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Online voting would increase coercion

By Matt Michel | Feb. 14, 2008

On Thursday Scott Erker asked, "How can voting over the Internet be more subject to coercion than, say, being at a frat or sorority dinner and having the president say 'you better vote tomorrow and here is who we are voting for?'" The greatest virtue of voting at designated polls - and the reason online voting has not caught on for national or state elections - is the fact that we have a secret ballot.

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UF Supreme Court not playing fairly

By Ryan Nelson | Feb. 14, 2008

Dear UF Supreme Court, you clearly do not deserve to finish your degrees being that you have no comprehension of how the law works. A constitutional amendment allowing online voting was denied Tuesday on the grounds that - wait for it - it was unconstitutional. Let us all shout a resounding, "Duh."By definition, any constitutional amendment is unconstitutional. If it wasn't we wouldn't need to amend anything now would we? Your decision to deny students the right to vote on their own constitution is unfathomable.

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Orange and Blue should do research

By Lacey Logsdon | Feb. 14, 2008

Mark McShera's comments about Student Government's alleged "wasteful spending" reveal either his desire to misrepresent the facts or the Orange and Blue Party's inability to understand current trends in SG finance.

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SG has stopped caring about students

By Frank Bracco | Feb. 14, 2008

In response to Derek Clenzi's letter, I'm glad to see Tau Epsilon Phi is encouraging its brothers to write to the editor.

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Online voting won’t change elections

Feb. 13, 2008

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Online voting threatens SG monopoly

Feb. 13, 2008

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34th Street memorial not untouchable

Feb. 13, 2008

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SG elections are worth trip to poll

Feb. 13, 2008

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Court decision ignores will of students

Feb. 13, 2008

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Religions should evolve with science

By Pamela D'Andrea | Feb. 12, 2008

In response to "Board evaluating evolution," I would like to urge all religious conservatives to allow for the evolution of their religions.

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Memorial still needs to be respected

By Torey Greenwald | Feb. 12, 2008

I am a huge proponent of freedom of speech. I believe wholeheartedly that we must allow people to voice their opinion, even when I disagree with it to the greatest extent.

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Many pedophiles cannot be treated

By Rachel Brenner | Feb. 12, 2008

Although Rebecca Bauman's column sighting the need for rehabilitation for sex offenders is respectable, she forgot to mention the psychology behind these individuals.

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Choice of friends is based on comfort

By Christine Davis | Feb. 12, 2008

In response to Monday's letter from Danielle Emenhiser, segregation is a part of nature - cows in herds, birds in flocks, fish in schools and humans in cliques, clubs and organizations.

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Genocide denial insensitive

By Frank LoGrippo | Feb. 11, 2008

In response to the controversy surrounding the presentation given by professor McCarthy Friday, I wish to voice both my opinion and knowledge regarding the factuality of the Armenian genocide orchestrated by the Ottoman Turks in 1915.

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Segregation alive on Turlington Plaza

By Danielle Emenhiser | Feb. 10, 2008

Why does Turlington have two names?

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No evidence for Armenian genocide

By Tufan Gokirmak | Feb. 10, 2008

Regarding Tigran Kesayan's Friday letter, apparently Mr. Kesayan has never been exposed to Dr. McCarthy's work before - otherwise he would at least know that his name is not James McCarthy but Justin McCarthy. If you don't even know somebody's real name, how can you question his scientific work?

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Professors arguments unsupported

By Tigran Kesayan | Feb. 10, 2008

Last Friday there was an extremely biased, highly misrepresentative and clearly false argument presented by Professor McCarthy as he denied the genocide of Armenians in 1915. It is important to note that an overwhelming majority of the information presented in McCarthy's lecture came from his own research - the same research which has been called "carelessly written, often misinformed, and shamelessly following a Turkish nationalist agenda" by prominent scholars such as the International Association of Genocide Scholars and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

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Procreation does not define a marriage

By Theresa Sumrall | Feb. 7, 2008

To claim, as Burwell did in Wednesday's column, that marriage is defined and given meaning by a couple's ability to have (heterosexual) sex - and subsequent offspring - is absurd.

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Religion and public policy shouldn’t mix

By Ashley Carnifax | Feb. 7, 2008

After reading Benjamin Burwell's column on the Marriage Protection Amendment, I stared at it in disbelief. I'm not at all surprised that there are people who still think it is okay to discriminate against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

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Column not representative of all Catholics

By Horacio Sierra | Feb. 7, 2008

The column supporting the anti-gay marriage amendment is a disappointing rehash of illogical arguments.