A few weeks ago, practically everyone in my major flipped out when the news story broke that employers were asking applicants for their Facebook login information.
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President Obama is right to claim that the Republican Party has been “radical” and “extremist” in its approach to deficit reduction. I welcome his refreshingly blunt rhetoric.
The next time the Alligator jumps to conclusions based on police reports, think again.
Shame on Tyler Jett and the Alligator for publishing “Resident charged with shaking ‘his wee-wee’” on April 6. I believe this article exhibits extreme bias.
It’s that time of the year when everyone’s asking about summer plans. By now, we all spew that scripted answer — a summer job, studying abroad, going back home or even staying in Gainesville. Then there’s perhaps the most visible breed: those who’ve snagged a prestigious summer internship.
A report by the Florida Department of Corrections showed that 26.1 percent of all prisoners admitted for the fiscal year 2010-2011 were incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, the most common type of offense for the year.
Last week, the leader of a neo-Nazi group claimed its members were conducting armed patrols of Sanford, Fla., where Trayvon Martin was shot.
Most of us enter college with the intention to change society for the better.
This month, Mitt Romney continued the disturbing and growing trend of attacking higher education when he said that President Barack Obama “spent too much time at Harvard.”
I am appalled at the racism that exists in the UF Student Senate.
In 1907, Charles Evans Hughes, New York governor and eventual chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, said, “The judiciary is the safeguard of liberty ... under the Constitution.”
Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more colloquially known as Obamacare. Now President Obama is using his office to inappropriately sway the court’s eventual ruling.
A new poll by Harris Interactive/HealthDay presents some pretty troubling findings.
I know many of you are disappointed you did not win the $640 million Mega Millions jackpot over the weekend. Dreams of never working again, living the high life and naming UF after yourself are gone forever.
Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Irish political theorist, once said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
While we have been hearing news about Trayvon Martin, another shooting that was arguably just as troublesome has been virtually ignored by the media.
Facebook is essentially about two fundamental things: jealousy and exhibition.
In the age of YouTube and citizen journalism, questions have emerged about whether ordinary citizens are legally able to film or photograph on-duty police officers during events like traffic stops and arrests.
The limits of what constitutes a racist act are too liberally defined today. With a heightened sensitivity to racial inequality, we’ve become overzealous when classifying things as racist.
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