicians are crooks." A man in the corner replies, "Hey, I resent that." First guy asks, "Why, are you a politician?" Man in the corner says, "No, I'm a crook."
The Dove World Outreach Center's hateful plan to burn Qurans on Sept. 11 prompts a lot of responses from people.
There is a crook trying to get inside the governor's mansion.
In Student Senate Tuesday night, the Student Alliance brought forth a resolution to condemn the Quran burning event by the Dove World Outreach Center scheduled for Sept. 11. The event is already being protested by many outraged students and has been met with vehement opposition from local and national media groups. The fact that the traditionally open and tolerant city of Gainesville will be the site of such an egregious event is a blight on our community and everyone who lives within it.
For the past two months, y'all have been subjected to a never-ending parade of "freshman advice" columns where writers muster up all the meaningless humanitarian niceties and spew them on print in their best imitation of Dr. Phil, devoid of anything entertaining or soul-rotting.
For many college students, Labor Day means the end of a summer job or summer fun, the start of a new school year and perhaps the kickoff of
A leader, above all else, has a responsibility to those he or she governs.
The grass is green. The flowers are blooming. And the chin pubes are sprouting.
Picture in your mind the most wonderful, pristine girl in the world. She cooks, rips your friends when they’re being complete tools, and is down for making any place her personal bedroom. For about 75 percent of you, the image of Vince’s porn-star girlfriend from Entourage pops up. Go with it. For girls, just picture Don Draper covered in flowers and Nicholas Sparks novels.
I’ve got some advice for freshmen.
To: The UF Freshmen and Transfer Students
Welcome to UF. You are now a student at the flagship academic institution of the state of Florida. With a University of Florida degree, you have endless career opportunities and a promising shot at some of the nation’s top graduate programs.
Welcome to the University of Florida and The Gator Nation!
Freedom is an addictive thing, isn’t it? Each time we get a little bit more freedom to do anything, regardless of the positive or negative impacts, we cling to it like a mother clinging to her newly born baby. It is our baby. It is our everything. But why is this so? Why do we find it so difficult to let go of any kind of freedom? I would put my hard-earned Monopoly money on the reason being a human tendency, to grasp onto anything that enables us to express ourselves. Since expression can be quasi-defined as life, the opportunity to live to one’s fullest potential, which I believe is infinite, can be equated as freedom.
We have about 80 years to live, and about one-third of that we spend unconscious. And I don’t mean because of an accumulation of hard nights at Midtown. Throw in work, education, eating, daily household and personal hygiene chores, and the roughly five years everyone spends in a line of some sort just waiting for something like a red light to turn green.
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