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The Textbook Problem
By Amanda Martinez | July 17, 2019Knowledge may be priceless, but textbooks certainly aren’t.
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We need the right statues to represent Florida’s values
By Jason Zappulla | July 15, 2019You may think choosing statues is irrelevant. But when Florida decides which two statues it’s going to send to represent us in our nation’s capital, they aren’t just statues.
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UF’s dark history of animal testing
By Cassidy Hopson | July 11, 2019Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in U.S. labs every year in the name of “science.”
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Betsy Ross flag should be a symbol of our values not hate
By Jason Zappulla | July 9, 2019Nike, Colin Kaepernick, the American flag and slavery combined together to create a lightning rod of controversy last week.
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The various levels of catfishing
By Amanda Martinez | July 1, 2019Filters and Facetune can help, but what is the differentiation between putting your best self out there and pretending to be someone you’re not?
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UF expansion plans bring both good ideas and concerns
By Jason Zappulla | July 1, 2019UF is planning for a lot of changes in the coming years.
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Why you shouldn’t give cash to homeless people
By Amanda Martinez | June 20, 2019What you should give goes beyond dollar bills.
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Florida needs to keep the smoking age at 18
By Cassidy Hopson | June 18, 2019Legislation to raise the smoking age isn’t the right way to curb tobacco use.
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Florida needs to raise the smoking age to 21
By Jason Zappulla | June 18, 2019Tobacco should be regulated as the health risks it is.
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Plagiarism in Student Government, part 4
By Zachariah Chou | June 13, 2019"This week, I would like to talk about an anti-Semitism resolution that almost passed in Senate and all the behind the scenes shenanigans that highlight the disfunction of majority party senators."
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Homophobic attacks show why we need Pride Month
By Jason Zappulla | June 11, 2019Let’s not give into hate or distraction.
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Is our obsession with true crime ethical?
By Cassidy Hopson | June 5, 2019For months, I remember coming home from elementary school and excitedly turning on the television each night to hear the same opening words, “Bombshell in the courtroom.”
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Plagiarism in Student Government, part 3
By Zachariah Chou | June 5, 2019There sure seems to be a lot of plagiarism in Student Government, eh? It’s almost as if there’s this whole entire environment filled with people who don’t care about the rules.
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Dear Tyler Kendrick, I sure hope you feel bad
By Zachariah Chou | June 5, 2019While I was re-learning grammar for the like the third time, the course I was taking made a point to distinguish between “feeling bad” and “feeling badly.”
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Art and the artist: should there be a separation?
By Amanda Martinez | June 3, 2019Do we love our morals more than Kanye loves Kanye?
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Why solo traveling is worth it
By Liana Murphy | May 30, 2019Now that summer is fast approaching, some of you may be looking for ways to spend these sunny days.
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How the reusable straw movement fails the environment
May 30, 2019Last year was the year Twitter banded together to ditch plastic straws.
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To All the Boys I’ve Ghosted Before
By Amanda Martinez | May 27, 2019Saying everything while saying nothing at all.
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A rebuttal to Bret Stephens and other Millennial critics
By Jason Zappulla | May 27, 2019Ah, Millennials.
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Plagiarism in Student Government, Part 2
By Zachariah Chou | May 22, 2019Now I know I have mentioned Student Body President Michael Murphy’s borderline plagiarized inaugural speech in my last couple of columns, but I feel like I should probably do my due diligence and write about other instances of plagiarism that have happened in the past.
