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Legalizing pot would harm society
By Gary Colon | Mar. 31, 2009Yea, let's go ahead and legalize it.
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Cutting Geology program not answer to budget woes
By John Kelley | Mar. 31, 2009I am a fourth-year senior in the Department of Geological Sciences, a department that despite its prolific publication record and contributions to scholarship is now facing the ax. If the state revenues are as dire as predicted, the college will require that we cut all the lab managers, nontenured faculty and an office worker (we only have three). In simple terms, this means that for every $9 cut from the budget, one dollar comes directly from geology.
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Guns on campus editorial lacks fact
By Kyle Sandell | Mar. 30, 2009Leave it to the Alligator Editorial Board to argue gun rights on purely emotional rather than logical or factual grounds.
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Guns editorial irrational, alarmist
By Sterling Davenport | Mar. 30, 2009The editorial printed in Monday's Alligator about concealed carry on campus was irrational and unduly alarmist.
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Concealed carry laws justified
By Jordan Pratt | Mar. 30, 2009As a concealed-weapons permit holder and admitted UF law student, I couldn't help but shake my head at Monday's Alligator editorial "Guns have no place on college campuses," in which the question was posed, "Who is to say that if passed, these bills won't lead to coeds pulling guns on their significant other over a minor disagreement or professors feeling unsafe in their own classrooms?"
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Documentary Institute needs to survive
By Jonathan Bougher | Mar. 29, 2009By eliminating the Documentary Institute, it is now clear that Dean John Wright is utilizing the current budget crisis to reshape the College of Journalism and Communications to his own vision and heed the advice to "never waste a good crisis." He claims that the DI is "not as central to the college's mission." I would invite everyone to read the college's mission statement on its Web site. It states, foremost, that the college should produce "exemplary professional practitioners" for "various journalism and communication fields." From another perspective, the DI could fit directly into the college's mission, which is open to wide interpretation. Unfortunately, the DI does not fit into the more personal mission of Dean Wright.
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Doctors should be paid based on work
By Dr. David E. Winchester | Mar. 29, 2009I am not part of the UF Faculty Practice Plan, but I do know that it is common practice (especially in large doctor groups) for doctors to be paid a base salary and then additional income based on how many patients they see. That way, people who work harder and see more patients get additional income.
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Opportunity Scholars deserve their awards
By BRANDON SACK | Mar. 26, 2009Johnathan Lott's column on the need to increase the quality of education at UF is well-intentioned but terribly misguided. First, Florida Opportunity Scholars are held to the same admission standards as other UF students. So to suggest that there is a "lack of any notable academic qualifications" is to suggest that not only are the scholarship recipients underqualified, but that the rest of UF students are undeserving of admissions as well. Immediately after, he suggested that this program is risky because some of the money will be wasted on students who "can't handle UF."
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UF needs geological sciences
By Robert E. Hernandez | Mar. 24, 2009As a current undergraduate student, OPS research assistant and future applicant to graduate school at the University of Florida's Department of Geological Sciences, I urge Dean Paul D'Anieri, Provost Joe Glover, the Board of Trustees and President Bernie Machen to reconsider the taking a cleaver to the geological sciences department.
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Student earned seat in dental school
By Harriett Garris | Mar. 23, 2009I didn't know that I was lying to my child every time I said, "If you work hard enough, you can achieve anything."
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Article reveals bigotry
By Ryan Vandeventer | Mar. 22, 2009Richard Selwach reveals the real agenda of the "Yes on Charter Amendment 1" campaign in Hunter Sizemore's March 20 article.
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Broward Dining sparrows should be praised
By Steve Brotman | Mar. 18, 2009Darwin would be proud of the House Sparrow.
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Columnist misses point of Pentecostal Church
By Shaelyn McDaniel | Mar. 18, 2009I congratulate Allie Conti for venturing outside her comfort zone, but I am disappointed as to how little her horizons were truly broadened. While her observations as to the United Pentecostal Church may be accurate (I've never been there), expanding her generalizations to cover an entire denomination based on one visit is sloppy.
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Obama administration hypocritical
By Shane A. Christy | Mar. 18, 2009You know, I realize that nearly the entire Editorial Board is so completely infatuated with President Barack Obama, they don't even think of "change" as a monetary value, but let's really examine this.
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Column over–glorifies Stewart
By William Gower | Mar. 16, 2009Matthew Christ's column on Monday over-glorified Jon Stewart as our nation's court jester who leads a mob in finding the fallacies in claims made by financial news networks in today's economic crisis and in ordinary news networks heading into the Iraq War. I think a criticism of Stewart is warranted today.
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Proverb spreads Irish cheer
By Erin Costello | Mar. 16, 2009May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
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UF e–mail fails to deliver
By Ahmed Jorge | Mar. 15, 2009I do not understand how UF has an extraordinary main Web site, but our e-mail service is nothing short of rubbish.
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Columnist stands by satire
By Joshua Nederveld | Mar. 5, 2009For those of you who don't know me, or for those of you who I have offended, I apologize if you took the meaning of my column to be anything but satire. As an effective satire only mirrors reality, I stand by what I have written for a few reasons.
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Gym’s weight room not just for men
By Emily Congdon | Mar. 3, 2009Joshua Nederveld is a chauvinistic, pea-for-a-brain, wannabe meathead. As a woman who regularly uses the bench (with her measly 70 pounds), I am outraged by his delusional "unwritten laws" of the weight room.
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College should be an option for all
By Raul A. Baca | Mar. 2, 2009I want to commend the work the United We Dream at UF Campaign has done in the past week. I believe the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (the DREAM Act) is of great importance because it will resolve the tragic irony that occurs in America.
