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We Heart the OED
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 28, 2011It may come as a surprise, but we aren’t language purists.
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Florida House bills would attack women’s right to choose
By Kendra Vincent | Mar. 28, 2011Women’s rights are under attack again.
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Spelling worsened by technology crutch
By Laura Ellermeyer | Mar. 28, 2011Predictive text technology is a wonderful thing. If you know only a few letters or the beginning of a word, most smartphones will automatically suggest multiple options for what you were looking for.
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Living Memory: Ferraro’s impact on U.S. politics still felt
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 27, 2011You don’t have to be a woman to appreciate the advances Geraldine Ferraro made in her 1984 shot at the vice presidency. After her death on Saturday, we’ve been realizing that she, along with others of her ilk, have been changing our nation far more than the requisite history-class mention would have us think.
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Pound Foolish
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 27, 2011With one in 17 of us living with a serious mental illness, it should raise some eyebrows when our state decides to cut all funding to adult mental health services.
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Florida, other states should elect judges
By Zack Smith | Mar. 27, 2011It’s a basic tenant of American society that public-policy makers are held accountable for their decisions by an informed electorate.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
US government wrong to turn a blind eye to Bahraini massacre
By Dr. Aunali S. Khaku | Mar. 27, 2011I am writing to express my strong condemnation of the current massacre being perpetrated against the Bahraini people by Bahraini, Emirati and Saudi armed forces with tacit approval of our government.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 24, 2011Spring‘s officially underway, Gators. With Sunday evening’s equinox in the books, we’re prepared to enjoy our weekend or two with decent weather before our sidewalks turn into lava flows.
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Obama negatively reshaping America
By Bob Minchin | Mar. 24, 2011As President Obama’s approval ratings continue to fall and he amasses more enemies on both sides of the aisle in response to his invasion of Libya, I am reminded of perhaps the most telling and haunting moment of the 2008 presidential election coverage.
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Open Books
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 23, 2011It looks like we won’t be able to park ourselves in front of our computer and read whatever books we feel like for days on end. That’s what we had planned if Google got its way and started to fulfill its goal of scanning all the books the world has to offer.
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Lack of funds could prove disastrous
By Chad Mohammad | Mar. 23, 2011The devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck Japan earlier this month reminded us all of the ever-present danger of natural disasters and, more importantly, of the need for us to be as well prepared for them as possible — both as a society and as individuals.
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Religion can impede scientific progress
By Doug Martin | Mar. 22, 2011As a biochemistry student at UF, I found Zack Smith’s opinion column Monday disheartening.
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Sobered Up: Welfare drug tests not beneficial for Florida
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 22, 2011The idea of screening welfare candidates and recipients for drugs didn’t come out of the blue. Gov. Rick Scott hinted at it during his campaign. In fact, it was one of the few things we thought Scott was on the right track with.
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People should take more honest photos
By Wesley Campbell | Mar. 22, 2011Have you ever seen one of those photo montages that show someone’s face holding the same angle and expression relentlessly, regardless of where and when the photo was taken?
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With Honor: Gator fans should avoid religious jabs
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 21, 2011After a weekend that saw numerous powerhouses get smacked down by teams ranging from the Spiders to the “whointhehell?”, the Gators lived up to expectations and their inflated seeding, pounding the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos to within an inch of their lives before sliding by UCLA and into the Sweet 16 (or the “fourth round” for those unwilling to infringe on new tradition grounded in irrationality.)
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General education distracts from major
By Laura Ellermeyer | Mar. 21, 2011It sometimes seems that high school curricula and “When am I ever gonna use this crap?” go hand in hand. Elective requirements in high school may seem like funny time wasters (I carried a fake baby around for a week and loved every second of it), but as we neared graduation, we looked forward to the end of electives and fixed our gazes on more serious coursework that was actually relevant to a topic and career we chose.
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Columnist’s rhetoric does little to defend bill
By Chad Kimes | Mar. 21, 2011The rhetoric used by Zack Smith in Monday’s column is overused and deceptive. Sadly, however, it tends to work. He starts by
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Evolution constant subject of critical evaluation
By Bill Hirschi | Mar. 21, 2011Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published in 1859, and the theory that life on Earth is in a constant state of evolution was around even before that. What columnist Zack Smith seems unable to grasp is the fact that the theory of evolution has, in fact, been subject to “critical analysis” for 150 years and has been proven every time.
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Action in Iraq, Libya fundamentally different
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN< | Mar. 21, 2011The current military action in Libya is not the same as the Iraq War. Plain and simple. In 2002 and 2003, the United States cooked up a reason to go to war based on faulty intelligence and post-9/11 hysteria. The U.S. went to the U.N., couldn’t get a military resolution, and we invaded Iraq anyway. In Libya’s case, the U.S. and our allies are riding with our allies in NATO on the back of a U.N. Security Council resolution.
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Critical analysis of evolution needed
By Zack Smith | Mar. 20, 2011Nearly everyone agrees that critical thinking is a skill essential for children to develop as early as possible.
