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Dealing with obnoxious neighbors as simple as F-A-P
By Chip Skambis | Jan. 22, 2012Neighbors can be as annoying as cheapskates who sneak into churches to do laundry rather than go to a laundromat.
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Capitalism best policy to eliminate poverty
By Travis Hornsby | Jan. 22, 2012Friday night at the Graham Center for Public Policy, talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton academic Cornel West passionately advocated for the poor and disenfranchised.
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Bad form: Sloppy reporting mars Paterno's death
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 22, 2012Former head coach of Penn State's football team Joe Paterno passed away at the age of 85.
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Darts & laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 19, 2012If you haven't noticed, it's Hollywood awards show season, and the stars are coming out.
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MLK Day is more than a day off
By Roberta Roberts | Jan. 19, 2012While others are living a dream, there are millions of people living a labor and sexually exploited nightmare in the United States of America.
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Republicans may widen class divide by only working for wealthy
Jan. 18, 2012Only a couple weeks in, the Republican presidential primaries have already given us all we've come to expect from the GOP: baseless attacks and conservative talking points.
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Unite Party made no improvements on SG election codes
By Carly Wilson | Jan. 18, 2012Last Tuesday, the Unite Party engaged in some of the most disgusting, blatantly corrupt behavior I have seen in my time in Senate.
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Forcing the hand: Let employers require high school diplomas
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 17, 2012Employers around the country have become concerned about a letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that says requiring a high school diploma for certain job positions could violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Homesickness shows one's strength
By Luke Bailey | Jan. 17, 2012We have made it to the second week of the spring semester.
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Internet ire: Congress should kill ‘anti-piracy' bill
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 16, 2012It appears as though one widely unpopular piece of legislation, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) might be killed before the House of Representatives can bring it to a vote.
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Fast food disassociates us from nature
By Dyllan Furness | Jan. 16, 2012It seems characteristic of man, today more than ever, to move further away from his natural self with each notch of progress added to his belt.
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Interior design requires licensing
By Clarissa Carr | Jan. 16, 2012In response to the editorial addressing interior design licensing, the students of UF's Department of Interior Design would like to have the opportunity to respond to the many misconceptions about the profession put forth.
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Company should stand up to Florida group's racist views
By Umair Asghar | Jan. 12, 2012On Dec. 10, 2011, Lowe's Companies, Inc. decided to pull its advertisements from TLC's "All-American Muslim."
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Darts and laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 12, 2012If you're reading this, congratulations! You made it through the first week of the semester.
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Join us: Alligator to hold open house Friday
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 11, 2012The time has come again for your friendly neighborhood Alligator to ask for help.
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Romney's conservatism questionable
By Guillermo R. Pradieu | Jan. 11, 2012How is it that an individual such as Mitt Romney could not have had better luck as a presidential candidate and still struggle?
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More work needs to be done for homeless
By Pat Fitzpatrick | Jan. 11, 2012This letter is in response to Adrianna Paidas' article about the requirement for police clearance imposed on the poor and homeless to be allowed to use services at St. Francis House homeless shelter and dining hall. This requirement was imposed at the same time the 130 meal limit ordinance was enacted, but the police clearance requirement was not enforced until the meal limit was lifted. For two and a half years, they were forced to turn away thousands of hungry people.
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Editorial about interior design licensing was misinformed
By Paige Walker | Jan. 11, 2012I am very disappointed to read the misinformed article regarding interior design. As someone who works for Shands in the facilities development department I can attest to the importance of an educated and licensed interior designer for commercial designs. The licensing laws have nothing to do with residential design; please check the facts before publishing.
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Chilling effect: College paper adviser didn't deserve firing
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 10, 2012In college, students have many opportunities to practice a lot of the same things they would be doing in the real world.
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Libertarianism can't help conservativism
By Luke Bailey | Jan. 10, 2012As the votes from the Iowa Republican caucus began to roll in a week ago, most of the nation's viewers were riveted by the small, fluctuating margin between Rick Santorum and the eventual winner, Mitt Romney.
