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Take a chance and make the most of your college experience
Aug. 16, 2015If you’re new to college, chances are you’re missing home.
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Students entering homeless week struggle, but have strength
Aug. 3, 2015Ah, the last days of the Summer semester are upon those among us still attending, and we now stand upon the precipice of a difficult time for some students. I’m not referring to the distinct lack of sunshine over the past week, nor do I speak lightly of nights many will spend studying for their finals or finishing their final projects.
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Shooting on campus a small but scary matter
July 27, 2015News of a shooting on campus is a guaranteed recipe for fear and trepidation in the nation’s heart, and even more so locally when news of the shooting is as close to home as Murphree Hall at UF.
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Limit our own gun rights
July 20, 2015Guns are a pretty hot topic. They shoot things. They often harm things. And they have a distressing habit of occasionally bringing harm to those we’d prefer stay safe.
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Flags aside, we have freedom
July 13, 2015On Thursday, Gainesville actively joined the national controversy surrounding the Confederate flag. Protesters came out to speak for and against the status of a statue depicting a confederate soldier, which has the words “In memory of the Confederate dead” inscribed along its pedestal.
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Why we’re happily terrified of sharks
July 6, 2015Hello Gainesville. We hope you’re having a good day, recovering from your Independence Day celebrations and enjoying the onset of Discovery Channel’s latest rendition of Shark Week.
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Busy news week shows good, bad of United States
June 29, 2015All right, we at the Independent Florida Alligator leave our posts for a week and the United States decides to up and blow its top with national news and national controversies bubbling over like some witch’s brew.
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Jeb Bush joins an overflowing GOP pool
June 15, 2015Jeb Bush announced his candidacy for presidency Monday. About time, if you ask us.
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World Cup commences despite shadow of corruption
June 8, 2015Despite international arrests and corruption charges that rocked the FIFA world last month, the Women’s World Cup commences this week with much ado. Team USA has its work cut out for it as it faced Australia, the No. 10 ranked team in the world, and later competes against Sweden, ranked No. 5.
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95 percent of airport security fails at security
June 1, 2015Don’t read this editorial if you enjoy the illusion of airport security being effective.
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Memorial Day: A time for remembrance, thanks
May 25, 2015The Alligator often represents the voice of millennials and young college-aged men and women, and sometimes it’s said that our generation forgets the sacrifices of those before us in the name of youthful narcissism and detachment from world affairs.
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Sometimes you must teach to learn A life’s lessons
May 18, 2015A troop of four Cub Scouts came to the Alligator office Monday looking to get a glimpse at what goes into the day-to-day production of our newspaper.
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Pets aren’t as easy to abandon as old furniture
Apr. 20, 2015The last days of school are here. Classes end Wednesday, which is the Alligator’s last day in print for the semester. It’s the cusp of Spring and Summer; only finals stand in our way.
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Rubio the strongest candidate the GOP has in the race
Apr. 13, 2015Good god — another day, another campaign announcement. This is starting to get out of hand. There’s what, 18, 19 months until the election?
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Bystander video important for accountability
Apr. 8, 2015One person’s decision to film a police altercation has radically altered the outcome of a police shooting in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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2016 Republican presidential platforms underway
Apr. 7, 2015We’re barely a quarter of the way through 2015, and yet 2016’s presidential race is already in its second wave of heating up.
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Reflections on the UVA/Rolling Stone rape story report
Apr. 6, 2015It seems a chapter of one of the year’s most grueling stories — one that encompasses journalism, college life and sexual assault — has come to an end.
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Students shouldn’t be kept in dark for presidential searches
Apr. 5, 2015Giving any attention to the under-handed mischief and general plots that go on in state-level politics becomes exasperating really quickly. It’s difficult not to think of state legislatures as places where objectionable ideas go to get put in legally binding ink.
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Uber ride-share deal promising, but we have some concerns
Apr. 1, 2015Prepare yourselves for one hell of a ride-sharing experience: Uber is coming to UF.
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‘The Daily Show’ replacement unexpected, but a Noah-brainer
Mar. 30, 2015It’s been about a month and a half since Jon Stewart announced his retirement from “The Daily Show.” The time between then and now was spent frantically wondering who was going to replace the beloved comedian’s seat at Comedy Central’s World News Headquarters in New York. Fans mourned the end of Stewart’s 16-year tenure as the show’s host, and some offered up their own opinions as to who should succeed the comedian who has become one of the most trusted men in America. Some hoped “Daily Show” correspondent Jessica Williams would replace Stewart, but she dispelled the rumors in a tweet saying she was “extremely under-qualified” for the position. That was Feb. 15; since then, most of us decided to sit tight and try to ignore the inevitable.
