UF Student Senate President Ben Meyers’ committee to curb free enterprise shows just how far today’s young leaders have gone in rejecting the American free-market system.
Facts don’t faze the right in teen pregnancy debate.
I was really glad to see the Ben Meyers column in Wednesday’s paper. I believe it helped remind the student body that despite the Board of Trustees delaying block tuition, it still has an imminent deadline. Logically, this topic should have generated a larger reaction than it has in the past few months. However, when I talk to my friends and fellow students about block tuition, what I find is that they just don’t know all the details regarding it. At the same time, I can’t blame them, as the administration has been equally vague in disclosing various aspects concerning the issue.
Ben Meyers’ wildly unfounded castigation of block tuition as an impediment to students’ ability to obtain a “complete education” is a dreadfully poor and specious evaluation. Meyers rants about how we want our UF graduates to be diverse, well-rounded and engaged citizens of the world, suggesting that this can somehow only be accomplished by means of a course load of 12 or fewer credits a semester. This offensive insinuation that one extra class a semester would indisputably cripple the average student embarrassingly underestimates the tenacity, ambition and work ethic of the Gator Nation. Simply taking a course load that will allow students to actually graduate on time should not be characterized by our SG officials as a “burdensome” challenge. Block tuition rewards the overachievers, incentivizes the slow movers and continues to allow the flexibility for students to learn at their own pace on their own dime.
Laura Ellermeyer, author of Tuesday’s tutoring column, could have gone to TA sessions for free to prepare for the exam. ECO 2013 has TAs available seven periods a day, five days a week. I’m not sure if practice tests were made available last semester. They usually are and are by far the best way to prepare for an exam.
In “Teenage pregnancy not so glamorous,” Anita Babbitt argues that abstinence-only sex education is to blame for higher teen pregnancy rates.
The Alligator seems to have lost its way as a news source.
While Chad Kimes’ vision for a brave new world certainly is breathtaking, his call for “forced abortions” is not a modest proposal.
The pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy is truly silly. I have graduated from this school of thought into a much more sensible camp: pro-abortion. Abortion as birth control is a practice of the past; abortion as population control is what is needed for our society to function in the coming years.
Bigwords.com: buy books for low prices, sell them for a mint? After reading Alexander Klausner’s article on Monday I had to see for myself. So, I went to the site, and looked into a few books.
Dec. 16, students will see nearly three years of cumulative effort come to a vote when the Faculty Senate meets. Provost Joe Glover has stated the proposal to make the Wednesday before Thanksgiving a holiday will be considered at this meeting.
The issue of world hunger has existed for many years. As an American, I know I sometimes forget the problem is right in my own backyard.
I have accepted I will disagree with the editorial staff of the Alligator on almost any given political issue, but Monday’s offensive editorial needs to be addressed.
While the Kyoto Protocol has been signed and ratified by virtually every world power, the exceptions being the United States and Australia, the international policy itself offers no real solutions to climate change.
The idea of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is ridiculous.
Editor’s note: This letter, sent to staff writer Jon Silman, is being printed with the permission of its author.
Columnist Chris Dodson makes an inaccurate point about Congressional lame duck sessions in his Monday column.
I come from a family where everyone for several generations has graduated college, and most of my immediate family own businesses. What I’ve noticed most since becoming a student at the university is that I have a very uncommon perspective.
The fact that Facebook is revamping its messaging system is no cause for alarm or uproar.
I got pregnant with my first child at 18 and my second at 20. I’m now a single mom of two and a full-time student. From the start, I’ve refused to become just another unfortunate teen mom statistic.
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