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Darts and Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 7, 2011Is that “The Final Countdown” we hear playing?
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Accent drops ball on school speakers this year
By Alex Kaufman | Apr. 7, 2011Accent has a fantastic history of bringing good speakers to UF. A look through past speakers on Accent’s website has names of historic figures who have shaped history and taken their time (and UF’s money) to speak in this middle-of-nowhere place of Gainesville. The self-stated goal of Accent is to bring “prominent, controversial and influential speakers” to UF. Since I have been here, the likes of Jack Kevorkian, John Kerry (see tazing incident in school history), the Mythbusters, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Mike Rowe and John Legend have all made appearances. I can tell people I’ve heard Dr. Jack speak his crazy-ass mind after he got out of jail for euthanizing all those people or that I was there when that Meyer kid made a national storm by being a fool.
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Alligator apology disingenuous
By Anthony Garcia | Apr. 7, 2011Inaccuracies and all, Tuesday’s feature about a certain math whiz did not bother me. As a daily reader, I have come to expect a certain level of flawed reporting, sensationalism and biases from your crack team at the Alligator. That, coupled with the already innocuous nature of a story about a smart student attending a university, shocking as that may be, elicited little more than a shrug from me.
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Local elections important for students
By Chad Mohammed | Apr. 6, 2011“All politics are local.” This time-tested adage never has been truer. On Tuesday, the runoff elections for Districts 2 and 3 will take place. Running in District 2, which encompasses the northwest section of the city, is incumbent Lauren Poe. Running in District 3 is Susan Bottcher. District 3 spans the southwestern sector of the city from the western half of campus all the way to I-75.
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OutFoxed
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 6, 2011Somewhere, Jon Stewart is mourning the death of an impression.
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Grinding Halt: Shutdown consequences can teach a lesson
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 6, 2011The cogs on the machine that is the federal government are about to grind to a halt. The shutdown is nearly at hand, and we have seen nothing to convince us that the two parties are willing to compromise on their views of the budget. So what is going to be put on hold?
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Criticism of Coach Butler’s methods without merit
By Gene Ryan | Apr. 6, 2011Regarding the recent articles in the Alligator which, on balance, could only be considered as highly critical of your coaching job done by Lady Gators basketball coach Amanda Butler, my wife and I are longtime Gator fans, members of the Boosters Club and never miss a home game.
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Vouching For It; Budget proposal won’t solve Medicare problems
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 5, 2011Threatening the sacred cow carries dire consequences for politicians.
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Sounding the Alarm
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 5, 2011We realized years ago that constant noise affects our mental health. It was only recently, however, that the World Health Organization published a report on the physical fallout of living in a loud atmosphere. This goes beyond hearing implications; WHO even went as far as to point to heart problems that may derive from coping with noises our bodies weren’t meant to handle.
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Columnist’s case against baseball overlooks prices, youth involvement
By Sarah Calise | Apr. 5, 2011In response to Laura Ellermeyer’s Tuesday column on Major League Baseball’s dwindling popularity: While I absolutely agree with Laura on the grounds of the declining popularity of baseball, she has gotten many of the reasons wrong.
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Football ticket price increase harms cash-strapped students
By Alex Kaufman | Apr. 5, 2011I am not a fan of the student ticket price increase for football. Not for the amount, but for the principle.
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COLUMNS
Princess movies hurting young girls
By Wesley Campbell | Apr. 5, 2011Disney movies teach awful lessons to children. They have ruined entire generations of Americans’ concepts of love, happiness and the pursuit thereof.
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Baseball waning as national pastime
By Laura Ellermeyer | Apr. 4, 2011Many beautiful things accompany the emergence of spring. Flowers explode, birds rejoice and a long-awaited end of the school year looms closer. But for any red-blooded American, these trivialities are just minor blips on the radar as the arrival of spring means only one thing: baseball.
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Merit-pay plan rewards growth
By Danny Beaulieu | Apr. 4, 2011I would like to respond to a portion of Chad Mohammed’s Thursday column in which he said, “The merit-pay plan is flawed and simply will reward teachers for teaching in areas with students of higher socioeconomic status and punish those who teach students of lower socioeconomic standings.”
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Equalizing via E-books
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 4, 2011Two bills working their way through our state legislature are aimed at bringing public schools into the digital age. They would either require 50 percent of materials spending to go toward digital books and e-readers, as in the Florida House’s version of the bill, or test the waters with certain schools investing in said technology.
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Time Out: Students shouldn’t complain about price
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 4, 2011As many of you have discovered, the price for student season tickets to Gators football games has increased for the 2011 season. The price has jumped from $70 to $105, an increase of 50 percent that has some students reeling. But before you complain about the change, keep a few things in mind.
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American exceptionalism exceptional
By Zack Smith | Apr. 3, 2011Over the past few weeks, the concept of “American exceptionalism” has dominated the airwaves.
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Gag Order: Consequences of pastor’s actions warrant comment
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 3, 2011Let us apologize for going back on our word.
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Both sides should seek forgiveness for murders
By Joe Bialek Cleveland | Apr. 3, 2011This letter is in response to the articles covering the deadly protest in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, which appear to be a result of the antics of the Dove World Outreach Center’s Terry Jones.
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Players’ complaints only sour grapes
By Jane Houston UF faculty | Mar. 31, 2011I read Matt Watts’ diatribe about our esteemed women’s basketball head coach Amanda Butler in Thursday’s paper.
