In “Teenage pregnancy not so glamorous,” Anita Babbitt argues that abstinence-only sex education is to blame for higher teen pregnancy rates.
Everyone has someone they’d love to bring down a notch. There’s always that guy in class who’s a little too smug in his answers, that coworker with her holier-than-thou attitude.
Ever notice how you have all the right opinions? Why don’t more people think like you? Think back to when you were young, and imagine a situation where you and your fellow classmates were all “competing” to be the best at something. How about the most interesting show-and-tell piece? We’ll go with that.
Laura Ellermeyer, author of Tuesday’s tutoring column, could have gone to TA sessions for free to prepare for the exam. ECO 2013 has TAs available seven periods a day, five days a week. I’m not sure if practice tests were made available last semester. They usually are and are by far the best way to prepare for an exam.
Last week, the Alligator learned of an event being planned by the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville. We will not dignify the event by discussing it in this publication.
His dream still rings true, but, oddly enough, the day we take to celebrate it appears to undermine Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision.
TutoringZone is God, right?
As drop/add came to an end and we all settled into our spring classes, we got to enjoy the time-honored tradition of seeing our tuition bill show its sinister face.
During a week littered with stories of tragedy, we’ve had to admit the hassle of drop/add period doesn’t warrant all our usual complaining.
Wikipedia is celebrating its 10th birthday Saturday, and, fellow students, what would we ever do without it?
In 1996, Sheryl Crow opined on the human condition: “If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?”
In the fall of 1962, when the United States and the USSR stood inches away from the brink of an international blood-letting, word reached the Kennedy administration that the hard-line Soviet government did not desire to lead the world hand-in-hand into the furnace. In a flex of diplomatic bravado, Secretary of State Dean Rusk boasted: “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked.”
I just dropped the book-bill bomb on my parents. Needless to say, warnings of “you better actually read these” followed. Of course I will, Mom and Dad … maybe.
A year later, some progress has been made. There’s still a long way to go, however, in rebuilding the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Maybe there are superheroes among us.
Picture this scene. It’s an ungodly hot September day and our Florida Gators football team take the field to deliver their traditional, early-season Charles Sumner-style canning of a non-conference powerhouse St. Cecilia’s School of the Blind and Anorexic.
The Alligator seems to have lost its way as a news source.
A lot of people have been slagging Gov. Rick Scott for his extravagant inauguration festivities last Tuesday.
“I might not even vote for it myself.”
While Chad Kimes’ vision for a brave new world certainly is breathtaking, his call for “forced abortions” is not a modest proposal.
Solutions by The State News
