This column is a response to a guest column published in the Alligator: “Palestinians are people with a voice”
Stanley Kubrick was one of the most evocative and accomplished directors in history. Even his worst movies were great, and his best movies pushed filmmaking into territory that was previously unthinkable. Even in death, he continues to influence directors and writers, and people still debate what his films mean to this day. He also secretly directed the Apollo 11 moon landing.
After living in Gainesville for three months, I can say without equivocation that the bus system here is an utter failure. I cannot count how many times the bus drivers and the website have failed me. Apparently, I live in a Bermuda Triangle of bus scheduling. One morning a particular bus comes at 8:40. Another, it’s not there until 9:05 a.m. How could a schedule have a 25-minute window of error? When their website tells me I have 15 minutes to get to my stop, that means the bus will fly by in five with me standing 10 yards away and the driver being too rude to wait for me. Their refusal to pick up customers, I feel, has little to do with their desire to follow the letter of some rule. Something has to change with this system.
A strange set of events unfolded last week. In just hours, all 1,700 tickets were taken. The next day, an eager audience packed the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts to listen to the words of a frail 84-year-old speaker. Who was this old geezer?
Tuesday, we ran a story about a group of freshmen boys — of course — whose pranks at Broward Hall prompted the installment of surveillance cameras on their floor.
If you had to make the unfortunate trek through Turlington Plaza last week, chances are you caught an eyeful of the Created Equal movement’s aborted fetus posters and stand-ups lining the walkways. The “graphic images ahead” signs weren’t quite emphatic enough to prepare us for what was there.
I recently became an avid biker after a church friend gave me a bike. I used to bike everywhere on campus and in town when I was a University of Florida student in the 1970s. Some streets around town don’t even have a bike lane.
I just would like to say great job for having Michael Beato write a weekly column for the Alligator.
With the government shutdown behind us, the media are declaring winners and losers. No matter what poll or TV station you turn to, there always seems to be universal disapproval for the House Tea Party Caucus.
One day, our great-great-great grandchildren will laugh at our Dark-Ages digital technology — most likely while cruising around on jet packs and buying Google Glasses out of vending machines. They’ll probably speak of the stalled https://www.healthcare.gov/ website the same way we speak of rotary telephones and dial-up Internet.
While U.S. policies aren’t anywhere near perfect, they are progressive in comparison to situations abroad.
This week, a scientific report caused national distress when it revealed Oreos are almost as addictive as cocaine.
In 2009, testifying in front of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, then-Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) insisted he finds it hard to argue for legislation that bans discrimination. He commented it was hard not because he in anyway condones discrimination, but rather that it was hard due to nondiscrimination being so self-evident.
Early Thursday morning, President Barack Obama signed a bill that reopened the federal government and avoided a default on our nation’s debts. Yet again, a manufactured crisis was solved, and our elected officials can rest easy.
In response to the Alligator’s editorial “Get your own fries with that” on Oct. 17:
As an avid movie enthusiast, I seized the opportunity last weekend to watch “Captain Phillips,” the two-hour account of the 2009 hijacking of the USS Maersk Alabama by Somali Pirates.
The last wave of midterms has finally rolled on, so now it’s time to focus on the important stuff: Halloween costumes and tomorrow’s game against Missouri. But first, a PSA: To all you overzealous autumn-lovers wearing sweaters and scarves, cease and desist. If you keep wearing sweaters during 89-degree weather like today, you WILL get heat stroke. And die.
The phrase “fast-food worker” stirs up images of high school kids working an after-school job at Taco Bell to save up for college or a car. However, Marc Doussard, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who co-authored a recent study on fast-food workers who receive public assistance, said this is not the case.
“If God is so caring and great, why is there suffering in life?”
Madonna is officially banned from the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
Solutions by The State News
