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.
Brought to you by the same state that found Casey Anthony not-guilty of murder, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Trayvon Martin case.
I am disturbed, saddened and ashamed at the barbaric killing of seven innocent people, including three children, in Toulouse, France, that occurred Tuesday.
On Friday’s episode of “Fox & Friends,” a morning news show on Fox News, “Geraldo At Large” host Geraldo Rivera fell victim to this urge to simplistically rationalize horrible events when he was discussing the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Today, the Supreme Court will begin to hear arguments for the most significant case since the likes of Gideon v. Wainwright, Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona in the battle over Obama’s health care reform.
Despite the pleas coming from both the left and right calling for further government intervention in the energy industry, green and alternative energy sources are still unable to compete with coal and natural gas.
According to a recent report by NPR, Florida is one of 19 states that permit public school officials to paddle students.
When the Florida legislature passed a bill requiring general drug testing for all state workers, our representatives and senators conveniently excluded themselves from this requirement.
Cammy Abernathy, the dean of engineering, held a town hall meeting on March 12 during which she welcomed discussion from the engineering faculty in regard to budget cuts requested from the provost’s office.
We often experience conflict between what laws or legal precedents dictate and what we know to be right and wrong.
As each Tuesday night comes and goes, quorum is barely established, with 46 senators and empty seats scattered throughout Room 282 of the Reitz Union where the Student Senate meets.
Since 1953, when the U.S. covertly overthrew democratically elected Iranian President Mohammad Mossadegh, relations between the U.S. and Iran can be described as troubling, to say the least.
I often hear conversations between two people seemingly so consumed by their own lives that they fail to be concerned with anything beyond themselves. And, all too often, I’m one of them.
As a college freshman and the oldest sibling in my family, everything in college life is new to me like a toddler who just arrived at Disney World for the first time. I see everything, the good and the bad, through rose-colored glasses.
On Monday, The Gainesville Sun chose not to run the day’s edition of Doonesbury, a popular comic strip by Garry Trudeau.
Unless you are still completely faded from your trip to Cancun, you’ve probably figured out by now that the guy who is mentioned in everyone’s Facebook statuses, Joseph Kony, is not a front-runner in the presidential election.
Last week in the White House, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed their mutual commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Few would have thought that in 2012 one of the biggest topics of debate would be birth control.
This column has high levels of Buddhism, so I apologize if I start to transcend meaning or pour you all a tad too much hippie Kool-Aid.
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