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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Alligator Innovation Academy Story: I beg to differ
Apr. 16, 2015To Whom It May Concern:
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Israel does care
Apr. 14, 2015The effects of war are undoubtedly tragic. Loss of life, regardless of any affiliating identity, is always devastating. Mothers weep for their sons; sons weep for their mothers. Fathers fear for their daughters; daughters fear for their fathers. We all cry the same tears. We all bleed the same blood. My flesh is his flesh, and his mine. I feel profound empathy for the pain people feel, for the grief the Israeli-Palestinian conflict causes on a daily basis, to both Israelis and Palestinians.
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New emojis finally acknowledge life’s diversity
Apr. 14, 2015Apple released its newest operating system, iOS 8.3, last Wednesday. Among plenty of updates, Siri is now capable of calling someone on speakerphone, and Braille Screen Input users can fill out forms on Web pages. The most obvious update, however, is Apple’s introduction of more than 300 inclusive emojis.
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EDITORIALS
Rubio the strongest candidate the GOP has in the race
Apr. 13, 2015Good god — another day, another campaign announcement. This is starting to get out of hand. There’s what, 18, 19 months until the election?
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Time to stop justifying discrimination with religion
Apr. 13, 2015Last Thursday, The New York Times published an article about Orthodox Jewish men refusing to sit next to women they are not related to when boarding planes. This raises the question: At what point does one person’s religious freedom end and another’s basic rights begin?
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Water belongs to people, not companies
Apr. 13, 2015As California scrambles to conserve water during a historic drought, one multinational company is continuing to take huge gulps of the state’s water for profit. Nestle Waters North America, a subsidiary of food and beverage company Nestle, has been tapping California’s groundwater to sell in plastic bottles for its Arrowhead and Pure Life brands.
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America needs tax reform, and we need it now
Apr. 12, 2015Tax Day is upon us, providing us another example of how overbearing and complicated our government truly is. April 15 is the deadline every year when every citizen must hesitantly file his or her taxes or face the wrath of the uncontrollable Internal Revenue Service. The tax code has become quite a monstrosity over the past few decades. It is riddled with all kinds of loopholes and deductions for corporations and wealthy people to take advantage of, leaving the middle class stuck with the bill.
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Women are too easily influenced by societal norms in their quest for perfection despite improvements
Apr. 12, 2015Society has transformed minimally when it comes to women’s rights.
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DARTS LAURELS
Hummus, conversion therapy and cell phone footage in this week's Darts & Laurels
Apr. 9, 2015We don’t know about you, but we just realized how close it is to the end of the semester and freaked out so hard we temporarily lost consciousness. Seriously. Well, whatever — soon, we’ll all be off somewhere far away, doing what we do best and miss dearly: sleeping.
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Gov. Scott’s Medicaid reversal puts politics ahead of Florida
Apr. 9, 2015In a decision that should shock no one, Gov. Rick Scott reversed his decision to support expanding Medicaid to nearly 1 million Floridians this week. Scott supported expansion for two years but suddenly reversed course, leaving those who cannot afford insurance or do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits in a serious bind.
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Considering sex comment cards, and why communication is so important
Apr. 9, 2015I’m going to let you in on a secret. Little black books are outdated in the digital age. So, for record-keeping purposes, I keep a Word document that lists all the people I’ve ever hooked up with.
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EDITORIALS
Bystander video important for accountability
Apr. 8, 2015One person’s decision to film a police altercation has radically altered the outcome of a police shooting in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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Republicans need to adapt or become irrelevant
Apr. 8, 2015If the events of last week told us anything, it’s that Republicans are behind the times. A great illustration of this was when Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana was shocked over the backlash of his state’s religious liberty law. Any casual political observer could see that Indiana was playing with fire.
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2016 Republican presidential platforms underway
Apr. 7, 2015We’re barely a quarter of the way through 2015, and yet 2016’s presidential race is already in its second wave of heating up.
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HB 583 discriminatory, based on archaic reasoning
Apr. 7, 2015Florida rarely ceases to surprise the nation with new levels of absurdity.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
UF rising — on the backs of graduate assistants
Apr. 7, 2015“Going up? So are we.”
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Budget cuts don’t belong in the grocery store
Apr. 7, 2015I’m sure you’ve been told not to bite the hand that feeds you, but what do you do if that hand is trying everything in its power to stop feeding you? What if it is, instead, reorganizing its fingers to point at you and then scrutinizing and stigmatizing you? That’s the predicament in which low-income Americans who rely on modern-day food stamps are finding themselves. In recent years, states across the country have desperately tried to strip low-income families of the food security federal support provides, and it needs to stop.
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EDITORIALS
Reflections on the UVA/Rolling Stone rape story report
Apr. 6, 2015It seems a chapter of one of the year’s most grueling stories — one that encompasses journalism, college life and sexual assault — has come to an end.
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Too much texting hinders real-life connections
Apr. 6, 2015This weekend I was watching “Catfish,” a popular MTV series that brings together couples who have never seen each other face to face. In the episode, 22-year-old Daisy expressed doubt over the legitimacy of a guy she met on Instagram and had been in touch with for the past few years.
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Indiana miscarriage case and feticide law unjust for convicted, setback to women's body rights
Apr. 6, 2015On March 30, Indiana native Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she miscarried her pregnancy.
