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Brace yourselves, we’re in for a brain drain.
May 19, 2008Elizabeth Hillaker, UF Alumnus
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Alligator offers summer opportunities
By DEVIN CULCLASURE | May 12, 2008With the first day of class behind me, it has finally sunk in: Summer is here.
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Obama's war plan worrisome
By D. Morgan Potts | Apr. 22, 2008Obama is selling himself as the president to settle the peace, not continue the war. Yet some of the senator's recent comments suggest he has far less of an interest in peace than in popularity. In an Associated Press interview from July 2007, Obama suggested that even the likelihood of genocide was insufficient grounds for retaining an American presence in Iraq. "If that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now - where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife - which we haven't done." Obama is implying America should bear as much responsibility for the security of citizens in a country we do not occupy as one we do. That is, none at all.
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Polygamist raid warranted
By Greg Pivarnik | Apr. 22, 2008The separation of church and state does not apply to religions that advocate sexual abuse and violence toward underage women. The Child Protective Services (CPS) made the correct decision to remove 416 minors from a polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas, earlier this month. Any arguments that attempt to defend the people at the compound, including anyone who advocates returning the children to their parents based on religious rights implied in the First Amendment, misunderstands the role the government has to protect its citizens from physical harm.
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Barbaric, antiquated capital punishment must be abandoned
Apr. 22, 2008Few issues represent so profound a moral conundrum and elicit so visceral an emotional response as capital punishment.
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Compassion needed to overcome past
By GERALD LILES | Apr. 21, 2008Nature takes wood in one of two ways: either fire burns it or water rots it away. If that wood forms the walls of a building, the way it happens can make all the difference in the world.
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Unrealistic cultural expectations of beauty unfair to women
By Claire Beach | Apr. 21, 2008You've seen them at the Plaza of the Americas: Student Government-sponsored billboards, in an effort to boost self-esteem, encouraging women to love their bodies, claiming that "diets don't work" and assuring everyone that confident women who don't worry about looking like supermodels are sexier than those who do.
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Pope's U.S. visit a showcase of excess
By VINCENT MASSARO | Apr. 20, 2008Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd, buy me some peanuts and -
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College ends in realization, discovery
By CARLY HALLAM | Apr. 17, 2008I've got new priorities. I'm holding onto old ways of life. The science of love is phony. The illness of Senioritis is real. I think men should be more respected by advertisers. I think women should be more respected in general. I like lifestyle changes to be small but significant. I like Moe's portions to be small but filling. I'm saying "bring it on" to the future and "back off" to Facebook. I don't like Gainesville all the time, but the sadness of leaving makes me break into rhyme.
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Take advantage of UF while you can
Apr. 16, 2008The time has come. I have started marking my calendar with the dates and locations of my final exams. I am making finishing touches on end-of-the-semester projects. I have called my mom to double-check my moving date, and I have begun assessing how much shoe-shopping money I will make from selling my textbooks.
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Resources available on campus
By HEATHER LEHMKUHL | Apr. 15, 2008College life has many benefits: new friends, new experiences, and no curfew. But it also brings stress that's related to grades, bills, time management, dating, parent conflicts and homesickness.
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Mental illness stigma should be overcome
By ANA TURNER | Apr. 15, 2008Although psychology and psychiatry are relatively new fields, the concept of mental illness is not. In the 5th century B.C., a man living with epilepsy was thought to be affected by the moon god.
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Gators asked to remember those lost in Va. Tech tragedy
By JACQUELYN HORSTMANN | Apr. 15, 2008We Remember.
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Bill endorses religion in classrooms
Apr. 15, 2008It has been more than 20 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against teaching creationism "science" in public schools, finding it a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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Academia fragmented, not knowledge
By GERALD LILES | Apr. 14, 2008What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
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Parents should regulate their children's online activities
By Kevin Dion | Apr. 14, 2008In Thursday's Alligator, Rebecca Ganzak wrote in her column that she feels there needs to be regulations governing the "appropriateness" of content available on the Internet. I feel that the actions proposed in Thursday's column are the wrong ones to take.
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Stadium Club too exclusive for area
By VINCENT MASSARO | Apr. 13, 2008I try to avoid whining in my column, but sometimes I can't help it. Actually, I whine most of the time. OK, all I do is whine.
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A farewell poem to a college town
By CARLY HALLAM | Apr. 10, 2008I may never again live in an all-college town
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Internet needs some form of regulation
Apr. 9, 2008I have seen the promotions, watched videos and listened to several computer-savvy friends explain to me why the Internet should be a free and uncensored flow of entertainment and information. I used to agree.
