Sports
Column: UF loss brings familiar misery
By GREG LUCA | Mar. 25, 2012Kenny Boynton carried the painful memories for a year, all the while waiting for this shot.
Opinion
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Irrational Fears: Geraldo’s argument highlights faulty logic
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 25, 2012On 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.
Opinion
Obamacare may be unconstitutional
By Travis Hornsby | Mar. 25, 2012Today, 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.
Opinion
Alternative energy costly, inefficient
By Thomas Ryan | Mar. 25, 2012Despite 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.
Sports
Column: After impressive tourney run, Beal should be one and done
By GREG LUCA | Mar. 22, 2012Florida fans need to cherish every moment of this NCAA Tournament run, because it’s the last time they’ll see Brad Beal in a Gators uniform.
Opinion
Public Paddlings: Corporal punishment allowed in Florida
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 21, 2012According to a recent report by NPR, Florida is one of 19 states that permit public school officials to paddle students.
Opinion
Mandated drug tests unconstitutional per Supreme Court precedent
By Dan Pressnell | Mar. 21, 2012When the Florida legislature passed a bill requiring general drug testing for all state workers, our representatives and senators conveniently excluded themselves from this requirement.
Opinion
Graduate assistants are not a 'cost'
By Patrick McHenry | Mar. 21, 2012Cammy 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.
Opinion
Marketplace of Ideas: High school students deserve free speech
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 20, 2012We often experience conflict between what laws or legal precedents dictate and what we know to be right and wrong.
Opinion
Students should come to Student Senate meetings
By Jenna Goldman | Mar. 20, 2012As 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.
Opinion
Iranian government should not be trusted with power of having nuclear weapons
By Richard Vieira | Mar. 20, 2012Since 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.
Opinion
Kony 2012 movement garners empty support
By Dyllan Furness | Mar. 19, 2012I 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.
Opinion
Revival of holidays a sign we’re not ready to give up on fun
By Colleen Wright | Mar. 19, 2012As 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.
Sports
Florida can't take dangerous Norfolk State lightly
By GREG LUCA | Mar. 16, 2012OMAHA, Neb. — After Florida finished its demolition of Virginia, the identity of the Gators next opponent seemed to be a foregone conclusion.
Sports
Annual Florida-Florida State rivalry should be weekend series
By TOM GREEN | Mar. 13, 2012Kevin O’Sullivan knows what Gators fans are interested in.
Sports
The Rally: Should expectations be tempered for this year’s Big Dance?
By GREG LUCA | Mar. 12, 2012GREG: Despite what the recent win-loss record suggests, Florida is entering the NCAA Tournament on a high note.
Opinion
Fear Factor: Gainesville Sun too sensitive about cartoon
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 12, 2012On Monday, The Gainesville Sun chose not to run the day’s edition of Doonesbury, a popular comic strip by Garry Trudeau.
Opinion
Letters to Congress can raise awareness
By Colleen Wright | Mar. 12, 2012Unless 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.
Opinion
America should support Israel’s right to self-defense
By Dan DiMatteo | Mar. 12, 2012Last 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.
Opinion
Issues of Incentive: Insurance problem root of birth control debate
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 11, 2012Few would have thought that in 2012 one of the biggest topics of debate would be birth control.
