OPINION
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COLUMNS
The Textbook Problem
By Amanda Martinez | July 17, 2019Knowledge may be priceless, but textbooks certainly aren’t.
Opinion
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Putting the Martian meme into perspective
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 15, 2019Get your hiking shoes on and perfect your “Naruto run” because in another case of ‘the internet made me do it,’ it looks like we are raiding Area 51.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
We need the right statues to represent Florida’s values
By Jason Zappulla | July 15, 2019You may think choosing statues is irrelevant. But when Florida decides which two statues it’s going to send to represent us in our nation’s capital, they aren’t just statues.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
UF’s dark history of animal testing
By Cassidy Hopson | July 11, 2019Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in U.S. labs every year in the name of “science.”
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Summer pastimes for the soul
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 11, 2019Just because you have summer classes doesn’t mean you can’t tap into a youthful experience with exploration and adventure.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter to the Editor: Grabowski fails to Inspire
By Branden Pearson | July 9, 2019When the student senate returned for the beginning of the Summer B term, they did so with less senators and a lot more potential. Over the past few weeks, partisanship in the Senate chamber has risen to an all-time high, culminating in the departure of former senators Grabowski and Lima.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Betsy Ross flag should be a symbol of our values not hate
By Jason Zappulla | July 9, 2019Nike, Colin Kaepernick, the American flag and slavery combined together to create a lightning rod of controversy last week.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Darts & Laurels: July 9, 2019
By Alligator Editorial Board | July 9, 2019Your body has an annoying amount of cortisol running through it.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
The various levels of catfishing
By Amanda Martinez | July 1, 2019Filters and Facetune can help, but what is the differentiation between putting your best self out there and pretending to be someone you’re not?
OPINION
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COLUMNS
UF expansion plans bring both good ideas and concerns
By Jason Zappulla | July 1, 2019UF is planning for a lot of changes in the coming years.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Summer B rules to live by
By Alligator Editorial Board | July 1, 2019Summer B marks the halfway point of summer session, but for most of the fresh faces on campus, this is just the beginning.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Darts & Laurels: June 20, 2019
By The Alligator Editorial Board | June 20, 2019The time has come to leave this ghost town and return a week later when it’s renewed with young, innocent, naive and hopeful life.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Why you shouldn’t give cash to homeless people
By Amanda Martinez | June 20, 2019What you should give goes beyond dollar bills.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Florida needs to keep the smoking age at 18
By Cassidy Hopson | June 18, 2019Legislation to raise the smoking age isn’t the right way to curb tobacco use.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Florida needs to raise the smoking age to 21
By Jason Zappulla | June 18, 2019Tobacco should be regulated as the health risks it is.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Forgiveness does not preclude reparations
By Alligator Editorial Board | June 18, 2019On Monday, Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland shooting survivor, said Harvard rescinded his admission after screenshots showed him using racial slurs in late 2017 and early 2018. Earlier this year, the 18-year old high school outreach director for Turning Point USA (a conservative non-profit student organization) was admitted to the university class of 2023.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Plagiarism in Student Government, part 4
By Zachariah Chou | June 13, 2019"This week, I would like to talk about an anti-Semitism resolution that almost passed in Senate and all the behind the scenes shenanigans that highlight the disfunction of majority party senators."
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
"They want us dead."
By Lindsey Breneman | June 13, 2019"I don’t want to be writing about these repugnant men....But these people are dangerous."
OPINION
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DARTS LAURELS
Darts & Laurels: June 13, 2019
By Alligator Editorial Board | June 13, 2019It’s the weekend, or at least your definition of it, as you only have class three days a week.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Homophobic attacks show why we need Pride Month
By Jason Zappulla | June 11, 2019Let’s not give into hate or distraction.
