Prepaid won't help those who need it most
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 25, 2009Last week, registration began for parents who want to purchase Florida prepaid college plans for their children.
Last week, registration began for parents who want to purchase Florida prepaid college plans for their children.
It's been a busy week at the Alligator (go figure). Just when we thought exams were over and all was quiet on the West University Avenue front, another parade took us by surprise. This time, it was a festival of suck that hit us like a dump truck loaded with your neighbor's rotten Wu-Tang pumpkin that he carved way too early and allowed to marinate in the sun...
Let's just come out and say it - the health care system in America has really seen better days. From insurers booting sick people to the curb to the elderly having to choose between food and much-needed prescription drugs, the States definitely lag behind the rest of the developed world in providing health care regardless of age or socioeconomic status.
Guzzling Gators and boozing Bulldogs will have to find new ways to get wasted at this year's UF-Georgia football game.
We've got a few bones to pick with university administrators after Monday's "bomb scare" in the Reitz Union.
Something was missing from Friday's Homecoming Parade.
UF's Greek community raised the bar on its self-importance at Gator Growl Friday night.
Once upon a time, we had time to sleep. But unfortunately, school has taken precedence over the rest we would prefer to have. We haven't seen our pillows since Wednesday, and our mothers think we're dead. Still, we trudge through this cesspool of a semester to deliver you a we-didn't-think-it-was-possible-to-function-on-five-hours-of-sleep-every-two-days-until-we-tried edition of...
After UF gymnast Melanie Sinclair's arrest Tuesday, a lot of questions remain unanswered.
Americans have become obsessed with promoting breast cancer awareness, and corporations have noticed.
In the next academic year, graduate students may receive a $500 stipend increase, thanks to a vote by the Graduate Assistants Student Union.
Although the use of public transportation in Florida is relatively unimpressive overall, Alachua County manages to stay ahead of the curve.
In a recent advertisement for its Blue Label line of jeans, Ralph Lauren created an advertisement that featured model Filippa Hamilton in a pair of the brand's $500 Tartan Patchwork jeans.
The day before tens of thousands of gay rights supporters marched on Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama spoke at the annual Human Rights Campaign black-tie dinner, vowing to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
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It's been a pretty stressful week at the Alligator. Not only do we all have exams coming up, we've also been doing the jobs of several people. It's been so rough that we might even take our three-day weekend early. On that note, we present to you a doing-homework-at-home-has-never-sounded-so-appealing edition of…
The U.S. Supreme Court is debating the constitutionality of a cross erected in the Mojave National Preserve as a memorial honoring fallen soldiers.
A Fort Lauderdale nurse resigned after she was caught reusing IV tubing and saline bags while giving cardiac stress tests to patients over the past five years.
In an attempt to reign as fast food's king of the grill, Burger King Corp. officials have announced plans to overhaul its 12,000 restaurant locations.
A Miami man apparently wanted his Taco Bell "fourthmeal" so badly that he thought it was worth a few bullets.