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Angry atheist; Should prayer be in public school's mural?
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 23, 2011The issue of religion in public schools is messy at best.
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Education needs comprehensive overhaul
By Travis Hornsby | Oct. 23, 2011While discussing affirmative action in class recently, a fellow student said the reason we need policies that give minorities preference in admissions to the best institutions of higher learning is because of educational inequality in primary and secondary schools.
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Darts and laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 20, 2011Well, it's almost the weekend here in Gainesville, but there's no football game at home or away. So what is there to do?
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Access to genome will advance medicine
By Akansha Mishra | Oct. 20, 2011The Human Genome Project is a mind-blowing development that has engaged scientists for the past 20 years. It can identify thousands of genes in human DNA and determine the sequences of 3 billion chemical base pairs.
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US policy has only worsened poverty
By J.D. Knee | Oct. 20, 2011Even though poverty has always existed, the seeds of the current division between the haves and the have-nots began about 60 years ago. Ever since the government's original attempt to solve the problem of poverty with programs, court decisions and amendments, the fixes only made things worse.
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Government should avoid corporatism
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 19, 2011On an unofficial Occupy Wall Street website, occupywallst.org, there is a "Proposed List of Demands."
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Reitz renovation would provide much-needed space
By Kycia Hosley | Oct. 19, 2011As a member of smaller student organization on campus, the Ambassadors of Civility and Ethics, the need for meeting space is always present. Rooms on campus are booked quickly and often my organization is forced to plan programs and events at makeshift locations.
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College education should still be respected
By Eric Brown | Oct. 19, 2011This a response to Nicholas Butler's column "Staying in school makes students unproductive."
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Getting tested regularly for HIV is responsible, empowering
By Lori Blanton | Oct. 19, 2011This year marks the 30-year anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS in the United States. Fortunately, we have made leaps and bounds in terms of awareness, prevention and treatment for those living with this disease.
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People have no excuse for bypassing little girl
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 19, 2011At some point during your college career, you might have heard a classmate or even a professor utter a phrase to the likes of "there is no such thing as right or wrong, just cultural differences."
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Quitting can sometimes be a good thing
By Nicholas Butler | Oct. 18, 2011From as early as we can remember, we are told, "Quitters never win. Winners never quit."
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Oregon takes steps in right direction
By Zachary Zalneraitis | Oct. 18, 2011Oregon's Court of Appeals recently overturned a long-standing rule that banned firearms on university campuses. This ruling is yet another data point on the trend toward restoring the rights of licensed, of-age individuals to defend themselves while pursuing their education.
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Ranked voting system would give more power to the voters
By Greg Allard | Oct. 18, 2011The protests of the "99 percent" occupying Wall Street and the rest of the country are inspiring because they showcase the frustrations of the American people - how they have been screwed over by the upward vortex of wealth-sucking via manufacturing and customer-service jobs going overseas, and the growing disparity between the income of your average CEO and your average worker (now 475-1 in America).
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Electric chair, firing squad are cruel
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 17, 2011Someone needs to remind Florida state Rep. Brad Drake, (R-Eucheeanna) that it's 2011 and not 1800.
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Testing prevents spread of HIV
By Daniela Abratt | Oct. 17, 2011Of the more than one million people living with HIV in the U.S., one in five does not know they have it.
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Vote to name UF most vegan-friendly
By Jared Misner | Oct. 17, 2011Energized from a powerhouse internship during the summer of 2010 at the largest animal rights organization in the world, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), I had this crazy idea that I could change the world one plate at a time.
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Clogging the system; State mandatory minimums cram jails
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 16, 2011In our editorial Oct.10, we discussed the problems with federal "mandatory minimum" laws.
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Why the impoverished stay impoverished
By Travis Hornsby | Oct. 16, 2011Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to rising income inequality in the U.S., especially among the top 1 percent of income earners. The reason for this fact is clear: Globalization and mass media have increased the returns to productivity, and the market has rewarded these people accordingly.
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America must take pragmatic approach with China in future
By Guillermo R. Pradieu | Oct. 16, 2011Americans rarely ever pay heed to international celebrations that honor the establishment of a foreign nation. On Oct. 9, the People's Republic of China celebrated the centennial of the 1911 Chinese Revolution. Aside the cacophony of other pressing matters, this event signifies three important issues all Americans should be concerned with: (1) the upcoming Fifth Generation of leadership, (2) potential foreign and economic issues and (3) the future of China.
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Protesters need to understand system in order to make changes
By Matt Colbert | Oct. 16, 2011Alex Guilmartin made a good point in his Thursday column, lamenting the fact that the loud protests of the Occupy Wall Street movement are full of sound and fury yet signify nothing.
