On May 8, Sasha Morel published an editorial in The Alligator arguing the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative isolates Florida's best debaters and does more harm than good.
Stoicism is a strange philosophy. At its core, there's a belief that only the directly controllable aspects of life should have an impact on your psyche.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve spent weekends in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal, and Prague, Czechia.
The Florida Forensics League state tournament is generally considered the premier speech and debate championship for Sunshine State residents. This year, though, my students told me it felt like a glorified local meet.
So I resolved the odd little passion I had for numbers to a fun fact, something to mention in passing: “I used to really love drawing graphs in physics class, isn’t that funny?”
But when I finally did apply, I was rejected. It wasn’t until a few weeks into the semester I received a call from the then-editor-in-chief asking me to join the ranks.
But in the wee hours of that Monday morning, I held a copy of The Sun from the Wawa newspaper stand in one hand, some fries and a Diet Coke balanced in the other, and marveled at my own published words. Something clicked. I wanted to chase that feeling forever.
The relationships I built here, and this place itself, gave me a purpose of responsibility.
So why do students fill The Alligator’s newsroom every Sunday for our staff meetings, spilling out into the hallway and onto the floor? It’s a common belief that the stories we share matter.
I’m not much like Carrie. I dream of owning a closet half as fabulous as hers, and I would love a cushy writing job where I only produce one column a week and can still afford to live in New York.
But today, most lectures feel like obligations. For professors, they are a box to check between research deadlines and publication quotas. For students, they are something to loathe, groan through and — on those days you just can’t bear the bore — skip.
In a state where natural systems are already under pressure, AI data centers are a development Florida should approach with caution or avoid altogether.
In my most recent semester at UF, a lot of my class syllabuses stated the use of AI was permitted when appropriate and when properly disclosed. In Madrid, all of my syllabuses strictly prohibit the use of AI in any form.
AI has suspended us in a state of vertigo as we wonder if the world we know is real or fake, or if the conceptions of reality we hold will collapse underneath our feet. The question has now become whether we ought to embrace this vertigo as our new reality, or if we should fight against the expansion of AI content.
Electronic line-calling and automated umpire systems are quietly stripping away a part of sports we love: the messy stuff. Who’s the overzealous fan supposed to yell at now?
The use of AI in Brody’s experience, and the fact a performance benefiting from AI earned the premier award in the acting world, sets a dangerous precedent for the future of acting.
If you’ve ever watched a match and wondered why on earth players make such strange, dramatic noises when they hit the ball, you’re not alone.
Aimee kept that commitment even though she always had the right to change it.
The risk isn’t in getting the HPV vaccine — it’s in skipping it.
Another troubling finding questioned whether some patients were dead when organ recovery began.
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